Around the North

Elliot Lake is continuing its strategy to diversify its economy and upgrade infrastructure following an investment of $3.8 million from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corp.

E-learning researcher Dr. Robin Mason was recently in Sudbury to study the Contact North/Contact Nord network. Mason, a professor of educational technology at the U.K.

Several Northern Ontario communities are receiving over one million dollars in funding to develop Internet Web portals.

The West Parry Sound Health Centre (WPSHC) is receiving $208,918 in funding for project initiatives.

The Economic Development Corporation (EDC) of Wawa has $175,000 with which to operate for the next two years. Algoma-Manitoulin MP Brent St. Denis announced the funding recently.

Future economic prosperity for Timmins, Cochrane and Kapuskasing is closer to being realized thanks to recent funding announced by Human Resource Development.

The Serpent River First Nation is getting $131,000 in funding support for its local daycare expansion.

A Rainy River sawmill was fined $49,500 for five violations under the provincial Occupational and Safety Act.

By Ian Ross The North Bay and District Chamber of Commerce will not be sitting on the sidelines for this November’s municipal elections.

Does pre-commercial thinning (PCT) really increase productivity? That is the main question behind a $154,100-grant from the Living Legacy Trust for a study planned by the Confederation College Forestry Centre, Forintek and Outland Reforestation Ltd.