Around the North

The ballots are counted, and the businesspeople have spoken, electing the new Timmins Chamber of Commerce 2009-2010 board of directors.

Northern Communications Services Inc., a prominent Sudbury-based telemessaging firm, has been recognized by its peers after being awarded an Award of Excellence 2009 by the Association of TeleServices International (ATSI).

A merger proposed in late May between Ursa Major Minerals Incorporated and Canadian Arrow Mines Limited has been cancelled.

The worst may be over for Canada's struggling economy, says the Ontario Trucking Association. The results of a Business Pulse e-Survey indicate “light trickling into the end of the recessionary tunnel.

A Sault Ste. Marie research lab is getting into the commercialization game of harvesting Canada Yew used in fighting cancer. The Ontario government is pitching in to give $42,150 to Biosphere Labs Inc.

The death of an independent contractor in northwestern Ontario has netted a $130,000 fine for Toronto junior gold miner Conquest Resources.

Rubicon Minerals has five drills turning, both on surface and underground, as the Vancouver junior proves up its Phoenix Gold Project at Red Lake. The company began sinking a shaft June 28 which has reached a depth of 142 metres below ground.

Premier Gold Mines reports finding more high grade gold at its Hardrock Project near Geraldton in northwestern, Ontario.

A Thunder Bay forensic DNA lab was thrust in the national spotlight for its participation in the search for famed aviator Amelia Earhart.

Improved market demand for pulp has Domtar recalling 230 laid-off workers at their Dryden pulp mill. The mill was shut down April 25 because of the lack of customer demand for pulp. Employees were brought back in stages as the mill starts up.