Around the North

The Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce is now seeking nominations for the 2012 Bell Business Excellence Awards.

Manitoulin Island-based aquaculturalist Mike Meeker has been recognized by the Community Futures Network of Canada as an Ontario entrepreneur.

The Ontario government is providing support to a string of communities on the North Shore of Lake Huron to develop economic development strategies to attract new businesses and create jobs.

Paul Anderson, managing partner of Forbes Anderson LLP, Chartered Accountants, has been named chief financial officer and vice-president of finance of Pele Mountain Resources.

Collège Boréal's Louis Rancourt, a professor in Boréal's School of Trades and Applied Technology, has had his research published in the scientific journal Physics Essays.

The federal government will contribute up to $11 million for a new biosolids management facility in Sudbury.

The City of Thunder Bay has been told that its proposed Events Centre still has another shot at accessing money from the federal P3 Canada fund.

A northeastern Ontario First Nation said it's going to court to stop a Toronto junior miner from drilling on its traditional lands.

Five students in Cambrian College’s power engineering program in Sudbury have received a financial boost, thanks to a $7,000 bursary jointly sponsored by Bruce Power and the Power Worker’s Union.

Cambrian College in Sudbury has partnered with Discovery Aviation Academy (DAA) on a memorandum of understanding that will allow business students to simultaneously take flight training.