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'We’ll become a branch office — just like Canada'

If you run a business publication in northern Ontario, you are never far from the politics of resources.

It’s summer and the living is ... technology

Sometimes I frighten my wife. “All I need is a stereo, sufficient cash flow for a steady stream of Kraft Dinner, a bike and a one-room apartment the size of our garage, reasonably close to a good library.

16 tons and what do you get?

Long strikes get forgotten everywhere except where they happen. Sometimes they get forgotten before they are over. The United Steelworker/Vale Inco fight to the finish this year had many twists and turns, some of them quite surprising.

Religion — and the allure and power of money

Some of you might remember Eleanor Clitheroe. Her 15 minutes of fame came in the early years of this century.

Is it back to the future with Heritage II?

Somewhere out there, just ahead of the blackflies, is a small group of people across northern Ontario knocking on doors looking to sign up enough people to bring the Northern Ontario Heritage Party (NOHP) back to life.

Is it back to the future with Heritage II?

Somewhere out there, just ahead of the blackflies, is a small group of people across northern Ontario knocking on doors looking to sign up enough people to bring the Northern Ontario Heritage Party (NOHP) back to life.

The other side of the podium

I remember chairing a meeting of an economic self-help group in Sudbury 30 years ago called Sudbury 2001. We were at the Cambrian College boardroom and a group of union members and politicians burst into the room to bust up the meeting.

What if northern Ontario had a premier?

The other day a guy named Evan Bayh, a 54-year-old Indiana Democratic Senator in the United States, quit politics.

Vale Inco strike — the sounds of silence

Someone said the other day the strike at Vale Inco might go for another two years. Sounds ridiculous.

Begin with the end in mind

There is a reason I’m able to spend some of my time pontificating on the absurdity of Canadian and provincial politics in these pages while overseeing four or five businesses. I don’t do much of the work.