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Click Here to apply. The OpportunityThe Harris Centre Intern is a one-year placement for recent graduates from a Masters or Doctoral program (last two years) with skills and interest in public policy, regional and...
Date: Wednesday May 8th, 2019 @ 11:00am CST ABSTRACT The impacts of climate change are more evident everywhere. Rural people who depend on climate-sensitive resources (e.g. water supplies, farming land) are among the more...
Canadians living in rural and northern communities have unique needs. Access to better and more modern infrastructure, affordable housing, and faster, more reliable Internet Service can make a big difference in the quality of...
Canadian regional development today involves multiple actors operating within nested scales from local to national and even international levels. Recent approaches to making sense of this complexity have drawn on concepts such as multi-level...
In northern Manitoba, 73% of the population self-identifies as Indigenous and 52% of the population lives on a First Nation. And yet, little is known about how and how much Indigenous people are contributing...
OurDigitalWorld, an Ontario-based nonprofit that works with libraries, archives, historical societies, museums, and community groups to steward and share their heritage materials, released a report in January 2019 about special collections and digitization in...
Karen Foster | Karen.Foster@Dal.Ca Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Rural Futures for Atlantic Canada, Dalhousie University In January 2019, the Rural Futures Research Centre (RFRC) at Dalhousie launched its first telephone survey of Atlantic Canadians....