NORTHERN ECONOMIST 2.0

On Friday afternoon, I did a brief presentation at the Impact of Development Conference/Workshop held at the historic Trinity United Church...

There is going to be a conference on economic development ithis week.  The Impact of Development workshop will be held this Thursday and Fri...

Well, traveling in winter is never much fun and this weekend I was in Montreal for the Fraser Institute Student Seminar Series and ...

Winter finally arrived here in Thunder Bay this week with a plethora of  snow, cold and ice.  I left for a short trip to Montreal on Monday ...

One of the hurdles to the economic development of the chromite deposits in northern Ontario's Ring of Fire (along with commodity prices ...

It has been a slow start to spring across northern Ontario but temperatures are finally starting to warm up.  Environment Canada says warmer...

Well it has been a few weeks since I did an economic news round-up.  To start off, Happy Mother's Day to all the moms in northern Ontari...

Here are some of the items that caught my interest this week in terms of some economic significance for northern Ontario as well as...

There was an exchange in Ontario’s Legislature yesterday between MPP Norm Miller and Minister of Northern Development & Mines B...

Last Saturday’s Globe and Mail (February 18, B6) ran an article titled “Rebuilding Ontario: A Plan for the Way Forward” which laid ...