Sudbury

By NICK STEWART Where most modern mining trade shows feature career fairs, the recently announced MineSET Mine Technologies and Career Opportunities Forum is focusing exclusively on the attraction and retention of skilled employees.

By IAN ROSS When De Beers Canada begins extracting diamonds from its Victor Mine in March, it will be a landmark event in the history of Ontario’s Far North.

By IAN ROSS In his late teens, Andre Lapierre wasn’t all that different from many restless kids in Northern Ontario. All the career opportunities and real-world experience lay over the horizon, he thought.

By NICK STEWART Efforts to adjust to the province’s proposed energy mix may raise the price of energy by at least 15 per cent over the next 20 years, according to Paul Shervill, vice-president of conservation and sector development for the Ontario Po

By NICK STEWART With just five years under its belt, Northern Ontario’s largest graffiti removal business is looking to move beyond its Sudbury origins to other parts of the province, according to co-owner Ray Sasseville.

By IAN ROSS Darryl Lake’s dream of a Finlandia-style innovation park for the mining industry has come to full fruition.

By Kelly Louiseize When a person in a family is diagnosed with cancer, the disease infects the lives of those around him or her. In the cases when a child has been given the news, parents, relatives and friends rally around for support.

By IAN ROSS Name a mine development in Northern Ontario and chances are PowerTel Utilities Contractors have strung the wire and hooked up the power.

By IAN ROSS As regular readers of sports pages know only too well, the business of the sports goes way beyond the game stories and box scores in agate type.

By NICK STEWART Up to 500 people across a variety of sectors from around the world are expected to attend this fall’s Mining and the Environment International Conference, to be held from October 19 to 27 at Sudbury’s Laurentian University.