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FedNor carpet bombs North with cash

With a federal election looming, Industry Minister Tony Clement was busy delivering cheques from Kenora to sunny Sunridge prior to a non-confidence vote in Parliament. More than $1.
Northern Ontario Business Staff

With a federal election looming, Industry Minister Tony Clement was busy delivering cheques from Kenora to sunny Sunridge prior to a non-confidence vote in Parliament.

More than $1.4 million landed in the Kenora area, including $500,000 earmarked for Red Lake to expand parking at its Balmertown airport and to extend a service road through its industrial park. Kingfisher Lake First Nation received $250,000 to build a small business centre.

Thunder Bay's PARO Centre for Women's Enterprise grabbed $334,585 to pilot a francophone women's entrepreneur network across Northern Ontario.

The La Cooperative du regroupement des organismes francophones de Thunder Bay Inc. received $83,000 to develop a francophone business and service centre.

The Timmins-James Bay area gets $2.1 million, including $625,000 to NEOnet to improve e-business and ICT services in the region.

Sault Ste. Marie's St. Marys Paper received $180,000 to do a business assessment for capital upgrades and to do market and product develoment research.

The Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre is using $108,750 for a Northern Ontario pavilion at the Ontario Centres of Excellence Discovery Conference to be held in Toronto in May.

Six communities between Wawa and Manitoulin Island collectively grabbed in $1.9 million.
Tourism development on Manitoulin received a $453,000 boost for its Great Spirit Circle Trail and Gore Bay received $183,600 to convert a waterfront building into an artisans gallery.

The Town of Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands got $400,000 for the third phase of its waterfront development and the Town of Blind River pocketed $499,547 to expand its industrial park with new water services and road access.

Nipissing First Nation is using $500,000 for a small business centre while the City of North Bay receives $250,000 for an industrial park development.

FedNor also airdropped $22,500 into South River for a development plan for the South River Sunridge Airport to identify business opportunities.

A total of $6.8 million went out of Community Development Corporation across Northern Ontario for programs to support small- and medium-sized business.