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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...
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....
Project: Rural 2.0: Investigating Place-Based Rural Innovation Systems and Their Implications for Public Policy and Community Development Practice Innovation has become a central public policy concern, evidenced by the proliferation of innovation agendas‚ across...
We’re back for a second successful year! Join us for two days of learning and networking with other agri-curious and ag families just like you! Day one will be full on educational sessions, a...
The 2019 North Atlantic Forum and the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation Conference will be held at St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada, October 1-4,2019. The conference is aimed to bring together practitioners, policy makers, community...
Newcomers in Rural Canada: Lived Experiences in Education and Integration Michelle Lam | lamm345@myumanitoba.ca PhD in Education, University of Manitoba Rural areas are becoming more diverse as a result of private sponsorship, economically-driven immigration policy,...
This report supplements a previous report, “Ethnocultural Community Organizations in Winnipeg: A Legacy Document”, that was written in 2018. Collectively, the two documents explore the role of ethnocultural community groups and organizations in providing...