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The 2018 Arctic Science Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science will be held October 9th in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The meeting is being held in tandem with the Canadian Rural...
The Journal of Rural and Community Development (JRCD) released a special issue, with 14 articles on diverse issues of ‘new development paths for communities in the sparsely populated north’. Each drawing on different disciplines...
RPLC Co-Lead Appointed as Member of the Order of Canada Dr. Barbara Neis, one of Memorial’s most distinguished social scientists, was named a member of the Order of Canada “for her innovative research on...
The eighth Networks Leadership Symposium will be held March 19-20, 2018 at the Westin Bayshore Hotel, Vancouver, BC. This symposium will focus on networks as balancing acts: managing inherent tensions. NLS 2018 will embrace...
ARTICLE Trapped in the Big City? RE-Thinking Regionalization of Immigration AUTHOR Marc Yvan Valade, PhD Candidate Policy Studies, Yeates School of Graduate Studies, Ryerson University ABSTRACT In the 1990s Canada adopted a policy of...
The RPLC Research & Exchanges Team is issuing a call for applications for 2017/2018 Rural Policy Research Grants. Rural Policy Grants are RPLC supported research projects on rural policy. Such projects should ideally be carried...
RPLC member, Professor Sally Shortall, Newcastle University’s Duke of Northumberland Chair of Rural Economy, contends that we can only make farms safer by understanding the mind-set of the people who live and work there. So...
Now in the fourth year, the Rural Policy Learning Commons (RPLC) is launching seven (7) new networks focusing on issues and policies affecting rural communities. Each network of students and faculty, along with policy...
The RPLC is continuing to increase its focus on Policy, a key aspect of the RPLC deliverables. The RPLC seeks to support its members and partners to discuss, share and analyze policy. The challenge is...
PhD candidate Sarah Minnes (Memorial University) has recently completed a RPLC supported brief exploring Ontario’s Clean Water Act and its implications for rural serviced municipalities. The main recommendations from this research are: Realistic fiscal...