Sault Ste. Marie

By RICK HOULE Tom Stephenson, café manager at Sault Ste. Marie’s Hidden Bay Café, has recognized the growing trend in laptop computer use and has added a wireless Internet connection to his establishment.

Brascan Power Corp., the parent company of Sault Ste. Marie’s Great Lakes Power Ltd., is investing $85.8 million to upgrade 164 kilometres of transmission lines between Sault Ste. Marie and Wawa in northeastern Ontario. Comstock Canada Ltd.

By IAN ROSS Sault Ste. Marie could be the site of one of the world’s first commercial uses of a cogeneration plant powered by bio oil.

By KELLY LOUISEIZE Northern Ontario Business Algoma Tubes, once a subsidiary business of Algoma Steel, has risen from the ashes after being moth balled and later sold to Tenaris Group, a multi-national seamless tubing operation.

The City of Sault Ste. Marie has secured big-league management as the future operator of its proposed new multi-use arena project, and is approaching the government for more money.

Sault Ste. Marie could soon boast a cogeneration facility fuelled by bio oil. A group of private and public sector groups led by the Sault Ste. Marie Public Utilities Commission Services Inc., DynaMotive Energy Systems of Vancouver, B.C.

By IAN ROSS The provincial Tories’ Smart Growth initiative to plan the North’s economic future has come and gone. With a new Liberal government in place, Sault Ste.

By IAN ROSS Pull into a Mr. Lube franchise somewhere in Canada and chances are there is a Sault Ste. Marie connection.

By IAN ROSS Border tie-ups due to truck inspections, homeland security issues and increased trade are costing the North American economy millions of dollars and are crippling border communities. Sault Ste.

In building upon the North American success of Filtrec, a European filter manufacturer in Northern Ontario, the Sault Ste. Marie Economic Development Corp.