
Thunder Bay – The Thunder Bay Hillbillies
Next… we’s gonna get a seement pond. Yeeehaa! Spending priorities. Maybe buying a more affordable vehicle and putting some money into the house? Just a thought.

Thunder Bay – The Strange Case Of…
One moment Dr. Commisso is taking City Council to the woodshed for not cutting programs such as the Centennial Botanical Conservatory and the Municipal Golf Course, a mere drop in the municipal budget. The next moment Mr. Tim is telling the same City Council to give RegenMed money, and hire consultants left right and centre […]

Thunder Bay – Value for Money
Let me demonstrate the mind set that is rampant in the City of Thunder Bay Administration. I believe it to be a value for money issue. The estimated site prep costs for the proposed Thunder Bay Event Centre are just under $36 million…likely to be more The entire cost to construct the Essar Centre in […]

Thunder Bay – Plan B or C or D or…..
Hobbs did say if federal and/or provincial dollars aren’t forthcoming, he wouldn’t be comfortable moving ahead without asking the public’s permission to take out a loan. “If we want a debenture, if we want to have the taxpayers pay for it that should go to a plebiscite. I said that when I was campaigning. It […]

Thunder Bay – Parking? We don’t need no stinkin’ parking.
The proposed $100 million event centre is supposedly going to bring prosperity to the north core businesses. The Waterfront BIA is completely in favour of this project. Parking issues? No problem. Lots of parking spaces available around the downtown. People can park and enjoy a leisurely stroll passed the business on their way to the […]

Thunder Bay – The Five Parking Spaces
The City of Thunder Bay is prepared to spend in the neighbourhood of $200 million or more on the downtown north core. The result of this spending frenzy is a couple of hundred minimum wage jobs. Some part-time, some full-time. Spending close to a million dollars of taxpayers money to create a job that pays […]

Thunder Bay – Event Centre Job Fair
Maybe the minimum wage will more by time they build the Palace of Excesses.