Thunder Bay

For 11 years, the Northwestern Ontario Innovation Centre has been a source of motivation and support to many first-time entrepreneurs with big ideas.

Take four long-time friends, add a passion for beer and adventure, let that ferment for a couple of years and the result is refreshing, unfiltered success.

The Port of Thunder Bay is now armed with some heavy-duty cargo-handling capability. Local port authority officials and dignitaries cut the ribbon on a new Liebherr LHM 320 mobile crane which arrived at Keefer Terminal over the summer.

The Aditya Birla Group of India is the new owner of the shuttered Terrace Bay pulp mill. The Ontario government is expected to make the announcement in Thunder Bay , July 5.

Pursuing a career in forestry for J.P. (Jean Paul) Gladu seemed almost preordained in following in the logging footsteps of his grandfather and father.

It's rare to find a company whose employ­ees have a high level of pride in what they do, and enjoy coming into work every day to do it. Bombardier Transportation in Thunder Bay is one of those companies.

The Port of Thunder Bay is facing a monumental year of change beginning this summer with the end of the Canadian Wheat Board's monopoly on wheat and barley exports.

When Dan and David Stezenko started in the grocery business, among the lessons preached by their father was not to take customers for granted, and don't take anything as a given.

Thunder Bay 's Lakehead University is laying the groundwork to develop a centre of excellence in mineral exploration.

When northwestern Ontario's forest industry began taking a dive during the last decade, Grant Brodeur could see the writing on the wall.