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NAC Air’s new digs brings fleet and staff expansions

By Nick Stewart The construction of a three-story hangar complex at the Thunder Bay International Airport is nearly complete, signaling a new age and a new home for First Nations-owned NAC Air.

Trade adviser launches consultancy

By KELLY LOUISEIZE With well over 30 years in the business world, Bill Boulton, president of Success Marketing and Sales has opened up his own company.

Budworm infestation closely watched

By KELLY LOUISEIZE A management plan to curb an outbreak of the jack pine budworm on trees covering almost 90,000 hectares in the Rainy River district is being welcomed by forest licensers.

Red Lake merger to boost production to one million ounces

By KELLY LOUISEIZE Production at the Red Lake Mine is expected to bump up to one million ounces in 2007-2008 as new mine manager Dan Gagnon merges the Placer Dome and Goldcorp deposits into one.

Wolfden spins out gold stakes to focus on Nunavut

By IAN ROSS Thunder Bay’s Wolfden Resources is spinning out its northwestern Ontario gold properties to concentrate on gold and base metal projects in the Canadian Arctic.

Dig It! Students get real work experience

By IAN ROSS Tree planting is a summertime right of passage for many students. It means a 6 a.m. wake-up in call rain, shine or sometimes even snow, followed by a bumpy bus ride down a washboard-surfaced logging road into a planting block.

Trainmaker in intense talks with TTC

By KELLY LOUISEIZE Howard Moscoe is passionate about spending public dollars in Ontario. “I don’t want to build my cars in a communist regime,” says the chair of the Toronto Transit Commission.

Winter drilling produces some ‘spectacular’ results

By KELLY LOUISEIZE A winter diamond drilling program has offered up a treasure trove of assays from the massive sulphide zone discovered on MetalCORP’s 100-per-cent owned Big Lake property.

$36M research centre in the works

By KELLY LOUISEIZE Thunder Bay may be launching a Molecular Research Centre of Excellence based on scientific partnerships and team spirit. A $6.

Tourism operators off the mark: Lakehead prof

By KELLY LOUISEIZE Tourism operators in Thunder Bay think they know their visitors’ motivations quite well, but a study indicates some in the industry may be ignoring their travellers’ wants.