Josh McNally · Sault Ste. Marie
Tourism and creative work for a broader economy. Affordable homes, accessible care, and individualized support for a better everyday life.
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Local opportunity
Make tourism and creative work central to a broader economy, alongside industry, trades, and local business.
Connect skills and ideas with support and suitable space, including food-truck parks with utility tie-ins and fair contributions alongside restaurants.
Find purchasing gaps that competitive local suppliers can fill, while helping businesses sell beyond the city.
Explore a destination music festival, fair arts support, busking, and connected food and heritage experiences. Help visitors stay longer and creators earn here.
Make, move and trade. Support a modern public-access port that connects marine, rail, road and industrial land—with transparent, bounded municipal risk.
Read the Port strategy Read the destination-led growth planCommunity excellence
Create a visible path from learning and practice to useful feedback and a real next step.
Business and inventor fairs, science challenges, performances, and public opportunities should have open entry, published criteria, and fair selection.
Culture and belonging
More evenings with something to do. More places to gather. More opportunities to make something together.
Support local work and visiting talent, with designated places for regular and scheduled busking that helps artists earn income.
Use streets, parks, rooms, and underused places thoughtfully and safely.
Look after the places and stories that make the Sault distinctive—and help people experience them.
Culture is part of community life and part of a more varied local economy.Read the full chapter
Open government
Residents should be able to raise an idea, follow it, and understand the answer.
A clear place for a question, proposal, or concern.
Know who is responsible and what the next step is.
Publish the reasoning, trade-offs, decision, and result.
A community ideas board can widen participation—but public input, formal decisions, practical help, and campaign communication must remain clearly separate.
Read the full chapterDignity and safety
Take social disorder and despair seriously: understand each person's needs, make shared spaces safer, and judge the response by what actually improves.
Timely treatment, primary care, and support shaped around the person. Work with existing organizations to fill gaps; forced treatment is not a general solution to homelessness.
Support rental supply and housing partnerships. Pursue a workable vacant-home tax and advocate for provincial income supports that better reflect basic needs.
Address harmful behaviour and unmet needs. Protect shared spaces without treating displacement as a solution.
Measure lasting housing, health, stability, and gaps in care. Adapt services and resources when the evidence changes.
Learning for life
Start useful learning in spaces we already have while studying a permanent all-ages centre separately.
Begin the learning first. Any building decision needs separate evidence on demand, condition, access, renovation, annual costs, and operation.
Read the full chapterPrinciples · Fairness and public money
Widen practical choices. Remove unnecessary barriers. Keep public opportunities open and understandable.
Connections to a candidate, donor, adviser, business, or official should create no entitlement to public work.
Show startup and annual costs, staff time, maintenance, funding sources, and effects on other priorities.
Distinguish confirmed money from hoped-for money—and real efficiency from a cut in service.
Pause large-scale data-centre applications: support a moratorium while water demand, environmental impacts, lasting jobs, and public liabilities are examined with affected First Nations.
From ideas to work
Begin with manageable projects, report honestly, and keep participation going after the announcement.
If something works, build on it. If it needs changing, change it. If it does not justify continuing, explain why.Share a question or idea
Bigger ideas · Mosaic
Mosaic asks how downtown, waterfront, buildings, rail, and surrounding landscapes could work together to diversify the economy and give people more reasons to build, visit, and stay.
Explore the possibilities—not promises. Test demand, cost, ownership, partners, approvals, public value, and long-term operation one idea at a time.
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