Around the North

Ontario continues improving the safety and efficiency of highways throughout Northern Ontario.

As part of an ongoing long-term commitment to sustainability, Boise Cascade, L.L.C.

Port Severn and South River will be seeing major upgrades since the communities' have received more than $2 million in federal funds for beautification projects and infrastructure upgrades.

The Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre honoured the city's science and IT professionals on June 10 at the fourth annual SSMARt Innovation Awards. This year’s awards gala was held at the Grande Theatre and attracted over 100 attendees.

Eight Lakehead University researchers in Thunder Bay have received grants to support their research. The grants total more than $1 million to study forestry, food pathogens and mass transfer applications.

Ontario's First Nations have a new chief now that The Union of Ontario Indians has elected Sudbury area’s Patrick Madahbee to replace John Beaucage.

Northern Ontario mining equipment and services will be on display to the world at a pair of international industry expos and mining missions to be held in China and Mexico in October 2009. The China mission, held from Oct.

With big questions remaining as to whether work will resume at Vale Inco following labor negotiations, Sudbury miner FNX Mining is in talks with Xstrata Nickel to process its ore at their site.

A strike may well be on the horizon for United Steelworkers at Vale's Voisey's Bay nickel mine in northern Labrador, where labor talks are ongoing between the United Steelworkers and Vale.

Vale Inco's decision to chop 423 Canadian jobs and shut down its Sudbury operations for eight weeks, as announced in March 2009, won't result in any action from the federal government.