Thunder Bay

By IAN ROSS Vicki Kurz needs only to read the regional newspapers or listen to laid off mill workers to know what the score is for forestry-dependent communities like Dryden.

By IAN ROSS Early one morning Jennifer Rasmussen's neighbour, clad in shorts, ambled out onto his dock, a steaming coffee mug and cell phone in hand, and slumped into his Adirondack chair.

By IAN ROSS Like mining and forestry, aviation is a cyclical industry.

By Ian Ross The demand for nurses has never been higher in Canada. With the gap between supply and demand for nurses expected to balloon to 78,000 by 2011, it's a job hunter's market for Lakehead University students.

By IAN ROSS The science of upgrading tree seeds may seem like “voo-doo magic” to some in the forestry industry, but one Thunder Bay seed technologist is gaining more converts all the time.

By IAN ROSS A new owner is at the helm of Thunder Bay’s Pascol Engineering. The Upper Lakes Group Inc., has assumed ownership of Pascol after its insolvent parent company, Canadian Shipbuilding & Engineering Ltd.

By IAN ROSS Thunder Bay is opening the doors to waterfront development. With a community-endorsed master plan fresh off the designer’s board, the city is preparing to make its $100-million Prince Arthur’s Landing project become reality.

By IAN ROSS A Thunder Bay group pursuing the acquisition of a mothballed Cascades mill has found a new source of financing.

By IAN ROSS Lakehead University’s head of research wants to build on the momentum of a $6 million provincial investment by building a world class forestry centre of excellence.

The Lakehead’s economic history is inextricably bound with its transshipment role first as the rendezvous hub at Fort William during the Northwest Company fur trade era and later as the world’s largest grain port during the course of the twentieth ce