Northern Economist: A Brief History

In the fall of 2010, I decided to start an economic blog dealing with the economies of Thunder Bay and northern Ontario as well as economic issues in general from a northern Ontario perspective.  The blog was a lot of work but it attracted a fair amount of interest given that it tackled many northern Ontario economic issues in an evidence based manner.  The blog was initially hosted on Shaw Webspace but it eventually ran out of space on the server - Shaw apparently allocated a rather tiny amount of space - and it migrated in February of 2012 to Blogspot as Northern Economist 2.0 (hence the reference to this first site as Northern Economist 1.0).   Shaw recently announced that they were ending their webspace service as of March 6, 2017 so I decided to preserve as much as possible of the original set of posts on this site as an archive.  The look and feel of the original posts as well as many of the links are gone but the main content remains.  Enjoy the posts!  I am still blogging and post on Worthwhile Canadian Initiative and The Fraser Institute Blog.  As well, you can still catch occasional posts on northern Ontario related material on Northern Economist 2.0. Cheers. Livio Di Matteo.