Around the North

Growing demand for space in Collège Boréal's electrical practices and electrical engineering technician programs has prompted the school to open another program section, increasing capacity by 33 per cent.

Less than a year after having moved into its new Innovation and Commercialization Centre last winter, the Northern Centre for Advanced Technology (NORCAT) is already adding 5,000 square feet to accommodate three companies.

The Kirkland Lake gold camp continues to be a hotbed of activity as Queenston Mining Inc. and Newstrike Resources Ltd. continue to add a series of claims to their Commodore joint venture.

Laurentian University is introducing two well-known Sudbury figures, Fred Stanford and Conway Fraser, as its first executives-in-residence.

Public commenting for the Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) aspect of the Sudbury Soils Study will officially close on midnight, Sept. 4, 2009, five months after findings were first released.

A big chunk of federal funding delivered to Parry Sound will go toward expanding municipal infrastructure for the new branch campus of Canadore College announced earlier this summer.

Eagle Lake First Nation will receive $829,000 from the federal Community Adjustment Fund toward starting up a value-added forestry operation in northwestern Ontario.

Thunder Bay Mayor Lynn Peterson has been re-elected to the 2009-2010 board of directors of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) at its 110th Annual Conference in Ottawa. Peterson was re-elected chair of the Large Urban Caucus.

The Ontario government is delivering $25,000 to the Wauzhushk Onigum First Nation near Kenora to explore opportunities in the granite manufacturing sector.

Band members from the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation have blocked representatives from Platinex Inc. from accessing their mineral claims in northwestern Ontario, Aug. 25.