A correspondent writes from Guelph: "I heard one of the anti-Dion ads (slagging the concept of carbon taxes if I recall) on Magic 106 this morning on my drive from Guelph to Kitchener..."

The tiny town of Red Rock, Ontario, will soon shutter its only municipal hockey arena, a direct result of the loss of its paper mill and major employer two years ago ...But none of those closures, or dozens like them in small rural towns across the country, ever generated the headlines or Parliamentary outrage that the threat of the shutdown of a General Motors plant in Oshawa, Ont. And yet, in relative terms, the manufacturing crisis in Canada's out-of-the-way corners, far away from television cameras, may be more alarming...