Around the North

Manitoulin Transport founder Doug Smith finally received the Order of Canada at a ceremony last week at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. The 75-year-old Gore Bay trucking magnate was one of 47 recipients honoured Dec. 12.

Apollo Gold has closed a $15 million US bridge financing deal with Macqaurie Bank and RMB Resources on its Black Fox gold project, near Timmins. In a Dec.

A Montreal company is offering a new data-erasing service designed to foil those dumpster drivers. The Digital Shredder is the flagship product of a Montreal company, Convergenet, lead by Ryk Edelson, a computer security expert.

Laurentian University's MIRARCO mining research institute will host a mine ventilation symposium in Sudbury for 2010. The 13th U.S.

Industry Minister and Parry Sound-Muskoka MP Tony Clement delivered more than $1.6 million in FedNor funds to his home riding, Dec. 5.

Northgate Mineral reports its found a bigger gold reserve at its Young-Davidson project at Matachewan in northeastern Ontario.

Are you a North Bay ex-pat on Christmas furlough in the Gateway City? Mayor Vic Fedeli wants to invite you over for a Boxing Day chat.

MPH Ventures Corp. (TSX-V: MPS) (FWB: IJA1) (the “Company”) has acquired a further 11 per cent interest of Skyharbour Resources Ltd.'s (TSX-V: SYH) Heyson gold property located in Red Lake, Northwestern Ontario.

Drilling at Lake Shore Gold Corp.'s Bell Creek property, northeast of Timmins has indicated that gold mineralization extends "well beyond" the limits of historic mining at the past-producing site, according to company officials.

The Timmins Chamber of Commerce has lent its voice to a growing choir calling for the federal government to provide a response to the economic situation.