At a press conference Friday morning the GSCC urged council to proceed with the immediate redevelopment and renewal of the Elisabella and Lapointe industrial parkland and enforced that the city should bear one hundred percent of the costs for the infrastructure upgrades for this specific area. While the chamber appreciates the objective of achieving a…
ISSUE: The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) has become a vast provincial government bureaucracy that is quickly becoming a danger to the Ontario government, taxpayers, businesses and insured workers. In fact, over the course of the last 25 years, the WSIB have had significant challenges fulfilling its obligations. BACKGROUND: In the 2009-2010 Annual Report…
The Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce (GSCC) is pleased with this morning’s announcement by Cliffs Natural Resources to design, build and operate a $1.8 billion chromite processing facility in Capreol. “The next chapter for the city and entire northern region begins in earnest today,” said Mark Weiman, Chair of the GSCC. “We look forward to…
2012 Bell Business Excellence Award Winners Entrepreneur of the Year – My Thai Palace / Pipat Sripimolphan (Sponsored by Royal Bank of Canada) Pipat Sripimolphan came from Thailand eight years ago and quickly established his first business in Toronto. Three years later, Pipat decided to open a restaurant in Sudbury. While other Asian restaurants may…
