Around the North

Mary Long-Irwin, a prominent face and vocal supporter of Thunder Bay's business community, is stepping down as president of the city's chamber of commerce. Her resignation becomes effective, June 30.

A Quebec-based life sciences company, Warnex Inc. has entered into an agreement in principle to acquire Thunder Bay's Molecular World lab. The lab specializes in human DNA identification using forensic testing.

Provincial money is being delivered to Sault Ste. Marie's Algoma University to build a bioscience and technology convergence centre. Sault MPP David Orazietti announced the $16 million announcement May 29.

The Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce is upset at the federal government's recent decision to give $5.5 million in funding for a mining innovation centre at the University of Toronto.

Applicants are needed for members of the Downtown Village Development Corporation (DVDC) board of directors in Sudbury. The board's mission is to improve the development of downtown Sudbury through numerous enhancements.

Contact North, Northern Ontario’s distance education and training network, reported significant increases in the number of course registrations supported and courses offered during the winter 2009 academic semester.

The governments of Canada and Ontario will invest up to $128 million in a nine-kilometre stretch of Highway 69 south of Sudbury.

MPH Ventures Corp. (FWB:IJA1) is reporting drill core assay results from a hole completed by a previous operator of the Raney Gold Project in northeastern Ontario.

Northern Ontario's post-secondary institutions have received almost $36.7 million from the federal government after two rounds of infrastructure funding announcements.

At least 225,000 square kilometres of the Far North will be protected through legislation put forward by the provincial government on June 2. It is not satisfactory for some of the area's First Nations.