Around the North

Officials with the City of North Bay say a revenue loss of about $84,000 is a small price to pay to keep home construction costs from escalating as a result of an index rate structure.

After closing up shop in late May, the City of Kenora is considering welcoming back Atlantis Direct to its vacant call centre, provided the company gets its financial house in order.

Canadore College's much anticipated new aerospace campus construction is expected to be complete in mid-August. The $12.5-million facility located at North Bay's Jack Garland Airport has a tentative ribbon-cutting date of Sept. 27.

By Ian Ross Recognizable for 87 years for the distinctive 'P' affixed to their black smoke stacks, the bulk freighter fleet of N. M. Paterson and Sons Ltd. of Thunder Bay has sailed into history.

By Ian Ross Recognizable for 87 years for the distinctive 'P' affixed to their black smoke stacks, the bulk freighter fleet of N. M. Paterson and Sons Ltd. of Thunder Bay has sailed into history.

The Superior East Community Development Corp. was approved for $800,000 in funding from FedNor, enough to keep the organization operating for the next three years.

Laurentian University will receive $1,527,803 in research and equipment grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) during the next academic year.

Housing starts in the City of Greater Sudbury continued their brisk pace in June bringing the first half of 2002 to a successful conclusion, according to preliminary figures released on July 9 by Canada Mortage and Housing Corp.

A strategy to foster research and development in an effort to stimulate new private and public sector investment received a financial boost from the Greater Sudbury Development Corp. on July 9.

More than 40 Aboriginal communities in Ontario have pledged to use wood as the main construction product when designing new housing and administrative buildings.