Transportation

A softening in the mining and southern Ontario high-tech industries can be attributed to Bearskin Airlines dropping service to Ottawa and Kitchener-Waterloo on April 1, and reducing flights to the major Northern Ontario cities.

Stakeholders have one month to delay CN Railway’s decision to stop running passenger service between Sault Ste. Marie and Hearst. In January, the company announced that, because $2.

A provincial plan to access the Ring of Fire may be lacking, but for almost three years the Ministry of Transportation (MTO) has been quietly working on a major pan-northern planning exercise to support future regional economic development.

A report to restructure the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission (ONTC) has been delivered to Northern Development and Mines Minister Michael Gravelle.

United Airlines is cutting its direct link between Thunder Bay and Chicago, effective April 24.

An American passenger rail advocacy group is weighing on Canadian National Railway’s (CN) decision to cut passenger service between Sault Ste. Marie and Hearst by April. Ross Capon, president of the Washington, D.C.

Sault Ste. Marie is dusting off an old game plan to save another railroad.

LH North Ltd. has been awarded a $3.2-million contract to replace the Swamp River Bridge on Highway 11, west of Shebandowan Road junction. Work begins this spring. The Ministry of Northern Development and Mines said this will create 32 jobs.

The rural municipality of Greenstone is building a regional skills training centre to prepare a future labour force for the Ring of Fire mineral deposits. Queen’s Park and Ottawa are each investing $1.

Harvey Friesen, a business icon for Northern Ontario, and the former president of Bearskin Airlines, died Sunday in Palm Springs, California. He was 65 years old.