C-K Mayor Randy Hope addressing Chamber of Commerce May 28 2015 (Photo by Simon Crouch)C-K Mayor Randy Hope addressing Chamber of Commerce May 28 2015 (Photo by Simon Crouch)
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Mayor Boasts Hundreds Of Jobs

Mayor Randy Hope is standing by his claim the economy is picking up and more investment could be coming.

Hope says investments by existing businesses added more than 400 new jobs in the past year with another 125 created by the small business community.

"They're not always the jobs people want, sometimes we are still waiting for that big manufacturer to land," he says. "We've got investors coming in June, we have the interest of those investing, they are now coming here."

He says however that attracting overseas investment is a lot more complicated and takes longer than dealing with companies based in Canada and the United States.

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Scoreboard, June 26

The Toronto Blue Jays dropped their third in a row Thursday, 6-5 to the visiting Texas Rangers, and the Detroit Tigers suffered a 2-1 loss to Houston.