Around the North

Sudbury MPP Rick Bartolucci was just one of the prominent figures included in Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's Aug. 18 cabinet rejig, which saw seven shifts at the top table.

Canadian businessman Seymour Schulich has donated $1.5 million to name a new campus library shared by Canadore College and Nipissing University after former Ontario Premier and North Bay native Mike Harris.

FedNor has withdrawn funding support for regional trade and export advisory program, Trade Northern Ontario.

The Town of Espanola has secured a new residential and industrial development with the Kilganan Group Ltd. of Little Current. Beginning Aug. 15, the Manitoulin Island developer begins construction of 19 residential lots in the town's centre.

A Thunder Bay mining conference geared to attract mining suppliers to work in the James Bay Ring of Fire has been cancelled.

A First Nation value-added forestry company has started construction of a wood processing facility in northwestern Ontario. Two Feather Forest Products LP announced Aug.

As it sits on the cusp of commercial production at its flagship Timmins Mine, Lake Shore Gold Corp. has updated the markets on its financial operating results for the second quarter of 2010. With $69.

GoldTrain Resources Inc., a Toronto-based gold and base metal exploration firm, has expanded its holdings in the Sudbury mining camp, located northeast of the city.

The Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities (FONOM) has named Al Spacek, mayor of the Town of Kapuskasing, as its new president, who was unanimously acclaimed at a board meeting held July 16.

A Kenora wood products company has received $1.2 million from the province to buy, renovate and equip an industrial building to make modular homes for First Nation communities.