Around the North

Due to a lack of industry support, National Transportation Day 2002, slated to take place on May 31 in North Bay has been cancelled until further notice.

Rubicon Minerals Corp. is forging ahead with its first phase of diamond drilling to test three main target areas at Red Lake.

By Ian Ross News that De Beers Canada Corp.

Fort Frances town council has no intention of passing a bylaw anytime soon to ban smoking in the municipality. The town's Heart Health Council requested the ban.

In an effort to reduce the number of maintenance and production staff at its Kidd Creek mine in Timmins, Falconbridge Ltd. is offering workers a chance to transfer to operations in Sudbury.

Joe Torlone beat out more than 40 applicants in being selected as the new chief administrative officer for the City of Timmins. The 21-year city employee succeeds Grant Chevrette who is retiring.

The Shania Twain Centre and the Timmins Underground Gold Mine Tour need extra funding from the city after experiencing a $241,360 net loss in 2001. The board of directors is asking for $117,000, up from $48,000 last year.

The Nishnawbe Aski Nation is placing its support behind the move to make Lakehead University in Thunder Bay a full partner in the northern medical school.

Construction of a $5-million seniors' residence in Sudbury's south end on Paris Street begins this spring for a fall ribbon-cutting.

A post-Christmas slump resulted in temporary layoffs of Sudbury call centre workers with Omega Direct Response.