Northern Ontario Business (NOB)

For more than 30 years, Northern Ontario Business (NOB) has served as the sole media outlet focused on the business community in Northern Ontario. It delivers essential news and important information, along with updates on events for the region's key business leaders and decision-makers. By concentrating exclusively on Northern Ontario's business landscape, NOB has become the trusted source for relevant stories, industry trends, forecasts, useful statistics, and essential online services that engage its audience.

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Pro-mining message lands with northern educators

1 week ago | northernontariobusiness.com | Lindsay Kelly

The Ontario Mining Association (OMA) is enlisting the help of a new ally in the ongoing quest to recruit workers to the mining industry: teachers. In April, the organization, in co-operation with Mining Matters and the Canadian Ecology Centre, hosted a group of high school educators at Agnico Eagle's Detour Lake Mine to get a first-hand look at what it's like to work there.
Doug Ford: First Nations can’t come ‘hat in hand’ to government and not support mining

1 week ago | northernontariobusiness.com | Ian Ross

Premier Doug Ford said First Nations can’t keep coming “hat in hand” to government for assistance when there’s untapped precious and critical minerals on their traditional lands. Ford made the comment in St. Catharines, June 18, to announce housing funding from the Building Faster Fund for three Niagara Region communities.
Ford to meet with Indigenous leaders on pro-mining legislation

1 week ago | northernontariobusiness.com | Ian Ross

Premier Doug Ford plans to meet with influential Indigenous leaders this week to smooth over any bitter feelings from First Nations sparked by the passage of his government’s contentious Bill 5.
The Veldman brothers, BMI Group financing restart of Michigan specialty paper mill

2 weeks ago | northernontariobusiness.com | Ian Ross

The impact of the pandemic and the boom in takeout food delivery has spurred the restart of a Port Huron, Mich., paper mill owned by the Veldman brothers’ BMI Group. Four years after being mothballed, the former Domtar mill in the Michigan border town is coming back to life thanks to a resurgence in the sustainable, lightweight specialty papers used in fast-food restaurant packaging, candy wrappers, medical table covers, tissue overwraps, and other sustainable uses.
Ring of Fire road reaches milestone

2 weeks ago | northernontariobusiness.com | Steve Cornwell |Jessica Cross

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a Village Media website devoted exclusively to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park. Webequie First Nation has released an environmental report on a road between its community and mineral deposits in the Ring of Fire, a key step toward opening the region to mining development.
Cambrian College's $41.8M surplus another record, but it's ‘coming to an end’

3 weeks ago | northernontariobusiness.com | Heidi Ulrichsen

Despite changes to federal international student policy gutting the post-secondary sector, Cambrian College posted a record surplus, coming in at almost $41.8 million for the 2024-2025 financial year. Audited by KPMG, the college’s financial statements for the financial year ending on March 31 were approved by Cambrian’s board of governors at their June 4 meeting.
Batchawana Bay is big-time copper country to Sterling Metals

3 weeks ago | northernontariobusiness.com | Ian Ross

Sterling Metals, a junior miner that’s probing around a former copper mining camp, north of Sault Ste. Marie, made an impressive hit on its very first drill hole this spring. The Toronto exploration outfit pulled a lengthy core sample showing 359.3 metres of copper mineralization, grading 0.36 per cent, taken at its Soo Copper Project in the Batchewana Bay area, 80 kilometres north of the city. The discovery was made just 14 metres below surface.
Tariff specialist launches Orillia consulting firm amid global trade shifts

3 weeks ago | northernontariobusiness.com | Tyler Evans |Orillia Matters

Kyle Peacock has spent decades preparing for this moment, and it couldn’t come at a more opportune time. The Orillia-born trade expert has officially launched Peacock Tariff Consulting, a new firm focused on helping businesses and individuals navigate the once-overlooked but increasingly critical world of international tariffs and duties.
Work starts on Timmins airport upgrades

3 weeks ago | northernontariobusiness.com | Maija Hoggett

TIMMINS - Work is starting on a project that will see the airport expanded and upgraded. J.L. Richards and Associates picked up the $188,458 project to design facade improvements and an addition to the Victor M. Power Airport. “Through the airport master plan, it was highlighted that the Timmins airport needed some renovations to accommodate expansion and do some improvements just to address the future needs,” Scott Tam, director of growth and infrastructure, told council on May 27.
WestJet bringing back direct flights to Calgary

4 weeks ago | northernontariobusiness.com | Leith Dunick

THUNDER BAY — WestJet has reinstated direct flights to Calgary from Thunder Bay. Thunder Bay International Airports Authority officials, in a Facebook post, said the flights will depart three times a week in May and June, and daily in July and August. "It's a perfect opportunity to streamline your business trips, visit family or even make it to the Calgary Stampede this summer," reads the post.