Ignace is the place for a nuclear waste storage site
Nov 28, 2024 · The Ignace-Wabigoon area in northwestern Ontario will be the host area for a nuclear waste repository. After a 14-year site selection process, the area between Ignace and Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation was selected by the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) as the site for a deep nuclear waste repository, in a Nov. 28 announcement.
Ontario missing strategy to match immigration to labour market …
Dec 6, 2024 · EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a Village Media website devoted exclusively to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park.. Immigrants nominated for permanent residency under Ontario’s provincial program aren’t always going to the regions or sectors that need them the most, a new auditor general report found.
Proposed Thunder Bay lithium refinery will have ‘multiplier effect’ …
Oct 10, 2024 · Avalon Advanced Materials is building its case for a Thunder Bay lithium refinery. The Toronto lithium company has been churning out a steady news flow in September and into this month touting the economic and spinoff benefits that a lithium hydroxide processing plant would bring to the city and region.. In its latest news release, Avalon said a consultant’s report shows the refinery will ...
North Bay film projects net $2.5M in provincial funds
Dec 2, 2024 · Four film and television projects being shot in and around North Bay will share in $2.5 million from the province. Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli announced the funds, on behalf of the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund, in North Bay on Nov. 29.
EllisDon chosen as contractor to build passenger rail platforms
Dec 6, 2024 · EllisDon has been awarded the contract to install new platforms for Northlander passenger rail service in Northern Ontario.. The Mississauga-headquartered contractor will install platforms at stops in North Bay, Temagami, Temiskaming Shores, Englehart, Kirkland Lake, Matheson and Cochrane, in addition to pre-manufactured shelters at stops in Matheson, Kirkland Lake, Temiskaming Shores and ...
Northern Ontario celebrates its tourism champions
Dec 6, 2024 · Nature and Outdoor Tourism Ontario (NOTO) celebrated its 2024 tourism champions in November.. The organization, which represents the interests of nature and outdoor tourism operators in Ontario, presented its awards during the Northern Ontario Tourism Summit, held Nov. 19-21 in North Bay. The awards and their winners follow:
Freeland emphatic new TTC cars be built in Thunder Bay
Nov 29, 2024 · TORONTO — Canada’s deputy prime minister says she expects Toronto’s new subway cars will be built at Thunder Bay’s Alstom plant. Chrystia Freeland made the proclamation on Friday, Nov. 29, after the federal government announced $758 million in funding to help cover some of the $2.3 billion in expected costs to replace the Toronto Transit Commission’s Line 2 Bloor-Danforth subway cars.
Voisey’s Bay transitions to underground mining
Dec 5, 2024 · Voisey’s Bay Mine in northern Labrador has transitioned to underground mining from open pit, after Vale Base Metals invested US$2.94 billion to expand the operation.. Underway since 2018, the Voisey’s Bay Mine Expansion Project involved the development of two underground mines — Reid Brook and Eastern Deeps — which will feed Vale’s Long Harbour Processing Plant, described by the ...
Northwest miners connect with suppliers at Reverse Expo
Dec 5, 2024 · THUNDER BAY — Think of Wednesday’s Reverse Expo as speed dating for companies in the minerals sector. Four mining companies came to a Thunder Bay hotel ballroom and gave presentations to local companies that supply and service the sector.
MPP wants mandatory winter driving training for new truck drivers
Dec 4, 2024 · TORONTO — A northern politician is pushing for mandatory winter driving simulation training for new truck drivers in an aim to improve safety on Ontario’s highways.