The city is on the right track as it reviews heavy industry taxation, according to a group of citizens watching the process with concern over residential tax bills.

WASHINGTON – American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) President and CEO Heidi Brock issued the following statement regarding continuing negotiations to ratify the U.S. – Mexico – Canada trade agreement:

The long-standing softwood lumber trade dispute between Canada and the US is far from over and local companies continue to face economic challenges, while the MP for Desnethé -Missinippi-Churchill River is calling for a quick settlement to matters.

More than 200 Vancouver Island forest contractors and suppliers gathered at the B.C. legislature Wednesday to call for relief for an industry that has left them out of work for months.

CORNER BROOK, N.L. — Union leaders and the City of Corner Brook aren’t panicking over upcoming changes at the Corner Brook Pulp and Paper mill.

The catchy subtitle, “20 years of research shows marine ecosystem can handle Northern Pulp waste,” on Jim Williams' Dec. 7 opinion piece oversimplified his statements concerning the effluent from Boat Harbour.

The CAQ-lead Ministry of Forests, Fauna and Parcs in Quebec announced last week that they have decided to re-purpose nearly 46,000 hectares of previously-protected, endangered caribou land to be deforested in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region.

EACOM Timber Corp. and the United Steelworkers (USW) union have ratified a six-year agreement for employees at the company’s Timmins sawmill.

THUNDER BAY — The Ministry of Labour is investigating an industrial accident at Resolute Forest Products' Thunder Bay sawmill.

December 12, 2019 – Vancouver, British Columbia – Western Forest Products Inc. (TSX: WEF) (“Western” or the “Company”) announced today that independent mediators Vince Ready and Amanda Rogers today informed the Company and the United Steelworkers Local 1-1937 (“USW”) that due to personal circumstances, meetings between the parties will resume next week.

Fortress Global Enterprises Inc. announces that it has failed to receive any indications of interest pursuant to its previously announced strategic and financing initiativeby the required deadline under the financing agreement entered into among the Company's wholly owned subsidiaries, Fortress Specialty Cellulose Inc. and Fortress Bioenergy Ltd., and their secured lenders or their affiliates.

KINGSEY FALLS, QC , Dec. 11, 2019 - Cascades Inc. (TSX: CAS), a leader in eco-friendly recycling, packaging and hygiene solutions, announced today that it is exercising its option to purchase the interest of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) in Greenpac Holding LLC ("Greenpac").

Vancouver, BC, Canada — Canfor Corporation (TSX:CFP) (“Canfor”) announces the results of reports issued by independent proxy advisory firms, Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (“ISS”) and Egan-Jones Proxy Services (“Egan-Jones”), both of which have recommended that Canfor shareholders vote FOR the proposed plan of arrangement (the “Arrangement”) with 1227738 B.C. Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Great Pacific Capital Corp. (“Great Pacific”).

Letting forest fires burn, or even intentionally setting them, has often been considered good forest management. But that policy has become problematic as more and more people build homes in forested areas.

The Ontario government’s latest plan to open the province to unfettered business predictably tries to pave the way to logging more forests.

CORNER BROOK, N.L. — Employees at Corner Brook Pulp and Paper will be getting some unexpected time off during the upcoming holiday period.

Resolute Forest Products is 'disappointed' by this morning's split decision from the Supreme Court of Canada.

Two forest-product companies are on the hook for maintaining a mercury waste site near Ontario's Grassy Narrows First Nation, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.

GREEN BAY - Green Bay Packaging Inc. officials on Monday celebrated a major environmental milestone in the construction of the company's new $500-million paper mill.

A new version of the FSC Canada National Risk Assessment (NRA) has been approved and is in effect as of November 5, 2019.

At the beginning of this week, international technology Group ANDRITZ welcomed a delegation of more than 25 experts from different mills and locations of the Mondi Group at its headquarters in Graz to discuss major technology trends and the latest innovations in the pulp and paper industries.