Michael Atkins

Politics can be unforgiving. Politicians come and go. The sepia state does not.

Canadians are suffering from cognitive dissonance. So is our prime minister.

In the course of the last 17 years, he has come as close as any other major Northern Ontario institutional leader to delivering on promises made and promises kept.

A small business in Sudbury is impacted by all sorts of things you wouldn't have imagined 40 years ago.

Always have a plan B. Nothing is for sure today.

Of course politics has always been a tough game, but there is a patina of distrust and hostility that is new and disquieting.

We may be well past being able to salvage the environment and the speed of technology

Sudbury is now a player in the digital innovator economy.

We do this in defiance of self-preservation.

Although America will always loom large in our world, let's learn how to grow our own food.