Thunder Bay

By IAN ROSS A local ownership group looking to re-open the shuttered Cascades mill into a specialty paper mill is already looking for employees. Spokesman Andre Nicol for Thunder Bay Fine Papers says closing the complex deal with Cascades Inc.

By IAN ROSS A Thunder Bay fencing company has retooled to pursue a cross-Canada market with new automated and more decorative products geared to the commercial and residential market.

By IAN ROSS On a blustery November and December day in the past, Gerry Dawson would be reachable only by radio. Not so this year for the president of Thunder Bay Tug Services.

By IAN ROSS The balance of political power in the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines (MNDM) shifted from east to west with October’s government cabinet shuffle and the appointment of Thunder Bay-Superior MPP Michael Gravelle to the minister’s

By IAN ROSS Techno Logic Timber, a Thunder Bay forestry company, wants to get into the cottage lot business.

By IAN ROSS Ten years ago, few made the connection that mitochondrial DNA could be used as an investigative tool to solve criminal cold cases. How quickly things have changed.

By IAN ROSS Thunder Bay Mayor Lynn Peterson says the city’s economy maybe in transition, but the forestry industry is not dead. “The industry is here to stay,” says the popular two-term mayor.

By NICK STEWART Nearly five years after its inception, Thunder Bay-based Genesis Genomics has formed a partnership with a worldwide leader in skin care to bring the company’s first product to market.

By IAN ROSS Proponents spearheading the establishment of an abattoir for the Rainy River district are finding it slowing going to secure a sizeable beef cattle commitment and keep costs down.

By IAN ROSS Northwestern Ontario's primary forest industry has experienced a wave of mill closures and job losses, but some small value-added wood producers in the Fort Frances area are expanding.