Around the North

A local shipwreck enthusiasts' group wants to promote sport-diving off Thunder Bay with the aid of Parks Canada.

Industrial workplace accidents may be reduced if mine and forestry workers upgrade their ability to read and write, according to a Thunder Bay literacy organization.

The province is investing more than $1.2 million to help Collège Boréal and Contact North upgrade their telecommunications systems.

The Greater Sudbury Public Library will host a mentorship program workshop on the topic of "How to communicate and talk to people. In business and in personal life communication is important.

A deal is expected to be signed in the near future between Toronto-based Fort Knox Gold Resources and Inco Ltd. that will give Fort Knox 100 per cent interest in Inco's exhausted mines.

Unionized marine engineers aboard Great Lakes freighters took to the picket lines in late November as Canadian shipping companies scrambled to keep sailing.

As part of its business expansion plans, Thunder Bay Telephone has acquired the city Internet provider, Air Internet Canada Ltd.

Lakehead University professor Inder Nirdosh is the recipient of a $145,000-grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council for a mineral collector project.

Feedback from the community on how to retain and expand business in Timmins is filtering back into the Venture Centre and the Timmins Economic Development Corp., who are the midst of a business retention and expansion initiative.

Air Creebec has taken steps to upgrade its air service by investing $5.5 million in a Dash 8 aircraft, the same type of aircraft used by AirOntario in its flights to Toronto.