Around the North

Laurentian University's Denis Mayer has been appointed the president of the Canadian Association for Distance Education (CADE) during the organization's annual conference in June.

Sault Ste. Marie city councillor Derik Brandt is relinquishing his seat at city hall to become Thunder Bay's new manager of tourism and economic development. Brandt will assume duties in Thunder Bay on July 11.

Employees at Parry Sound's Pro-Safe Fire Training expect to be back at work within a few weeks after the owners of the building, which houses the company, locked out management and staff in late spring.

Houston Lake Mining Inc. in Val Caron, in the City of Greater Sudbury, and Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. have formed a partnership in an exploration project on Houston’s Tib Lake property in search of platinum groups, nickel, and copper minerals.

Timiskaming milk producers may be stuck on the hoof with excess milk if Parmalat Canada makes good on its threat not to buy area milk as a result of a proposed hazardous-waste incinerator in Kirkland Lake.

Canadian steel industry executives were expressing frustration and disappointment at the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) following its recent safeguard hearings into imports of nine classes of steel products into Canada.

Mounting debt has left behind a defunct Northwestern Ontario Recycle Association (NORA) in the northwest, and Fort Frances residents without recycling service.

Logging roads in the Rainy River district were reopened in early July following a three-day storm in June that brought bush operations to a standstill.

About 100 construction jobs will be created in Thunder Bay during the first phase of a proposed $9-billion power generation plant. Officials from St.

Falconbridge officials were waiting on a decision in late June on the City of Timmins' appeal of the 2001 municipal tax assessment of the mining company's Kidd Creek operation.