Thunder Bay

By IAN ROSS The explosion of worldwide container traffic and the exacting manufacturing demands for just-in-time efficiencies has the Thunder Bay Port Authority investigating new ways to attract shippers and carriers to the historic grain handling fa

By NICK STEWART With numerous styles, types and price ranges varying wildly between hundreds to thousands of dollars, purchasing golf clubs can be a bewildering experience even for the seasoned golfer.

By NICK STEWART With a mandate of improving the quality of life of its First Nations stakeholders, Thunder Bay’s Lynx North Engineering has spent the last 11 years on projects ranging from basic development planning to full-scale water treatment faci

By IAN ROSS Alberta’s runaway oil and gas industry has stretched its labour and manufacturing capacity to its limits.

By IAN ROSS A year after Cascades Inc. padlocked operations at their Thunder Bay coated paper mill and put 500 workers out of work, new investors with deep pockets and industry savvy are poised to re-open it.

By IAN ROSS Building safer and stronger commuter rail cars to lessen the collision forces on passengers is the basis of a proposed research project between Bombardier and Thunder Bay’s Lakehead University and Confederation College.

By IAN ROSS An award-winning Lakehead University wood scientist is lending his expertise to industry to help grow the next generation of forest products entrepreneurs. Dr.

By IAN ROSS Thunder Bay taxpayers and developers will get their first glimpse this winter at the completed multi-million dollar vision for a tourism and family attraction to expand a waterfront park.

By IAN ROSS When Dr. Rui Wang took the reins as Lakehead University’s vice-president of research in 2004, the stated goal was to strive toward being among the top 25 research universities in Canada.

New entrepreneurs are strange creatures. They delight in the passion of the project, cut themselves off unwittingly from friends and family, and navigate into corners without optional strategies.