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Montreal lockout shuts down major Canadian port - (www.thesudburystar.com)About 850 longshoremen were locked out of the Port of Montreal Monday morning by the Maritime Employers Association, shutting down the country's second-largest port.
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GREATER SUDBURY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ISSUES QUARTERLY REPORT (www.city.greatersudbury.on.ca)Other projects also received grants, ranging from $5,000 to the Flour Mill Silo Restoration Study, to $20,000 for the Cambrian Sustainable Energy Centre to construct a prototype of a high efficiency heat battery, $41,000 to the Cultural Mapping Project, and $55,000 for Music and Film in Motion to continue its outreach projects and marketing activities.
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Nickel Basin (www.nickelbasin.com)The Nickel Basin Federal Development Corporation (Nickel Basin) is an incorporated, not-for-profit organization that was created in September 2000, with a mandate to administer a community loan fund in support of small and medium-sized businesses. Nickel Basin is funded through Industry Canada and FedNor (federal government), to provide funding and advice, to promote economic growth and diversification that creates and maintains jobs in and around the City of Greater Sudbury.
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2009 Agriculture Study (www.nodn.com)The purpose of this study is to provide a profile of agriculture in seven different districts in Northwestern Ontario along with an estimate of the economic impact of agriculture on the wider economy. These seven districts include: Thunder Bay, Kenora, Rainy River, Cochrane, Temiskaming, Blue Sky, and Algoma/Manitoulin.
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Trade Northern Ontario - TNO - Your Exporting Resource in Northern Ontario (www.tradenorthernontario.com)Trade Northern Ontario (TNO) is a program that assists businesses in Northern Ontario initiate, expand or increase their export opportunities through trade.
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6.Vale's Ontario operations to be smaller; workers who retired won't be replaced - Winnipeg Free Press (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
Mining giant Vale says it won't replace about 500 workers who retired during a year-long strike at the former Inco's operations in Ontario.Vale wouldn't specify how many people it intends to employ as the operations ramp back up to full production following worker ratification of a new agreement, but it's clear it will be fewer than the more than 3,000 who went on strike last July.
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7.Venezuela slum takes socialism beyond Chavez - (ca.news.yahoo.com)
"We are creating a popular bank and are going to issue a communal currency: little pieces of cardboard," says Salvador Rooselt, a soft-spoken 24-year-old law student and community leader who often quotes Lenin and Marx.
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8.Must View:David Barrie: Shops as entertainment spaces (davidbarrie.typepad.com)
Last May, Turner Prize Award-winning artist Jeremy Dellar created an allotment garden for luxury retailer Louis Vuitton outside their new store in the Westfield London Shopping Centre.
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Sudbury explains taxes (www.northernlife.ca)Repairs to city roads, police services, public transit and fire services are but four of the many services paid for by the city residents through the annual payment of city taxes
The city has recently sent out a pamphlet to city homes, providing a break down of city taxes as well as how different parts of the city are taxed. -
10.Adjustment committee to present final report -- (www.thesudburystar.com)
The Community Adjustment Committee will present its final report at council's regular meeting Wednesday. Among the recommendations stemming from the group's work over the past year is building a regional data centre in Sudbury and a multipurpose community and convention centre downtown, a project dubbed the Sudbury Synergy Project.
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- Feds provide $975,000 for local projects (www.northernlife.ca)Projects funded included:
-$85,000 to the Art Gallery of Sudbury to allow it to complete a business plan and concept design for a new site
-$122,500 to the city for development of a new plan and action strategy to help revitalize the downtown district
-$121,337 to the Grassroots Economic Opportunity Development and Evaluation (GEODE) project to support the non-profit organization's Stepping Stone Loan program for new entrepreneurs -
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Huntsville revelling in $50-million worth of G8 summit largesse (www.theglobeandmail.com)They are calling it “The Great Wall of Huntsville.”Unlike its Chinese namesake, this one dates back only a few days, not to the 5th century BC, and will mercifully disappear shortly after the June 25-26 G8 summit is over – but for the moment it sets a world standard for ugly.
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Fake lake reflects badly on spend-happy Tories (fullcomment.nationalpost.com)It’s amazing what an extra $1.9 million can do to stir up controversy on something that is already costing $1.2 billion to taxpayers
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15.More Voisey's Bay workers on strike . (www.thesudburystar.com)
Another group of Vale employees in Canada are on strike.According to a radio report Tuesday, Ushitau Maintenance employees at Vale's Voisey's Bay Mine site are on strike.
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16.GEODE Sudbury in search of entrepreneurs - (www.thesudburystar.com)
Sudbury's community economic development group is looking for aspiring entrepreneurs.GEODE Sudbury will be at area malls during the next few weeks to sign people up for the re-launch of the Stepping Stones Entrepreneurship Program.
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One city councillor wants North Bay to take advantage of the province's offer allowing municipalities to add unpaid parking tickets and other traffic fines to the property tax bill.
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18.Service Canada closures (89mix.blogspot.com)
Service Canada has announced plans to close several Employment Insurance Claim processing sites in Northern Ontario.
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19.Hornepayne on the verge of collapse (www.thesudburystar.com)
With a population of 1,200, the northwestern community of Hornepayne is a tiny place with one big problem.A key part of its town's infrastructure is housed in a bankrupt building.
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Ontario | CUPE (cupe.ca)Sudbury municipal workers to enter conciliation talks following solid strike mandate
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21.Timmins Smelter shutdown leads to increase in domestic violence (www.timminstimes.com)
The closing the Xstrata Kidd Smelter is having more than just a negative economic impact in Timmins.The economic stress in the community has also lead to a rise in domestic violence, according to Timmins Police Chief Richard Laperriere.
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22.Province funds solar panel manufacturer in Sault (www.thesudburystar.com)
A solar module manufacturing plant slated to open in September will receive $2.5 million from the provincial government.MPP David Orazietti made the announcement Friday at the Allen's Side Road site of the project by Heliene Canada.
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23.HST to cost city $450K annually (www.thesudburystar.com)
tarting July 1, the city will have to start collecting HST for the province on a wide range of services the province did not previously tax. That means the tax rates for city services ranging from recreational sports to parking permits to cemetery plots will jump to 13%, from the current 5%.
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24.Sudbury poised for more development - Mayor John Rodriguez - (www.thesudburystar.com)
When a developer makes the decision to take a project from a paper concept and an empty parcel of land to a finished home, subdivision, commercial or industrial development, it demonstrates a lot of confidence in the future of our city.
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LaRo Construction (www.laroconstruction.com)Northern Ontario's fastest growing General Contracting Company
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