Around the North

Inco Ltd. has been fined $650,000 by an Ontario court in relation to the death of an employee at its Sudbury Copper Cliff South Mine in April 1999. The employee was killed when placing a blasting charge underground at the mine.

The doors at the Toronto School of Business branch in Timmins will be closed by year's end. As part of an $8.7-million acquisition by CDI Education, a private business and technology training school, branches in Timmins, St.

Sudbury's Cambrian College was nominated for a National Partners in Education Award.

Upgrades are being made to the North's telehealth network through a $362,000-contribution from FedNor.

The Community Development Corporation for East Algoma (CDCEA) received $250,000 from FedNor for its continued operations.

Northeastern Ontario's two newest and refurbished tourist attractions, the Shania Twain Centre and the Timmins Gold Mine Tour, received a $500,000-contribution in June from FedNor for construction and expansion.

The chairman of North Bay's Air Base Property Corp. wants major airport tenants at Jack Garland Airport to have free access to their hangars. Vic Fedeli is asking North Bay city council for the return of airport ramps at the Aerospace Centre.

Industrial property owners were the big winners in tax cuts that came out of the City of Timmins budget deliberations. Industrial classes will receive a 17.17 per cent chop in their tax bill, while commercial property taxes were reduced 3.

A Great Lakes cruising company has financially floundered just days into its inaugural cruise to the upper lakes. About 120 passengers aboard the Arcadia, a Greek-registered liner, were forced to disembark at Sault Ste.

Despite a recent funding snag, the Algoma Mill Works (AMW) proposal is still very much alive, the company reports.