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Dec 12, 18 •
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AgMedica Bioscience is expanding. The Chatham-based licensed producer of medicinal cannabis is acquiring two indoor processing facilities, designed to bolster the company’s future production and cultivation capabilities and supplement its existing...
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Dec 5, 18 •
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General Motors’ planned idling of five auto plants, including one in Oshawa, Ont., will be felt locally. That according to Stuart McFadden, director of economic development for the municipality. GM announced last week it planned to shut the plants at the...
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Nov 28, 18 •
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Helping to improve the economic development of rural areas, the RED (Rural Economic Development) Program is assisting the Southern First Nations Secretariat to the tune of $73,860. The RED program funds projects that stimulate economic growth in Ontario’s...
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Nov 13, 18 •
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Home sales were brisk in October, but they couldn’t match the record month set a year ago. According to information from the Chatham-Kent Association of Realtors, 110 units sold last month, but that’s down nearly 13 per cent from the all-time hottest...
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Oct 31, 18 •
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Stuart McFadden, who for two years has been called the acting director of economic development for the municipality, is getting a shorter title. He’s now the director of economic development. McFadden, a former Wallaceburg business owner who joined the...
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Oct 31, 18 •
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Two local companies, TekSavvy and Canquest, had deputations at last week’s federal hearings on sales practices by Canada’s telecommunications firms. The CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) hearings lasted five days as...
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Oct 30, 18 •
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The Chatham-Kent Chamber of Commerce and the Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC) back the provincial government in its Making Ontario Open for Business Act. The announcement included a near full repeal of Bill 148, dissolution of the Ontario College of Trades...
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Oct 30, 18 •
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Companies who participated in last week’s CK Works Community Job Fair saw some heavy foot traffic pop by. Organizers anticipated more than 500 job seekers would come through the John D. Bradley Convention Centre Oct. 23 for the afternoon event that featured...
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Oct 24, 18 •
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Mainstreet Credit Union staff, from left, Crystal Hollingsworth, Kelsey Kucharski, Bonnie Gallagher, Shawn Bustin and Marilee St. Pierre help place mulch at the base of dozens of trees in Kingston Park Oct. 18. The work was part of a variety of tasks...
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Oct 23, 18 •
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The Wallaceburg & District Chamber of Commerce has announced the finalists for its 21st annual awards event. For the Agricultural Award/Industrial, Kim O’Neil, Rulmeca Canada and McBrayne Feed & Supply are nominated. Authier Print & Promotional,...
