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For five days, rural community leaders, policy makers, businesses, and researchers descended to St John’s to explored topics about the future of rural, island, and northern places. The conference brought together over 150 participants,...
Whose versions of sustainability count in the urban century? How does spatial disadvantage intersect with injustices based on gender, ethnic, linguistic, religious and other dimensions of social difference? What opportunities do flows of people,...
The new researchers’ forum held at the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation – North Atlantic Forum 2019: Sustainable Communities conference, included RPLC/CRRF members, emerging scholars and graduate students. The forum was a round table discussion...
The Rural Policy Learning Commons and the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation are teaming up again to deliver the New Researcher’s Forum at this year’s Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation – North Atlantic Forum 2019: Sustainable Communities conference...
In 2013, the CRRF/FCRR board of directors created a Lifetime Membership policy to recognize persons who have demonstrated an outstanding career of contributions to the betterment of rural Canada. The CRRF/FCRR board of directors...
NEETs are not a new invasive biting insect but a classification used to better understand and describe the employment status of young Canadians. Those classified as “NEET” are those not in employment, education or...
Date: October 1-4, 2019 Memorial University and the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation (CRRF) and its North Atlantic partners are planning for the 2019 North Atlantic Forum and CRRF Conference in St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador,...
By: Marc-Antoine Larrivée On the occasion of the 16th International Comparative Rural Policy Studies (ICRPS), about 53 graduate students, faculty members and professional researchers met in Rovaniemi to discuss, exchange and learn on rural...
In many ways, “rural philanthropy” is nothing more than a short-hand phrase for describing core social norms and conventions that have long characterized small and sometimes isolated communities across Canada, writes John Lorinc in The...
Over the last few months, exciting progress has made with the Evaluating Sustainable Governance for Non-Profit Organizations in Rural Canada – a study funded by the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation (CRRF), and the Mitacs...