Sudbury

By ANDREW WAREING It is an Internet connected world and the e-Sudbury.com SmartWorx steering committee has a seminar for business and community members who want to learn how to take advantage of its opportunities. November 12, 13 and 14, e-Sudbury.

Businesses are taking the biggest hit on property taxes in Ontario and real tax reform is necessary, says an association representing small- and medium-sized business owners. A report released by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business Aug.

Unionized Inco Ltd. workers in Sudbury ratified a new three-year deal Aug. 28, voting 62 per cent in favour of ending a three-month strike. Voter turnout with Steelworkers Local 6500 was 77 per cent in Sudbury where 3,316 employees are members.

By KELLY LOUISEIZE Municipalities throughout the Manitoulin Lacloche area are establishing key business opportunities to assist in the expansion of their economic development initiatives.

Companies often expend a great deal of energy leafing through phonebooks scouting for suppliers of products and services to help make their conference or trade show a success. Now the landscape of the event-planning industry has changed.

A consortium of First Nations communities have finalized the sale of the assets of Algoma Mill Works to build a specialty plywood mill on the North Channel of Lake Huron. Algoma-Manitoulin MP Brent St.

By IAN ROSS A proposed birchwood fibre mill slated for Lake Huron’s North Shore will likely proceed under Aboriginal ownership.

A new regional trade association has been formed to promote Greater Sudbury’s fastest growing sector.

By IAN ROSS In promoting Elliot Lake as a four-season vacation destination, the city is preparing to introduce new seasonal cottage lots to the marketplace this summer.

By IAN ROSS Being prepared with readily available space for technology-based companies is the business case behind renovations at Sudbury’s expanded downtown Technology Centre.