Around the North

Sault Ste. Marie is attempting to capitalize on the value of American money, according to a spokesman for Sault Ste. Marie tourism. The Canadian Tourism Commission and the Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership have provided Tourism Sault Ste.

New Liskeard town council is asking for revisions to the province's environmental assessment process to assure Tri-Town area residents that the proposed development of a toxic waste incinerator in Kirkland Lake would not pose a health risk.

A post-Sept. 11 decline in passenger traffic is being blamed for a $20,000-deficit and 1,700 fewer travellers at North Bay's Jack Garland Airport during the first quarter of 2002.

North Bay's Air Base Property Corp. (ABPC) received a $900,000 grant from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund for infrastructure improvement and a new building lot. ABPC and its tenants will contribute $2.

A recent merger has placed Kinross Gold Corp. in the rankings as the seventh-largest gold producer in the world. Kinross Gold Corp. announced a merger this week with TBX Gold and Echo Bay mines.

A Quebec junior exploration company is encouraged by recent results from gold exploration efforts near Matheson. Tom Exploration Inc.

North Bay's Regional Self Help Office recorded 676 new business name registrations last year and 1,160 jobs were tracked by the office as small-business growth.

Training for 170 new Weyerhaeuser Trus Joist employees began the first week of June at the Kenora Curling Club.

The Association of Mining Municipalities of Ontario has backed Elliot Lake in their claim that tax revenue should be higher for two local mines that are using land in the community to contain waste from mining operations.

Tembec has not backed down in its aim to pressure the federal government to stand up against the United States in the softwood lumber dispute.