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Kenora's Vanair Hovercraft makes a durable, all-weather aluminium craft that's often used as a water taxi in place of ferries.
Kenora’s Vanair Hovercraft knows their niche

Dave Van Dam isn’t one given to self-promotion.

The owner of Vanair Hovercraft doesn’t spend a lot of money on mass marketing and advertising his air-cushioned vehicles.

Transportation News

Parry Sound airport expands
The managers of the Parry Sound Area Municipal Airport could be the poster boys for how small Canadian airports can survive and thrive. 
CentrePort looks at partnership opportunities
Most of Winnipeg’s major roads are a tangle of construction this summer.The biggest is a $212-million expressway underway in the city’s northwest corner that will connect the 20,000 acres of Canada’s first inland port with James Richardson International Airport. 
Researchers examine underground mining wheel rims
A University of Windsor engineer is applying his automotive expertise to make one aspect of underground mining safer.Bill Altenhof, a mechanical engineering professor, is collaborating with North Bay’s Workplace Safety North, to investigate how wheel rim assembly in mining vehicles can fail.
Timmins digs in to diversify
The dark clouds sitting over the City of Timmins following the closure of Xstrata’s Kidd Creek Metallurgical site are beginning to lift as officials look for ways to diversify the local economy.
• Kenora’s Vanair Hovercraft knows their niche
• Thunder Bay's Bombardier to make Toronto trams
• Study begins on James Bay railroad
• Can CentrePort's ripple effect reach Thunder Bay?
• North Bay seeks to create business-aerospace park
• Paving the way from Kenora to Manitoba
• North Bay loses Dornier to Quebec
• New boss for Ontario Northland
• Sudbury transportation firm expands
• Short winter road season threatens Far North communities


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Thunder Bay to host Northern Ontario Business Awards
Tickets are still available for the Northern Ontario Business Awards set for Thunder Bay this fall.The 24th annual event, celebrating the region's best and brightest in business, is slated for Oct. 7 at Thunder Bay's Victoria Inn. 
Energy minister inspects progress on Mattagami dams
 Ontario Energy Minister Brad Duguid and Ontario Power Generation president Tom Mitchell were in the Far North in late August, inspecting progress on hydroelectric dam construction on the Lower Mattagami River. 
First Nickel raising money for Sudbury mine expansion
With a new labour deal in place, Sudbury's First Nickel Inc. is on the prowl for money to expand its Lockerby Mine.The company announced Aug. 25 that it has entered into an engagement letter to appoint the Canadian branch of Société Générale (SocGen) and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) to act as the lead arrangers for a senior secured project facillity loan of up to $30 million. 
Fraser survey ranks Ontario 20th globally as favourable mining jurisdiction
Ontario made few strides toward reaching elite status in the Fraser Institute's Survey of Mining Companies.The British Columbia public policy think-tank released a mid-year update in August, in which Ontario moved up one spot to 20th place. 
Ontario ministers long on talk, short on deliverables, say chiefs
A group of First Nation chiefs want money from the Ontario government to begin reparing their communities for mine development in the Ring of Fire.
Solar company beams in Sudbury
A Toronto solar company is setting up operations in Sudbury to offer “turnkey” solar power solutions for Northern Ontario clients.
Kirkland Lake gold diggers expand relationship
An exploration partnership between Kirkland Lake Gold and Queenston Mining has grown closer. The two companies are expanding their joint venture program in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt of northeastern Ontario with some new wrinkles in their exploration plan. 
Let the biomass conversion begin
The Ontario government has given the official green light to begin converting the Atikokan Generating Station from burning coal to biomass. 
Ring of Fire junior releases resource estimate
Probe Mines has released an initial mineral resource estimate for its Black Creek chromite deposit at McFauld's Lake in the James Bay lowlands.
Highway contracts awarded in northeastern Ontario
Highway improvements are being made between Sudbury and North Bay as the Ontario government has announced the awarding of road improvement contracts.