Sudbury

By IAN ROSS The plan to build wind turbines in Sudbury may be a dream floating in the breeze unless the province comes through with some financial carrots for the developers poised to move ahead with the project.

By ANDREW WAREING Business retention and expansion is a phrase close to the lips of many when talking about the economic future of a community. To one group, however, it is more than just a phrase.

By ANDREW WAREING After two years on life support, the stalled Sudbury Regional Hospital reconstruction project has received a much-needed injection of cash from the Ontario government. On Aug.

By ANDREW WAREING In a short time, Sudbury could learn whether or not it will be a major producer of biodiesel in Canada. In early August, Topia Energy Inc.

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.