Around the North

Brent M. Eckert, a professor in Cambrian College's school of science, skills and technology, is the recipient of this year's President's Award for Excellence - faculty category.

Sault Ste. Marie's ongoing trade mission links with Ireland continued in late May with almost 80 business people, educators and cultural representatives spending 10 days in the Irish Republic.

Northern College's Kirkland Lake campus was seeking proposals for an innovation and development facility.

An upcoming one-day workshop in North Bay will provide a forum for participants to ask technical questions about wind power and other renewable power energy sources.

Despite a shrinking population in northeastern Ontario, those numbers do not reflect North Bay's hot economy.

Indian Affairs and Northern Development Minister Robert Nault has appointed a special representative for northern economic development.

Whether a major international call-centre company plugs into the Tri-Towns area will depend upon the level of interest by potential job applicants from across the region.

The first phase of cleanup of one of Canada's worst environmental hot spots at the former Kam Kotia mine is on schedule and close to being completed.

Linear Resources plans to spend $600,000 this summer drilling for a potential tantalum deposit near Armstrong. An official with the Newfoundland-based company says its Seymour Lake project is showing "spectacular visual mineralization.

Canada Safeway will request a second government-supervised vote on its “last, best and final” contract offer to striking employees in Thunder Bay.