North Bay

Brad Minogue walks off the space inside the darkened and historic Cochrane Block building in downtown North Bay where contractors are framing new offices and work spaces for tempered glass and LED lighting.

George Burton glances around the 17,000 square feet of hangar at Canadore College’s Aviation Campus, stuffed with helicopters and turboprop aircraft, and predicts big things are coming over the horizon in the next five years.

Pilot Diamond Tools, a North Bay mining supplier, secured a $140,000 repayable loan from FedNor to fund a new product line. The announcement was made in North Bay on Oct. 3.

Anachronism is a moniker that Michael Waram wears well. The designer and craftsman is an admitted throwback to the days when quality furniture was created with passion, care and attention to detail.

The federal Competition Bureau has determined the controversial sale of Ontera to Bell Aliant would prevent competition for telecommunication services in 16 northeastern Ontario communities.

In taking his cue from North Bay Mayor Al McDonald, Nipissing-Timiskaming MP Jay Aspin has filed a request to the federal competition commissioner to review the sale of Ontera by the provincial government to Bell Aliant.

The Northern mayors of Sault Ste. Marie , Sudbury , Thunder Bay , Timmins , North Bay , Kenora and Kapuskasing, with their CAO’s, are huddling in North Bay for a meeting of the Northern Ontario Large Urban Mayors, July 3.

North Bay ’s Aerospace Centre at Jack Garland Airport is attracting a European satellite company by teaming up with Canadore College.

Canadore College in North Bay has received $2 million in federal funding for a new composites research facility that will serve the aviation industry, and has secured its first private partnership with Swiss Space Systems (S3).

Published reports from North Bay say that Georgia-based Arclin is closing its resin adhesives manufacturing plant on June 27 and laying off 39.