Around the North

Nipissing U expands south, wins national kudos

North Bay's Nipissing University opened the doors to its new Muskoka campus in Bracebridge, Oct. 25.

Oct 30, 2008 2:22 PM Read more >

Bags of heritage fund cash land in Nipissing

The Nipissing area of northeastern Ontario received a huge cash windfall from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund. The Municipality of West Nipissing is receiving $1.

Oct 30, 2008 2:21 PM Read more >

Emerald ash borer pesticide hung up in government channels

A Sault Ste. Marie forest biotech company is tied up in bureaucratic paperwork in getting their environmentally-friendly pesticide legalized in Canada. Joe Meating, president of BioForest Technologies Inc.

Oct 30, 2008 2:20 PM Read more >

A new tourism vacation web portal is launched

Ontario's Wilderness Region is hosting its first annual general meeting this week at the Shania Twain Centre in Timmins. The Schumacher-based tourism marketing group helps promote tourism products and experiences in the North.

Oct 30, 2008 2:19 PM Read more >

Nishnawbe Aski entrepreneurs, community leaders celebrated

The Nishnawbe Aski Development Fund celebrated their entrepreneurial and community success stories at its 18th annual business awards event in Timmins, Oct. 22.

Oct 30, 2008 2:15 PM Read more >

New and improved Mining Act coming in December

The first glimpse of the Ontario's new Mining Act will be tabled in the Legislature before Christmas.

Oct 30, 2008 2:14 PM Read more >

Bio-diesel maker gets cash injection

A Sault Ste. Marie green fuel company is getting $60,000 to bring their mini bio-diesel refinery to market faster. SITTM is one of 12 Canadian companies receiving money from Precarn's Industrial Technology GAP (iT-GAP) program and its pool of $1.

Oct 30, 2008 2:12 PM Read more >

Kidd strike leads to ONTC layoffs

A month-long strike at Xstrata Copper Kidd Metallurgical site has spun off into temporary layoffs to rail workers at the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission (ONTC).

Oct 30, 2008 2:09 PM Read more >

Xstrata appoints new ops boss for Sudbury

Marc Boissonneault is Xstrata Nickel's new operations vice-president in Sudbury. He succeeds Mike Romaniuk who moves to Toronto as the company's vice-president of strategic projects.

Oct 30, 2008 2:06 PM Read more >

CFIB calls WSIB mandatory coverage “misguided”

Minister of Labour Peter Fonseca, yesterday introduced the WSIB mandatory coverage legislation in the Ontario Legislature which will be pushed to second reading. CFIB Ontario vice-president Judith Andrew calls this legislation seriously misguided.

Oct 30, 2008 2:04 PM Read more >