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26.Serpent River First Nation pursues LED plant (www.elliotlakestandard.ca)
A 126-person light-source manufacturing plant is just one of the projects Serpent River First Nation (SRFN) has on its plate.
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Public Sector Salary Disclosure 2010 (Disclosure for 2009) : Municipalities and Services (www.fin.gov.on.ca)This category includes Ontario Municipalities and organizations providing municipal services, specifically: municipal police, libraries and transit systems.
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The members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees in Kapuskasing, Ontario - Local 369 - have preempted their upcoming contract negotiation by voting to freeze their own wages for a year.
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29.Has city laid off staff in snowless winter? -Maurice Laforest Val Caron (www.thesudburystar.com)
Just finished reading the Sault This Week newspaper and it says in one of their articles that the city is laying off 22 full-time workers until the end of April because of lack of snow this year.
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Expedition Helicopters expanding to Greenland (www.cochranetimespost.com)Expedition Helicopters, a chopper service company based in Cochrane, Ont., is branching out to provide services to Greenland.Joining forces with Greenland company Heli-Greenland, Expedition Helicopters will primarily provide support in the mining industry. Services will include staking, sampling, drill moves, camp relocations and aerial assessments.
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31.New shoppers drugmart heading downtown (www.thesudburystar.com)
The vacant corner at Frood Road and Elm Street, where the Odeon Theatre once stood, won't be vacant much longer.That's because construction is about to begin there on a Shoppers Drug Mart building.
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32.Tale of Two CEOs: One of Them Needs to Do Better (www.huffingtonpost.com)
Vale is a 67-year old Brazilian company that many people still remember as Companhia Vale do Rio Doce or CVRD, and that until fairly recently operated essentially only in Brazil.
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33.New grant program focuses on entrepreneurs in the North (www.timminspress.com)
Since 2003, the NOHFC has assisted 2,922 projects, approved more than $480 million in funding, and helped to created 12,664 jobs across Ontario.To find out more about the application process or for a complete list of programs, visit the NOHFC's website at www.nohfc.com, the local Ministry of Northern Development and Mines office, or the Business Enterprise Centre.
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Must View: Advertising Misinformation: How to Fake a Business District (weburbanist.com)When a city’s economy begins to fail, those in charge have some choices to make. Should they pump money into local businesses? Should they let the public see just how bad it’s getting? One town in England is taking a novel approach to the scores of closed-up shops on its main street
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Vale's offer (www.thesudburystar.com)This is the company'soffer to striking Steelworkers in Sudbury and PortColborne, as posted on Vale Inco's website.Message to Employees – March 7, 2010
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Timmins receives over $4 million form NOHFC (www.thedailypress.ca)Northern College received $1 million for the establishment of its Trade and Technology Centre, the Town of Hearst $828,000 for the development of a market square in its downtown core and $405,000 was given, and already used, for the upgrades to the McIntyre Arena in Timmins. Solar Power Solutions in Hearst, a business that will supply, install and service solar power systems received $125,000 and Advanteck Inc. in Timmins received $29,000.
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Learning Initiative (learninginitiative.ca)Learning Initiative is an unusual hybrid creature: we are a human resource development company, a school and a community all rolled into one
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District of Sudbury & Manitoulin Training and Adjustment Board - SMTAB (www.trainingboard.com)SMTAB is comprised of volunteers from communities within the districts of Sudbury and Manitoulin. The Directors represent a number of constituencies;currently, Business (8), Labour (8), Educators/Trainers (3), Francophones (1), Persons With Disabilities (1), and Women (1).
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YouTube Video - Roger Agnelli Portugese with Sub Titles (www.youtube.com)The president of Vale, Roger Agnelli, highlights the size of the market and its construction on a democratic basis
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Tending Greater Sudbury's 'economic garden' can lead to growth (www.northernlife.ca)Gibbons' idea of "high-powered help" is giving companies access to tools they normally wouldn't have, such as research help, helping the company come up in Google rankings, and expanding their social media presence and web marketing.
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The biggest impact banks have on the climate is through their continued financing of greenhouse gas intensive activities and projects, like new coal fired power plants.
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North Bay on the GO to help ONR land contract (www.thesudburystar.com)The city will offer its assistance again to Ontario Northland in lobbying for a second GO Transit refurbishment contract, says Mayor Vic Fedeli.
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Sudbury professor awarded $1M to study poverty, homelessness (www.northernlife.ca)Carol Kauppi, a social work professor at the University, was awarded the money to research poverty, homelessness, and migration issues in northern Ontario.
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City increases traffic fines and now needs more prosecutors (www.thesudburystar.com)The city's provincial offences prosecution office generates $1.5 million a year in net revenues, which goes straight to the city's operating budget.
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PBS Frontline: Design videos The Merchants of Cool (www.pbs.org)Teenagers are not generally viewers of FRONTLINE reports. And that's why we wanted to make an effort to get their views about this one, "The Merchants of Cool.
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Diversification helps Sudbury keep economy in check as Vale Inco strike drags on (www.thesudburystar.com)Three decades ago, a nine-month miners' strike in Sudbury devastated the northern Ontario city's economy and drove home the perils of being a one-industry town.
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47.Worker-Owned, Industrial-Size, Environmentally Sound Business Rises Up in Cleveland | | AlterNet (www.alternet.org)
The Evergreen Cooperative Laundry (ECL) in Cleveland is thoroughly green and worker-owned, and a blueprint for the future
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A Plan to Banish Economic Insecurity. Forever. (www.utne.com)Imagine a society where no one needs to fear economic destitution. Now try imagining that such a society is possible—without unemployment benefits or welfare programs.
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Transit fares to rise March 1 (www.thesudburystar.com)Cash fare: $2.50 for adults and students and $1.95 for older adults and those who qualify for special fares;- 5-ride card: $9.75 for adults and students and $7.25 for older adults and those who qualify for special fares;- 10-ride card: $19.50 for adults and students and $14.50 for older adults and those who qualify for special fares; and
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50.Vancouver counts the cost of high security - (ca.news.yahoo.com)
The Canadian government has budgeted C$900 million ($852.3 million) for security, compared to the C$580 million spent to build and upgrade the venues
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