I wish I shared your optimismThose mill closures are a lot worse then 800 jobs - there were hundreds of contractors etc who aren't directly on the payroll, but got 90% of their work from the mills.

Also those mills bought $millions of wood every year, a lot from local woodlot owners.

Credentials are still very important in bureaucracies but they have no standing on their own in the creative world and in the world of reputation

Yeah, but the bureaucracies have all the freaking money!

There's room for a few people to make a decent living out here in the woods, but all the Beemers and Benzes are right in downtown Toronto.

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Peter Burtt
peter@burtt.org