Thunder Bay

By NICK STEWART In a fiercely competitive industry, brothers Harvey and Cliff Friesen have used their entrepreneurial gusto to keep their company, Bearskin Airlines, soaring for nearly 40 years.

By IAN ROSS The Anishinabek Nation has unveiled a bold economic plan to eradicate poverty among its 42 Ontario communities over the next two decades.

By IAN ROSS The first step in a massive five-year makeover of the former Port Arthur waterfront begins this summer. Once the frost leaves and construction begins on a new skateboard/BMX park at Marina Park.

By IAN ROSS For Andre Nicol, the months of organizing the finances to reopen the former Cascades paper mill is over. The heavy lifting of restarting plant machinery now begins.

By IAN ROSS A Sudbury junior took home top honours for its discovery of a nickel-copper discovery in northwestern Ontario.

Silvio Di Gregorio is one of of the Thunder Bay's biggest promoters.

By IAN ROSS If this newfangled forest bio-economy grows any roots in Ontario, its research and commercialization hub will be Thunder Bay.

By IAN ROSS Thunder Bay is going to transform its economy, and it's going to do it sooner than later. That well-worn story of Thunder Bay as a battered forestry mill town with hundreds of lost jobs? It's yesterday's news.

By IAN ROSS Jon Wynn is a true believer in the power of the web. For years, his Thunder Bay store, Gear It Up for Outdoors, was bumping along, losing money or barely breaking even.

By IAN ROSS What makes an effective leader is a question that constantly swirls inside Bryan Poulin's head.