Timmins

Training in heavy equipment operation and commercial driving developed by Northern College in Timmins will soon be available through Cambrian College in Sudbury. The two colleges will sign a memorandum of understanding cementing the collaboration.

Chartrand Equipment in Timmins has gone into receivership, owing more than $15 million to a long list of secured and unsecured creditors. The application for the receivership order was made by TD Bank on Oct. 18. BDO Canada Ltd.

A leaders’ forum will be held in Timmins on Dec. 6 to advance the objectives of the Growth Plan for Northern Ontario .

Timmins is one of the top places in Canada to do business. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) released their annual rankings of cities and their entrepreneurial activity and strategies.

Twenty economic development and infrastructure projects in Cochrane , Timmins and Kapuskasing have garnered a $2.3-million investment from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corp. (NOHFC).

The Timmins Chamber of Commerce has elected seven individuals to sit on its 21-member board.

Porter Airlines is increasing service between Timmins and Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, with a fourth daily flight beginning Sept. 3.

The 100 head of cattle may be gone at the Kapuskasing Beef Research Farm, but the facility is far from shutting its doors for good.

Peregrine falcons, bank swallows and bats are some of the animals getting a helping hand from a Timmins mining operation.

When John Crescenzi, manager of the Timmins Holiday Inn Express Hotel and Suites , put a call out to meet with other hoteliers earlier this spring, he wasn’t sure what to expect. He was pleasantly surprised when all but two came together.