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Spinning off fledgling businesses in northeastern Ontario which are related to welding and materials joining is behind a vision put forward by Northern College. The college is awaiting a response from FedNor and Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corp.

All signs point to a profitable cycle for mineral producers and Canadian Arrow Mines Ltd. in particular is fast tracking to take advantage of the mineral-frenzy market.

Consolidation will be the key word for the forestry industry in the next one to five years, according to private and public experts alike.

Temiskaming Shores is poised to benefit from a partnership with a multi-national European company that has a strategic growth plan for North America. But don't say IKEA.

The chips are down and the way Temiskaming Shores sees it, it is a good bet. Southern Ontario-based Organic Snack Foods Inc. is expanding to Temiskaming Shores with a $1-million project.

In what is being heralded as a revival of the mining industry in Kirkland Lake, Foxpoint Resources Ltd., the new owners of the Macassa mine and mill, poured their first three gold bars in a ceremony attended by local dignitaries in mid-July.

A resolution passed by Armour Township on Highway 11 to ban transport of toxic substances on provincial highways and rail lines failed to gain support from Haileybury and New Liskeard.

A phased-in subdivision development on the airport hill in North Bay received final approval from city councillors after being held up for a decade.

Officials with the City of North Bay say a revenue loss of about $84,000 is a small price to pay to keep home construction costs from escalating as a result of an index rate structure.

Representatives from Ontario's aerospace sector landed in England earlier this week in search of European investment and networking opportunities.