[URBAN NOTE] On how The Pas, Manitoba, is losing its paper mill

[rfmcdonald]

The National Post carries this brief Canadian Press article. I hope The Pas has something to fall back on.

A last-ditch offer to save hundreds of jobs in The Pas has failed, at least for now.

Earlier this week, Mayor Jim Scott offered to exempt Tolko Industries from business, property and education taxes for three years if the company would delay the planned closure of the town’s paper mill.

That would have saved the company roughly $2.5 million.

But Scott spoke to company officials on Thursday morning and said they don’t seem willing to budge on their decision to close the paper mill on Dec. 2.

Scott said the company did ask if they could forward the offer on to potential buyers for the mill.