Welcome to North Bay Gateway Casinos and Entertainment Limited. Last Friday morning at the official ground-breaking ceremonies on Pinewood Park Drive, the City and Province welcomed Gateway and the OLG for the announcement of the Casino starting construction. Site...
North Bay Clean Green and Beautiful
Slowly but surely, we are getting closer to some summer weather and with that warmer and hopefully drier conditions, many of the communities within our district will return to normal after the flooding and high-water levels that have been experienced. To all the...
Be Careful What You Wish For
Many of the old adages that are thrown around daily, continue to have relevance in much of our lives, every day. One of these such adages being; “in a progressive country…change is constant…change… is inevitable”. The quote from Benjamin Disraeli, a British...
Businesses Need Less Red Tape from Government
Congratulations to Cementation’s Roy Slack on taking over the reins as President of the Canadian Institute for Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, also known as CIM. It is a great honor for our community to have the former President of Cementation as the incoming...
Congratulations Bobby Ray – Looking forward to FiftyTwoCoffees 2.0
Congratulations to Bobby Ray from the North Bay Granite Club for not only being nominated for a prestigious award, but for also winning that award on Saturday evening. The Chair person for the Young Professionals of the North Bay & District Chamber of Commerce,...
Clean Green and Beautiful Initiative Coming Soon
Mark your calendars for May 7, 2019. Clean, Green and Beautiful, a grass roots movement spearheaded by Hariett Madigan and her various community volunteer groups, will present at Council on that evening. Clean, Green and Beautiful will launch a community action...
Welcoming the DIA in their co-location at the Chamber office
Back from holidays and a huge thank you to Patti Carr, VP Policy and Communications and our Administrative Assistant, Sue Adams for holding down the fort, while I was gone. Lots of things happening while I was gone including, preparing for our 123rd Annual General...
Kudos to Organizers of Workforce Week and the Provincial Budget
Guest column by Patti Carr Kudos to all those involved with Workforce Week 2019. In particular, the Labour Market Group, who organizes this week annually and includes numerous employment service teams to ensure that job seekers have the necessary skills and...
It’s Workforce Week 2019
Guest column by Patti Carr For more information visit: www.thelabourmarketgroup.ca We are now well into April, but for those that are tired of the snow like I am, there are a couple positive outcomes to this unusual winter. The Ski Hill has enjoyed a longer season...
Thank you North Bay Battalion for a great season!
Congratulations to the Coach Stan Butler and the North Bay Battalion for an entertaining 2018-19 season. Although the Battalion were eliminated on Friday night by the Niagara Ice Dogs, there were many highlights to the season, especially the play of Justin...