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Article: Sudbury to remain a port in the storm: Laurentian professor predicts recession to lift within a year.(SUDBURY)
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- Northern Ontario Business
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- January 1, 2009
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One of the best tools Sudbury businesses can use to ride out the economic downturn is simple optimism, according to Debbi Nicholson, president and CEO of the Sudbury Chamber of Commerce.
"If we all stay positive and do what we can, the depths will get shallower and shallower," she said.
Nicholson's perspective mirrors one of the central points made by Laurentian University economics professor David Robinson, who gave his predictions for the city's financial future at a packed Sudbury Chamber of Commerce luncheon Dec. 4.
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Hosted in Bryston's On the Park in Copper Cliff, the event both literally and figuratively sat ...