We caught up with Jelena from Rebel Salad last week. Rebel joined the Chamber earlier this year and we’ve been looking forward to the chance to talk with them about their build-your-own salad operation on the corner of Bay and Secord. Please join us in welcoming Rebel Salad to the Chamber!

Olives and Bananas joined the Chamber in January 2020. They’re more than a yarn shop, aiming to supply a wider range of fibre arts supplies from wool yarn to wool roving, felting tools, knitting, crochet, spinning, weaving, macrame, cross stitch and embroidery. Natural fibres are at the heart of the shop, for both ethical and environmental reasons; slow fashion is an important key to a sustainable future.

With Bell Let’s Talk Day approaching, we thought it was a great opportunity to call on Dr. Jennifer Sullivan to learn about the social stigma that may prevent people from reaching for help when struggling with their mental health.

In this Member Minute, we asked Jim from Eat Local Pizza what he loves about being in business. We learned that Jim is hooked on connections with our community, opportunities to empower people, and the hope of making things better from the inside out….

In this Member Minute, meet Dave Grady of TBXI, Northern Ontario’s exclusive XEROX sales agent providing leading-edge office products and technology services.

In our latest Chamber Member Minute, meet Amber Kivisto from BioNorth Solutions, Canada’s only manufacturer of no-dig microbial spill kits and the largest microbiology lab in Northwestern Ontario.

ITEC 2000 joined us in March of this year. Their heavy-equipment sales and service operation is out on Gardner Road in Rosslyn and employs about 35 people full-time. You may have met some of the team at one of our events, especially Jen – she comes out to lots of things – and now you can get the low-down on their business in their Member Profile.

Join us for a Chamber Member Minute with Umbrella Medical Clinic as they announce some exciting news!

Giant steps for our community can start with small ones, and we often don‘t see until we look backwards just how far we’ve come. That’s the lesson we took from our meeting with Sue Hamel, owner of Seek Adventure and Tours. Her first small steps with local film-maker Michelle Derosier over a year ago eventually led to the creation of the Wake the Giant safe-spaces initiative…

Copperfin is Northwestern Ontario’s largest locally owned credit union…