North Bay

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.

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 Air Base Property Corp. (ABPC) hopes to land another tenant for its last empty hangar at the Aerospace Centre by year’s end.

By IAN ROSS A North Bay taskforce seeking fair market value tax assessment for commercial and industrial properties is not hopeful of meaningful change with the Municipal Property Assessment Corp. (MPAC) or its method of evaluation anytime soon.

By ANDREW WAREING Being located in the heart of Northern Ontario is proving to be one of the main selling points luring people to the city.

By ANDREW WAREING What started as a slow building year in North Bay picked up in a “big way” in August. That was the assessment of North Bay’s manager of economic development Rick Evans.

By IAN ROSS A recent trade mission to Detroit is already paying solid dividends for a North Bay import company. Uprooted Designs, a newly created division of Buckstone Inc. and Vested Interest Trading, is seeking to gain a foothold into the U.S.

By ANDREW WAREING NORTH BAY - Three leaders in Ontario’s northern economy have a simple message - the future is coming and it is time to change.