The Northwestern Ontario Innovation Centre has partnered with the Thunder Bay Community Economic Development Commission (CEDC), the Centre for Research and Innovation in the Bio-Economy (CRIBE), Lakehead University and Confederation College to launch the Boreal Springboard, an innovative initiative aimed at strengthening and diversifying the forestry sector in Northwestern Ontario.

Graham Bracken, project co-ordinator at the Northwestern Ontario Innovation Centre, said the launch comes at a critical time for forestry in the region as recent U.S. tariff increases pose serious challenges for Northwestern Ontario’s highly integrated forest sector.

“The trade pressures were really the impetus to focus people’s minds,” Bracken said. “The sector is really integrated, and any threat to protecti

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