(Blog) Governance News Round Up – March 2016
Check out links to news stories related to rural governance from March 2016. If you have any reflections from one of the stories, or you have a story from your region to share, please leave a comment below!
The Geography of Local Governance on Prince Edward Island: A Public Symposium
- Event summary and video
- A fear of losing connection to place (PEI, Canada)
Changes to Municipal Boundaries and Representation
- Council to debate governance and ward realignment motion (Alberta, Canada)
- Windsor and West Hants amalgamation being forced by citizens group (Nova Scotia, Canada)
India’s Budget
- A Budget focusing on minimum govt and maximum governance
- Budget a wasted opportunity … do structural reform of factor and product markets … I stand by Ishrat affidavit
Urban-Rural Governance
- Council looks for ways to heal urban-rural rift (Nova Scotia, Canada)
- Rural residents ‘furious’ over stormwater ‘rain tax’ (Ontario, Canada)
Environment and Energy
- Rural Ontario gets cold shoulder on cap and trade (Ontario, Canada)
- Consultation key to rural energy projects (Ontario, Canada)
- Rural electric co-ops, traditionally bastions of coal, are getting into solar (Wisconsin, USA)
- ‘Bad governance behind massive deforestation’ (Pakistan)
Stay tuned for our next post – Governance Team Member Profile: Dr. Andrea Olive.
Until next time,
Meggie
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