Author Archives: SuperUser

With Canada suffering less than most industrial nations from the global economic malaise we tend to think that we are ahead in the economic ‘game.’ In fact, for more than a decade we have lagged behind in productivity – for instance, the production of goods and services per worker – than most industrial nations. Each [...]

With the facilitator about to be appointed by the Ministry of Education to investigate the process by which the decision to close PCVS was taken, there needs to be some informed discussion of the economic realities of our time and the significance of the decision in terms of Peterborough’s potential for future economic growth. To [...]

Since the arrival of GE in Peterborough in 1892 the community has been known for its industrial successes. In a 2009 study of 17 similar communities in Canada and the US by Richard Florida of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto found Peterborough to be technologically stronger than most comparable communities, and [...]

It is through venues where people gather together for social purposes rather than just employment that the creative class interacts. It is in places like downtown Peterborough, and the diversity of activities there that new ideas will come from interactions—planned and fortuitous. Casual observations of the recent buzz downtown shows many young people working and [...]