Transportation

By IAN ROSS North Bay mayor Vic Fedeli wants Ottawa to upgrade local transportation infrastructure, not help tear it up.

By NICK STEWART The employment shortage anticipated across countless global industries is also expected to touch down on the aviation sector, sparking an “unprecedented” level of interest in post-secondary aviation programs across the North.

By NICK STEWART Armed with a new report detailing the drop in property taxes it has received from mining companies, the City of Greater Sudbury is looking to take a new step on its quest for funding to bolster its infrastructure.

By NICK STEWART Momentum is building as key regional leaders examine the possibility of a Northern Ontario James Bay Coast sea port.

By IAN ROSS Smaller cruise ships scheduled to ply the upper Great Lakes in 2009 maybe the start of a new trend in adventure cruising.

By HEIDI ULRICHSEN Back in 2002, tire manufacturers had large stockpiles of industrial tires waiting to be sold.

By NICK STEWART When Northern Centre for Advanced Technology (NORCAT) officials wanted to bring their expertise and advanced technical knowledge to NASA to deliver high-tech outer space drills, they looked to the Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC)

By NICK STEWART For outsiders, the Far North winter road program may be little more than a point of interest as an item on which the provincial government spends more than $3 million every year.

By IAN ROSS All of Northern Ontario’s economy hinges on moving freight great distances from one place to another. No one knows that better than the Smith family of Manitoulin Transport.

Canadian National Railway (CN) says "no formal proposal" was ever made by Sault Ste. Marie waterfront developer Philip Garforth to purchase all or portion of the former Algoma Central Railway.