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A managerial shakeup has brought Hudbay a new Manitoba boss. Rob Winton has been appointed vice-president, Manitoba Business Unit, at the company, replacing the recently promoted Brad Lantz.

An inability to get copper and zinc to market from Flin Flon held Hudbay’s earnings to a modest $300,000 in the second quarter. But any profit was welcome after the company lost $27.

Hudbay’s Lalor project was last week fast approaching the ultimate milestone for a mine. “We should be fully in full production by early August,” Alan Hair, Hudbay’s senior vice president and chief operating officer, told a media conference call.

“First Nations poverty is the single greatest social issue in Canada today,” Angus Toulouse, Regional First Nations Chief of Ontario, said in a 2006 speech.

She may only be 16, but Juri Sugihara’s epic journey to Flin Flon was decades in the making.

A new seven-figure federal-provincial investment aims to boost the competitiveness of northern Saskatchewan’s forestry sector.

For a community that hasn’t so much as flirted with another party in more than four decades, Flin Flon sure has a love-hate relationship with the NDP.

City’s overall rate up even as violent offences plunge

As much as they hope they never see it in person, residents were eager Wednesday to learn more about Flin Flon’s long-sought new emergency room.

News briefs • The first cadet training centre in northern Manitoba has opened in Cross Lake. It will serve the members of the only Royal Canadian Army Cadet program in an Aboriginal community in Manitoba.