Around the North

Timmins and the Porcupine Prospectors and Developers Assocation will be rolling out the welcome mat in hosting the 2002 Northeastern Ontario Mines and Minerals Symposium.

A Timmins Economic Development Corp. (TEDC) study reveals the city netted 308 full-time jobs last year. At the request by its board of directors, TEDC monitored job hires and losses each month in 2001.

A recently transplanted mining exploration company has begun diamond drilling on one of its newly acquired properties in the Timmins area.

The City of Thunder Bay is studying a proposal from an independent television company seeking support for taping of an international program in the city.

Northwestern Ontario residents have been receiving promises from the five candidates vying for Premier Mike Harris's job.

A Sudbury biotechnology firm, Neureka Research Corp., inked a contract with the University of Turku in Finland to develop and manufacture a patented method of detecting coronary heart disease.

The Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce is again voicing concern about a decision made by Thunder Bay city council.

The Conference Board of Canada gave Sudbury a tentative thumbs-up in its economic forecasts for Canadian cities in 2002.

Laurentian University in Sudbury will be the site of a national office for a new research network that will assist in the adaptation to changing climates.

An Ontario Municipal Board hearing scheduled for the spring over a proposed second Wal-Mart development in Sudbury's south end has been postponed.