North Bay

North Bay’s Mining Week kicks off in mid-May with an awards gala recognizing a local mining sector personality.

By IAN ROSS To find inspiration in designing North Bay’s Regional Health Centre, architect Brian Bertrand harkened back to his medal-winning university thesis.

New North Bay Mayor Vic Fedeli intends to create a “lean and mean” community development corporation (CDC) to market the city’s vacant industrial land. The CDC is expected to be modeled after the community’s highly successful Air Base Property Corp.

By IAN ROSS The executive of North Bay’s Downtown Improvement Area (DIA) is considering a mass assessment review board appeal of every commercial property in the city’s core.

By IAN ROSS With a surging Canadian dollar, mounting losses in the Canadian softwood lumber industry and uncertainty in the price-sensitive automotive sector, the Canadian manufacturing scene is anything but stable.

By IAN ROSS Carol Montgomery opened the doors on a new store and a new life as owner of North Bay’s Nutty Chocolatier.

Gord McGuinty has every confidence his Adams Mine project will be up and operating by the end of 2005.

By ANDREW WAREING Low interest rates and a healthy local economy, along with proximity to a burgeoning market to the south are offering a boost to North Bay’s real estate market.

BY IAN ROSS Pierre Belanger has stood on the tracks of the Ontario Northland Railway (ONR) three years ago as a protester, symbolically ready to repel any attempts to dump southern Ontario garbage in his Timiskaming backyard.

By IAN ROSS After 15 years in municipal politics, the avuncular mayor of North Bay, Jack Burrows, leaves office this fall. In June, Burrows announced he would not be seeking re-election in November.