Around the North

The Thunder Bay Community Economic Development Commission is hosting a free seminar on brownfield reclamation, Nov. 10.

The head of Essar Steel Algoma's largest union is scolding Sault Ste. Marie Mayor John Rowswell for publicly weighing into the fray over a three-month strike at Vale Inco's nickel operation in Sudbury.

Kenora-Rainy River NDP MPP Howard Hampton isn't impressed with the McGuinty government giving Thunder Bay's Buchanan Group of Companies more than $80 million in provincial assistance to the struggling forestry company while laid-off employees are lef

John Weaver has resigned from AbitibiBowater's board of directors. A Nov. 2 company press release cities “personal reasons” for his Oct. 31 departure.

A national conversation group is applauding the Ontario government's plan to remove more land inside Algonquin Provincial Park from logging.

The housing market is already beginning to recover, a trend which will continue strongly into 2010, according to the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)’s fourth-quarter housing market outlook.

The city’s two major mining houses have committed a combined total of $2.25 million to support ecological recover at the City of Greater Sudbury through the municipality’s new Biodiversity Action Plan.

Apollo Gold Corporation (TSX: APG) continues to encounter mineralization on its Grey Fox property, which sits 3.5 kilometres south of its Timmins-area, producing Black Fox open pit mine.

Major provincial tax reforms such as the new harmonized sales tax (HST) and the proposed corporate income tax cuts will have a “profound impact” on Ontario’s business competitiveness, according to a report by economist and tax expert Jack Mintz.

Shareholders of West Timmins Mining Inc. (TSX: WTM) have voted 98 per cent in favour of a merger with Lake Shore Gold Corp. (TSX: LSG), folding West Timmins staff and assets under the Lake Shore tent.