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A Better Bay: Can North Bay be a Happy City?

Can North Bay be a Happy City?

This article is the first in a new Gateway series called A Better Bay. As humans, we overestimate what we can accomplish in a short period of time, but we underestimate what we can accomplish over long periods of time. If we take a long run view of our city, we can ensure we live in a city designed intelligently, with its residents in mind.

A Better Bay is an attempt to look at the future of our city, and thoughtfully deliberate as a community about our best path forward.

Lake Nipissing’s Black Gold (Part 2)

… And she wasn’t the only European monarch that tried the King of Caviar’s product…

Aboard the COVID-19 Brandwagon

He said that not taking care of the employees was straight up bad business. Why?

Because the only thing anyones talking right now is COVID-19, and that means the only public relations any company has right now is how they handle it.

Lake Nipissing’s Black Gold (Part 1)

What does Caviar, one of the worlds finest culinary delicacies, have to do with North Bay and the surrounding communities?
Well that takes us back in history, to the story a founding father of Sturgeon Falls, the caviar king, and Lake Nipissing’s “Black Gold”.

But there’s a lot more to this story than a local caviar producer.

Can the aftermath of Spanish Flu help us know what comes next?

But here’s the thing about safety nets:

They work a lot better if they’re fixed before the fall.

The Democratization of Communication

Up until the era of the internet, this ability to communicate to masses of people was largely limited to those with some sort of power, economic or political. The technology assisted communication endeavours of everyday people was limited to the telephone, and one-to-one communication.

When you’ve got Music

In the face of the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important that we don’t come together physically.
So does that mean music ceases to bring us together?
Absolutely not.

Manners in the time of Corona

So, what do manners look like in a time of COVID-19?

Is it appropriate to tell someone: “dude you just touched your face like 16 times.” ?

Battalion, it’s time to Rebrand

When we learned that the Brampton Battalion would be relocating for the 2013-14 season, and that North Bay would finally be getting another OHL franchise my first thought was basically that it was good for the community, and hey, it would probably provide me with some entertainment. Win-Win.

My second thought was:
“I really hope they change their brand”

A Criminal Coincidence (1935)

In 1935, a 19 year old, standing 6’2, 240 lbs. was brought into the North Bay jail by a constable and his brother. In no time, the man was fighting with officers with the fury of a “caged lion”.