NORTHERN ECONOMIST 2.0

 As the federal government ramps up the billions to address the housing crisis in Canada including $6 billion to construct housing infrastru...

  The Mayor’s State of the City Address last evening highlighted  housing construction in Thunder Bay particularly toutin...

  As the 2024 municipal budget season wraps up, it is worth looking at where Thunder Bay has been going over the last deca...

  Public sector size and its impact on the economy is a long-standing research question in public finance.   In the case o...

  It is municipal budget season in  Ontario and Canada and this year’s proposed budget increases appear to be quite large....

  It appears that Thunder Bay City Council has finally decided to get serious about looking at its size and composition wi...

  Happy New Year to all!   One must admit that 2023 has been a bit of a ride regionally, nationally, and internationally. ...

  As 2023 winds down and 2024 arrives, a retrospective combined with a look ahead on the economy is a timely exercise.   T...

  As 2022 begins to wind up, it is worth taking a look at how Thunder Bay’s economy is doing using less traditional indica...

  Winter is approaching and it continues that compared to Thunder Bay, some southern Ontario municipalities are way ahead ...

  Thunder Bay City Council this week did not support Mayor Ken Boshcoff’s desire to acquire “strong mayor powers” in a qu...