Around the North

Representatives at a Northwestern Ontario Associated Chamber of Commerce meeting in Dryden agreed to a proposal which suggests the entire region of northwestern Ontario should be designated as one of the province’s new tax-incentive zones.

As bargaining groups from Falconbridge's Kidd metallurgical division in Timmins met on a full-time basis to reach labour peace, members with CAW Local 599 voted in favour of strike action.

Timmins community leaders were on Air Canada Jazz's case after accusations surfaced that the regional air carrier was price-gouging local residents.

Thunder Bay’s city manager has been officially terminated, seven months after he was put under suspension. City council emerged from a two-hour closed meeting and voted in favour of the firing.

The Northwestern Ontario Technology Centre (NOTC) has launched The Idea Factory Challenge, an innovative project designed to stimulate entrepreneurship that can help diversify northwestern Ontario's economy and provide opportunities for its

The City of Timmins has selected FVB District Energy of Toronto to conduct a feasibility study to take mine waste water from the abandoned McIntyre and Hollinger mines and convert it into a possible heat source for municipal buildings.

Site remediation is expected to get underway in the near future at Fort William First Nation industrial site.

A 21-hour bargaining session was needed to avoid a labour disruption at Thunder Bay’s Bombardier plant. The union representing the plant's 640 workers says the three-year deal includes increases in wages, pensions and other benefits.

Bearskin Airlines and Wasaya Airways have entered into negotiations to allow Wasaya Airways to acquire the Sioux Lookout northern routes and operations presently operated by Bearskin Airlines.

With a dwindling population and a shrinking tax base, Sudbury taxpayers may be placed in a financial pinch in paying for the rising costs of operating the Greater City of Sudbury.