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Dryden residents spent some anxious hours wondering if the community would be evacuated following a chlorine dioxide leak from Weyerhaeuser's pulp and paper mill on July 30.

The Sault Ste. Marie Chamber of Commerce is contributing to the growing list of voices petitioning for the four-laning of the Trans-Canada Highway from coast to coast.

Indian Affairs and Northern Development Minister Robert Nault has appointed a special representative for northern economic development.

Forest-fire suppression in Northern Ontario will likely cost more this year. The pilots who fly CL-415 waterbombers say the government's refusal to give them more pay could cost an extra $600,000.

Timmins Mayor Jamie Lim, chairperson of Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), huddled in Saint John, N.B.

Northern College graduates are getting high marks from employers, and that has led to a provincial funding contribution of $152,629. The operating grants were based on three key performance indicators for 2001-02 including a 93.

The premier recently announced that Ontario's current commitment to highway construction is $10 billion over the next 10 years.

Women-led business startups are far surpassing the national average for startups, despite the hurdles many women face when launching their own business - and they are managing to do so with very little seed money.

One-industry towns in Northern Ontario are eligible for a financial helping hand to diversify their economies. A new provincial fund, the Economic Diversification Assistance Program, will invest in projects that bring about new economic activity.

For the time being, lumber industries in Canada will get a break from the 19.3 per cent countervailing duties imposed on softwood lumber.