Around the North

Porter Airlines broke several records through the month of May, posting increases in passenger numbers, available seat miles, and revenue passenger miles, marking the highest numbers in the airline's history.

Work has begun on the next stage of construction at Finlandia Village in Sudbury, with a $6.9-million infusion of funds to build 61 one- and two-bedroom units in a new supportive housing complex.

A former Sudbury resident has won a top honour from the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM).

North American Nickel is undertaking geophysical surveying at its flagship property, Post Creek in Sudbury. The InfiniTEM ground surveying will be done by Abitibi Geophysics and will take eight days to complete.

A Northern Ontario student has received special mention at the So You Think You Know Mining video creation contest. Leah Gosselin from Ecole Secondaire Catholique Theriault in Timmins shared the Best Runner-Up prize with Ray Xue from Don Mills C.I.

Pat Lang, president of Confederation College in Thunder Bay, has received the Distinguished Service Award from the President's Leadership Network. The award was given at the Association of Canadian Colleges conference in Edmonton last week.

Throughout the month of June, the province is increasing its inspections at surface diamond drill operations in the North.

Wallbridge Mining Company has completed a non-brokered private placement of 3.8 million flow-through common shares of the company at 26 cents a share, raising aggregate gross proceeds of $990,100.

Manitoulin Island is the recipient of a $2.7-million provincial windfall, which will be distributed Island-wide to seven different projects. The island, located southwest of Sudbury, will receive $2.

A former senior cabinet minister in the McGuinty government is lobbying for a northwestern Ontario community to land a Ring of Fire ferrochrome processing plant.