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Kelly Vodden (Editor), Ryan Gibson (Editor), Godfrey Baldacchino (Editor) Place Peripheral examines community and regional development in rural, island, and remote locales from a place-based approach. This is a timely edited collection, addressing themes...
Summary by Keith Good, www.farmpolicy.com & Social Media Manager, farmdoc project at the University of Illinois. “Janet Adamy and Paul Overberg reported on the front page of Saturday’s Wall Street Journal that, “At the corner...
Purdue Agile Strategy Lab will provide Strategic Doing 301, a 2.5-day training in the deep skills, tools and frameworks of agile strategy and collaboration. Called “Strategic Doing”, this discipline teaches participants how to design...
Over its 10-year history, the ICNGD has successfully provided two “northern-tailored” graduate-level degree programs; the Master of Northern Governance and Development (MNGD) being the first degree offered by the U of S in the...
OTTAWA, JUNE 15, 2017: The partnership agreement signed today in Ottawa between the Institut de la Francophonie pour le Développement durable (IFDD), a subsidiary body of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), and the Réseau...
Story by Kyle Bakx, CBC News “The reaction was instant in the community of Invermere, in southeast B.C., when the news broke that Kicking Horse Coffee was sold to Italy’s Lavazza. Everywhere co-founder Elana Rosenfeld went around town people greeted her with ‘Buongiorno!’...
“Canada is a land of immigrants” is a phrase we hear often. And while that is certainly true in many ways, immigration is a complex issue we don’t spend nearly as much time talking...
We invite submissions of extended abstracts (500-700 words) for consideration around inclusion in a special issue proposal titled Beyond Binary Constructions of Labour Mobilities that is under development for submission in Spring, 2017. Final...
With 2016 rapidly coming to a close, the Migration Information Source, the Migration Policy Institute’s online journal, has launched its annual countdown of the Top 10 Migration Issues of the year. They have tapped into...
Steven Chapman admits that conducting his own hemodialysis treatment hundreds of kilometres from the nearest hospital is “kind of a dangerous thing”, but he prefers that to the alternatives. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/home-dialysis-1.3873291