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Reprieve (Steel Town reprise)

from Watershed by Grey Earth

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After a series of loans, defaults, and reorganizations in the early 1900s, the province stepped in and bailed out Clergue’s many failed ventures.

The province did so again in the late 1900s after a pair of bankruptcies and layoffs at Algoma Steel.

When St. Mary’s Paper closed, it was briefly reopened and run by its employees.

OLG split up its offices and moved corporate headquarters from Toronto in a make-work program to help the struggling Northern Ontario city. The building was named after local astronaut Roberta Bondar. City councillors now criticize the division of the offices in their pleas to move the rest of OLG to the Sault.

Then came the call centres... When the industrial pillars were shedding high paying union jobs, the business process outsourcing industry came in to save local employment rates with low paying unprotected jobs. …and now the call centres are gone.

The plant, and therefore the Sault, continue to struggle. It remains the largest employer, and everyone is tied to its well-being.

In dire need of economic diversification, there is still hope.

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from Watershed, released September 4, 2020

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