(April 20, 2021) VANCOUVER, BC – The First Nations Forestry Council has announced three new partnerships with Mosaic Forest Management, Tolko Industries Ltd. (Tolko), and Western Forest Products Inc. through the Indigenous Forestry Scholarship Program (IFSP).

GreenFirst to Acquire Forest and Paper Products Assets in Ontario and Québec with expectation to become top-ten lumber producer in Canada and Announces proposed Debt and Equity Financings

An article titled “Modern paper use is wildly unsustainable” recently appeared in Popular Science. Two Sides responded to the publication to set the record straight.

New Brunswick is receiving no extra royalties from forestry companies for trees cut on crown land this year, even though prices for lumber made from those trees are at record highs.

KINGSEY FALLS, QC, April 16, 2021 - Cascades (CAS: TSX), a recovery, green packaging and hygiene solutions leader, invites you to its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, to be held in virtual form on Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 2 p.m. 

Across British Columbia, important discussions are happening about the future of our provincial forest sector.

Canada’s biggest toilet paper manufacturer aims to make some of its tissue from bamboo as an environmentally sustainable option for consumers.

The closure of the Paper Excellence pulp mill in Mackenzie comes as a disappointing, but not entirely unexpected, blow to the forestry dependent community.

KAMLOOPS — One of 24 projects who received funding from the B.C. government’s Supply Chain Resiliency Grant program is centred in Kamloops.

FORT MILL, S.C. – Apr. 13, 2021 – Domtar Corporation (NYSE: UFS) (TSX: UFS) will release its first quarter 2021 financial results before markets open on Thursday, May 6^th, 2021.

[Richmond, BC] – Paper Excellence announced today the permanent closure of the Mackenzie Pulp Mill located in Mackenzie, BC. Production at the mill was originally curtailed in June 2020 due to market impacts caused by COVID-19 and lack of local economic fibre.

The B.C. government’s plan to break up large forest harvest licences and share the resource with secondary manufacturers and Indigenous communities hasn’t worked, so Crown timber rights will be redistributed by the government, Premier John Horgan has warned industry executives.

At this time of the year, rivers and ponds in western Newfoundland are usually awash with the spring runoff, meaning high water levels and steady power generation for the Deer Lake hydroelectric station.

A new study of B.C.’s forest industry says the sector plays a big role throughout the province, and is larger than most people think.

Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc., a global leader in high purity cellulose pulp, and GreenFirst Forest Products Inc., a Canadian lumber company, announced today that the parties have entered into a binding asset purchase agreement  pursuant to which RYAM has agreed to sell all of its lumber and newsprint facilities and related assets located in Ontario and Québec.

New pulping equipment will produce recycled packaging papers from waste material previously sent to China, helping to solve a major environmental challenge while supporting local jobs

Saint John, New Brunswick – J.D. Irving, Limited employees in New Brunswick have been invited to participate in COVID-19 vaccination clinics hosted by Hartland-based Pharmacy for Life, as part of the Government of New Brunswick’s plan to swiftly expand the distribution of vaccines across the province.

KINGSEY FALLS, QC, April 9, 2021 - Responding to the government's call to businesses, Cascades is announcing that it will set up a COVID-19 vaccination hub in Kingsey Falls this coming May.

Forest products are a heritage industry in Maine. Since becoming home to our nation’s very first sawmill in 1623, our woodlands have been an integral part of our identity.

A new economic study released today by the BC Council of Forest industries (COFI) shows that B.C.’s forest industry continues to generate significant economic activity in every region of the province.

The tree planting season will start this year post-Spring and the tree planters in Burns Lake are planning to continue following the COVID precautions they took last year.