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Growing up in the family clothing shop on Thunder Bay’s South Side has left Andrew Moro with a strong sense of being part of something bigger than himself.  Maybe it’s because he works in a business where he talks with real people every day – the people who work and...

Know someone who works in contracting?  According to the TBay Two-Degree rule, you probably do.  During a visit with Marlene and Richard Koskiniemi at The Kitchen Nook (also The Finnish Book Store) we learned that shopping TBay businesses like theirs puts your dollars...

Over the past four months we’ve been exploring the invisible economic kickbacks attached to money spent in Thunder Bay.  We’ve talked about the jobs that exist because of local businesses, the taxes they pay to support the quality of life we enjoy here, and the way...

Last month we learned how the TBay Two Degree Rule works in the automotive sector.  This month we looked at another of the Money-Back Guarantees attached to every TBay purchase:  Thunder Bay’s arts scene. Leaving aside opinions on music or art, let’s just talk jobs. ...

This month’s research expedition led the #ChooseTBayFirst team into the showrooms, garages and front offices of Thunder Bay’s automotive sector, where we were reminded of the TBay Two Degree Rule: In Thunder Bay there are only two degrees of separation between people,...

Price tags are funny things. They’re just a few digits with a decimal and a dollar sign, and yet they’re responsible for summing up the entire lifetime value of a product. On the surface, price tags can be handy tools for making buying decisions: this price tag is...