As oil prices slump and take the Canadian dollar along for the ride the question of how budget projections that predicted a modest surplus can be maintained is the flavour of the month in Ottawa. Despite negative indicators the government is holding firm to its projections, but has also moved the [Read more]
People familiar with last year’s battle to maintain ferry service between Manitoulin Island and Tobermory will find similarities with the plight of businesses, communities, and property owners set to lose passenger rail service from the Algoma Central Railway (ACR). On Manitoulin, the [Read more]
Gas prices went through the roof in the last ten days. In the north we need no lessons about the fickle nature of gas pricing and the havoc it plays on household budgets. This might be a little easier to take if we were burning Canadian fuel that had been domestically refined as part of [Read more]
You don’t have to think back that far to remember Labour Days when the attitude towards the hard working people who make up the bulk of our economic well being was more positive. Now we have a prolonged international recession and a government that is decidedly anti-union as the new normal. [Read more]
