The province is pumping $7-million into the silviculture sector that is expected to keep up to 300 forestry workers employed when Northern Pulp closes at the end of the month.

SASKATOON -- It will have to get a lot colder to kill the mountain pine beetle, according to Rory McIntosh, an entomologist and insects and disease expert with the forestry branch of the Ministry of Environment.

With the new year already underway, Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod is poised to keep fighting for workers impacted by the province’s recent string of sawmill closures in a struggling forestry sector.

An iconic sawmill in Kelowna is no more.

KITWANGA — The Canadian National Railway Co. says a freight train carrying wood pellets derailed in northwest B.C. early Tuesday.

SPOKANE, Wash. - Jan. 8, 2020 - Clearwater Paper Corporation (NYSE: CLW) announces the ratification of its labor contracts with the United Steelworkers and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers at its Lewiston, Idaho facility.

Evanston, Ill., January 8, 2020 – Industrial Opportunity Partners (“IOP”), an operations-focused private equity firm based in Evanston, Ill., today announced that it has acquired Midwest Recycled and Coated Containerboard Mill, LLC (“Midwest Paper” or the “Company”). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The City of Quesnel has been awarded a Community Support Grant from the province.

Start Your New Year on Paper

WASHINGTON – American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) President and CEO Heidi Brock thanked the United States House of Representatives for passing the U.S. – Mexico – Canada (USMCA) trade agreement and issued the following statement:

Company's Maine mill receives industry certification for food safety, ensuring products meet industry standards

HARTSVILLE, S.C., Jan. 02, 2020 -- Sonoco (NYSE: SON), one of the most sustainable, diversified global packaging companies, today announced it has completed the acquisition of Thermoform Engineered Quality, LLC, and Plastique Holdings, LTD, (together TEQ), a global manufacturer of thermoformed packaging serving healthcare, medical device and consumer markets, from ESCO Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ESE) for $187 million in cash.

Just weeks before the mill is scheduled to shut down, officials with Northern Pulp have informed the Nova Scotia government they plan to continue with the environmental assessment process for a proposed new effluent treatment facility.

Kruger Products L.P. (“Kruger Products”) today announced a multi-year partnership with the Toronto Maple Leafs naming Kruger Products as the Toronto Maple Leafs official tissue partner. As part of the partnership, Kruger Products launched the Toronto Maple Leafs designed boxes, which are available in select stores in the Greater Toronto Area.

Canada’s forests and our careful management of this precious and renewable resource are a beacon for the rest of the world.

A survey is now underway to collect thoughts and insights from the grassroots of B.C.’s industrial sectors — the workers, the employers, and the users — and of anyone who lives in a community connected to natural resource industries.

Kenora Forest Products is up for sale, after its parent company filed for bankruptcy in early December.

Re-Proposes Declassification of Board of Directors and Elimination of Supermajority Voting Provisions

Konecranes has today completed the acquisition of Jebsen & Jessen’s 50% stake in MHE-Demag, as announced on December 5, 2019. The combined operations of Konecranes and MHE-Demag start on January 2, 2020.

Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil has released the names of the members of a team created to help forestry workers as the Northern Pulp mill prepares to shut down at the end of January.

Over the next three years, J.D. Irving, Limited (JDI) is forecasting over 6,800 full time hires as well as 2700+ student hires across the company's diverse operations in Canada and the U.S.