Sudbury

The lasting legacy of the year-long strike of nearly 3,000 members of the United Steelworkers Local 6500 at Vale’s Sudbury operations will not be its economic implications, but its message about foreign acquisitions, said a local economist.

Despite the recent recession, the lending climate for small businesses in Northern Ontario has retained much of its strength and is continuing to grow stronger, according to local entrepreneurs and lenders.

The practice of medicine is an art, but managing a business is a skill that requires training, said Sudbury dermatologist Lyne Giroux.

Despite a year-long strike and recessionary climate, mining suppliers continue to set up shop in the Sudbury Basin.

Sudbury homebuilders will soon be some of the most educated in the province on energy-efficient construction techniques, thanks to a new program being launched in select cities around Ontario.

To understand the City of Greater Sudbury’s newfound diversification beyond the mining industry, one need only look at the local real estate and housing markets, says Dan Gray, president of the Sudbury Real Estate Board.

Attracting people to live downtown is part an urban strategy to revitalize downtown Sudbury. To provide those living spaces, Sudbury’s Dalron has invested in the downtown, hoping to start a trend of condominium living in the city’s core.

Sudbury-area's Stanley Appleton Manufacturing Corp. provides in-house design, build, testing and certification of rollover and falling object protective structures

More Northern communities are embracing the film industry and its economic spinoffs.

The Town of Espanola has secured a new residential and industrial development with the Kilganan Group Ltd. of Little Current. Beginning Aug. 15, the Manitoulin Island developer begins construction of 19 residential lots in the town's centre.