Chris's post yesterday pointed to a real problem, not just for us here in Windsor, but for pretty much everyone.  Plans more often than not, don't work.  Perhaps, more correctly they don't usually work the way we thought they would. Like this plan that has cost us a vibrant ...

Why plan? Organizations and individuals plan for a host of reasons. One of the first things you do when you spread your wings and leave your parents home is learn some aspect of financial and career planning. You need a "roadmap" to help you ...

As the news director for Scaledown, I collect far more articles than I post in my weekly News blog, there is just not enough space! Some of the articles are just to long to post, knowing that people lose interest if they are just browsing for info. So, I came ...

This just in from the Phog Lounge press release; On Saturday, July 11th, Phog Lounge will publicly celebrate the CBC Radio 3 Best Live Music Venue in Canada by holding a grand street party known as Phog Phest. Well over a thousand people are ...

As many of you know, ScaleDown has been around for a few years. I don't know how many of you have actually gone through our archives, but ...

There’s not many people that know this, but we are in the thick of a strike by city workers.  Their plan was a simple one : let the city get so ugly, so garbage and rat infested, with Kilimanjaros and Denalis of yesterdays Lean Cuisines and Jos Louis wrappers, that ...

I was challenged by Mark Boscariol of Scaledown in another blog to write what I would do with $50 million infrastructure dollars, if not roads and sewers, then what? I replied in ...

Where in the world have all the tourists gone? Since 2001, the number of day trips that Americans have taken to Canada has decreased by almost 70 per cent Urban upgrades with seniors in mind Seniors do better, it is said, when they can stay in their ...