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Posted by Sudbury Northern Life It has to be noted, although it will be soon forgotten, that the business class, in the United States in particular, has squandered its reputation to be trusted and influential.

I am 60 years old. I was 15 years old when they shot John F. Kennedy on November 22nd, 1963, exactly 45 years ago today as I write. I was 20 on April 14th 1968 when they shot Martin Luther King in Memphis, Tennessee.

Greater Sudbury Northern Life I suppose the good news is we aren’t in the property development business in Iceland. The collapse of financial markets around the world has been astonishing, although not surprising.

I was sitting down in the living room the other day trying to figure out how to explain the nature of politics to my 10-year-old daughter, Jackie. Not that she had asked of course, but it seemed sensible to be prepared should the moment arise.

I’ve been hiding from politics all summer as any sane person would. This is actually very easy to do. Watch no television. Turn off the RSS feeds, listen only to sports radio, and buy books. The difficulty is coming back. I don’t want to come back.

Buzz Hargrove, the feisty (I’m being kind) president of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union, recently said they would go on strike against General Motors (GM) if the auto maker did not promise new car products for Windsor, Oshawa, and St.

If you have even a passing interest in the politics of northern Ontario, and Sudbury in particular, you will take note of last week’s refusal by FedNor to support the Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation (CEMI) at Laurentian University and weep

A month or so ago, a special task force for the Greater City of Sudbury called the Advisory Panel on Municipal Mining Revenues presented their recommendations to the city.

I was ten when I started developing my first pro forma apology. One of the flashpoints around my house was keeping my mother informed about where I was. My father had died when I was young and so my mother and I were on our own.

I don’t know if you’ve noticed but capitalism in a crashing market is not as much fun as capitalism on the way up. It can be hard on manners, mood and general decorum as you watch those Pina Colada’s melt away with each new bar graph.