The news that Abitibi Bowater’s Mackenzie Saw Mill has been sold to Conifex is good news. The announcement will have the effect of stopping the further bloodletting that has been taking place in that community over the past three years.

Last week, Mr Justice Glen Parrett, told his courtroom as he sifted through the foreclosures that this is one of the worst economic times that he has seen since he has lived in Prince George. A large number of those foreclosures were from Mackenzie and people who had settled... Read full story...