Thunder Bay

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.

By IAN ROSS TBay Tel has reached into the private sector to find an energetic new chief executive to push forward its performance-driven culture.

By IAN ROSS Thunder Bay’s emerging biotechnology, molecular research and high tech sectors are grabbing the media headlines. But the heart and soul of any city is the manufactured goods it produces.

By IAN ROSS A small Thunder Bay company with ambitious plans to bring a manure and sludge digester to market is poised to strike a deal with a major energy partner. Last month, EEC Energy Corp.

By Nick Stewart Increases to commercial property taxes throughout Ontario have left business owners upset about a lack of consideration from municipal and provincial governments.