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August 18 – 21, 2019 | Ottawa The 2019 AMO Conference, Municipalities: Ontario’s Frontline, promises to be a great opportunity to connect with your municipal colleagues from across Ontario. With expert keynotes, 18+ concurrent...
The Alberta Centre for Sustainable Rural Communities has been awarded a $25 000 grant from the Government of Alberta’s Anti-Racism Community Grant program. This program supports initiatives that raise awareness and understanding of racism and its...
For the past three weeks, the Saltwire Newspapers Deep Dives series, “How unexpected ideas are leading to a new rural economy” in Atlantic Canada, has focused on Atlantic Canada: thriving or just surviving? With...
Registration Open for 2019 CRRF-NAF Conference Organizers of the upcoming Building Sustainable Communities Conference are excited to announce registration is now open! You can register for the conference by clicking here. Discounts for early bird...
Recently appointed Minister of Rural Economic Development, Bernadette Jordan, and the minister’s Parliamentary Secretary MP Marc Serré, along with their staff, have been busy consulting the public and rural development stakeholders across Canada. This...
The School of Environmental Design and Rural Development at the University of Guelph, in partnership with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA), hosted a one-day symposium to showcase rural research being...
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...
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...