Sept-Iles News

Consolidated Thompson Iron Mines Ltd is pleased to announce that it has signed a long term lease agreement with Port of Sept-Iles allowing CLM to proceed with the construction of a lay down area and the utilization of the port docking facilities at Pointe Noire.

Robert Lemieux, the radical Montreal lawyer who made his reputation defending FLQ terrorists in the 1960s and '70s, was found dead at his house in Sept Iles Monday.

The retired Mountie who interrogated notorious serial killer Allan Legere says Corrections Canada is making a mistake in transferring him out of a special holding unit at a Quebec prison.

My religious upbringing in Toronto was casually Protestant. My family was divided between atheism and agnosticism, and I followed rather unthinkingly and inactively in those paths into my 20s.

Claude Bechard, Quebec's environment minister, said yesterday the missing ingredient in the federal government's proposed Clean Air Act is the $328-million federal contribution to Quebec's Kyoto plan.

A small group of residents interested in the proposed Lower Churchill Hydroelectric Generation project showed up at the Labrador Interpretation Centre last Monday night to listen to details of the project and learn about the environmental assessment process.

Sasha Kozak chose dance over golf; choreographer Julie Lebel innovates behind the scenes.

A photo of the Riviere Romaine in July 2008. The Innu of Uashat Mani-Utenam want a permanent injunction to stop the construction of the Romaine project, a $6.5-billion plan to build four dams along the waterway and produce 1,550-megawatts of power starting in 2020.

Wabush Mines in western Labrador is increasing production and recalling 120 unionized workers who had been laid off in the spring.

Consolidated Thompson Iron Mines Limited is pleased to announce the results of drilling campaigns, spread over 2007 and 2008 on its Lamelee property, which increased the indicated resources to 642 million tonnes.

Officials from the Passport Canada Mobile Passport Unit will be in Baie-Comeau on August 25 and in Sept-Iles on August 26 to review and accept completed passport applications.

The military funeral for Corporal Christian Bobbitt will be held on Tuesday, August 11, 2009, at 11:00 a.m., in Sainte-Jeanne d'Arc Chapel, located on the Valcartier Garrison, near Quebec City.

The military funeral for Corporal Christian Bobbitt will be held on Tuesday, August 11, 2009, at 11:00 a.m., in Sainte-Jeanne d'Arc Chapel, located on the Valcartier Garrison, near Quebec City.

Canadian military officials have identified the second soldier killed in Afghanistan on Saturday as Sapper Matthieu Allard, of the 5th Combat Engineers Regiment.

Tears streaked the faces of normally stoic Canadian soldiers Sunday as they carried the bodies of two young comrades to their final journey home.

Canadian lawyer Cynthia Morel, who was born in Sept Iles, Quebec, grew up in Fredericton and studied at the University of Ottawa, is involved in some potential landmark international law cases in defence of minority rights around the world.

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The Minister of State , the Honourable Denis Lebel, invite media to an important infrastructure announcement.

Canada's Transport Minister, John Baird, announced today $5.8 million in federal funding to the Tshiuetin Rail Transportation - a passenger and freight rail company owned and operated by three First Nations communities - for capital improvements to improve the rail line and the passenger rail service between Sept-Iles and Schefferville.

A new $664 million iron ore mine is starting up in Quebec-Labrador late this year and will swiftly hit the target annual output of eight million tonnes destined for Chinese and other Asian steel mills on long-term contract.