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First Nation says restarting Fort Frances mill could damage other operators
FORT FRANCES, Ont., Thunder Bay Newswatch — A crack has developed in the efforts of the Town of read more…
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About 100 layoffs underway at Kenora, Ont., sawmill, Unifor says
CBC NEWS — A spokesperson for the union representing workers at the sawmill in Kenora, Ont., says he read more…
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COFI president happy to see the industry get helping hand
Susan Yurkovich, the president and CEO of the BC Council of Forest Industries is pleased with the government’s read more…
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B.C. Government outlines new forest worker support programs
The B.C. government has announced $69 million to fund a new series of measures aimed at supporting British read more…
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Fort Frances mill needs ‘hundreds of millions’ in repairs
FORT FRANCES, Ont., TBNewswatch — Resolute Forest Products said it spent almost $35 million to maintain its Fort read more…
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Kenora sawmill suspends production indefinitely
KENORA, Ont., TBNewswatch — Kenora Forest Products is blaming a weak lumber market and American lumber duties for read more…
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COFI Releases Plan to Secure a Strong, Competitive Forestry Future
Vancouver, B.C. – The BC Council of Forest Industries (COFI) has released a plan – “Smart Future: A read more…
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Forestry for the future campaign Launched — FPAC
Ottawa, Ontario: The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) has launched its Forestry for the Future campaign as read more…
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CO2 Solutions files for bankruptcy protection
QUEBEC CITY, CNW — CO2 Solutions Inc. has announced that it has filed a notice of intention to read more…
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B.C. set a new record for lightning strikes as quiet fire season winds down
VANCOUVER, THE TIMES-COLONIST — B.C. set a record for lightning strikes but enjoyed the quietest fire season in read more…
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Weyerhaeuser to sell Michigan timberlands
SEATTLE, Cision Newswire — Weyerhaeuser Company has announced an agreement to sell its 555,000 acres of Michigan timberlands read more…
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Northern Pulp suppliers, Indigenous leadership talk closure
THE CHRONICLE HERALD — Down a long Colchester County dirt road, there’s a fifth-generation family home with a read more…
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Curtailment at Kenora Forest Products Temporary – Bob Nault MP
KENORA – Bob Nault, Liberal Candidate for the Kenora riding, released the following statement regarding the temporary curtailment read more…
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Fewer trees, higher costs blamed for downturn in B.C. forestry
The Canadian Press — High log prices and dwindling timber supply are driving the crisis in British Columbia’s read more…
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Canfor applies for Federal workshare program
The Vanderhoof Omineca Express — Canfor officials spent last week finishing up the necessary paperwork to have the read more…
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Forest industry workers call on B.C. for policy change
CBC NEWS — Job losses are mounting as mills close across British Columbia and some of the thousands read more…
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Weston Forest Ranks No. 351 on the 2019 Growth 500
Mississauga, ON Canadian Business and Maclean’s ranked Weston Forest No. 351 on the annual Growth 500, the definitive read more…
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$22 Million Investment Puts 1,000 Contracted Workers on the Job at Irving Pulp & Paper
SAINT JOHN, New Brunswick, GLOBE NEWSWIRE — Over 1,000 contractors from 45 companies from St. Stephen to Bathurst read more…
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Tolko closing Kelowna lumber mill for ‘indeterminate period’
Vancouver Sun — Persistently low lumber prices and high log costs make operations uneconomic, said a Tolko vice-president, read more…
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Premier Ford attends Canada’s largest outdoor farm show
WOODSTOCK — Premier Doug Ford and Ernie Hardeman, Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, met with farmers read more…
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Husqvarna invests in autonomous technology company
Husqvarna Group has announced it will join Semcon and Øveraasen as owners of Yeti Snow Technology which develops read more…
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SOFTWOOD LUMBER PRICE MOVEMENTS REMAIN CRYPTIC: 3Q 2019
The first full back-to-work / school week for September 2019 did not bode well for North American construction read more…
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Hundreds of jobs on the line amid latest blow to B.C. forestry sector
Global TV News — Trouble in B.C.’s forestry sector continues, with yet another curtailment being announced that could read more…
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EACOM celebrates 70 years in Nairn Centre
Nairn Centre, -–The small Nairn Centre sawmill that founders Myron Austin and Benjamin F. Merwin established in 1949 read more…
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N.W.T.’s record wildfire season is tipping point for boreal forest
CBC NEWS — Canada’s boreal forests are producing more carbon than they capture during bad forest-fire years, and read more…