The North Coast Innovation Lab is seeking four graduate students to work with community partners on a series of community-based projects. The North Coast Innovation Lab (NCIL) is a place-based initiative for people who are invested in the future of Prince Rupert to work together on tangible projects and initiatives Read more…
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 is currently seeking nominations for Lifetime Members. Nominees may be a current CRRF/FCRR member, former CRRF/FCRR Read more…
This is a call for nominations for Members to be elected to the Board of the Canadian Revitalization Foundation/Fondation canadienne pour la revitalisation rurale (CRRF/FCRR). The Board is normally comprised of ten elected board members. There are currently three board positions open for election. To be eligible for election to Read more…
Please join us for the Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation (CRRF) to be held on Thursday, September 21 from 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm at the Prestige Lakeside, Nelson, British Columbia. Everyone is welcome. CRRF was founded in 1987 as a non-partisan voluntary network to foster Read more…
Working under the supervision of Dr. Greg Halseth (Canada Research Chair in Rural and Small Town Studies, University of Northern British Columba) this Post-Doctoral research opportunity will contribute to and help develop the Community Development Institute’s (CDI) research programming in the areas of community and economic transformation. Placement of this Read more…
What is the future role for the Government of Canada in rural infrastructure? The Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation, the Rural Development at Brandon University, and the Rural Policy Learning Commons prepared a submission to the Senate Committee on National Finance. The Senate Committee has been studying the design and delivery of Read more…
Recent economic and political developments have shed a new light on regional dynamics in Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the developed and developing world. In Australia, new political movements, including Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party and the Nick Xenophon Team, have combined populism with a distinctive regional agenda. Read more…
Economic Development Association of Canada is in the midst of solidifying the program for EDAC 2017 in Niagara Falls, Ontario on September 9-12. Would you like to share your expertise, a strategy or product, a success story or challenge that your community has faced? Your colleagues from coast to coast to coast want to Read more…
We invite you to submit an abstract in the range of the following streams within the ICSD2017 program: Economic Sustainability: Financial Sustainability, SME, MicroFinance, Emerging Countries, International Trade Environmental Sustainability: Water and Soil conservation, Healthcare, Renewable Energies, Food and Environmental Legislation Socio-Cultural Sustainability: Sustainable Urbanism, Education, Human Development, Psychology, Sociology We are inviting proposals for paper presentations, Read more…
Rising Up: A Graduate Students Conference on Indigenous Knowledge and Research in Indigenous Studies is an international gathering held annually. Rising Up attracts scholars in all forms of Indigenous research with approximately 60 representatives from around the world to showcase their work. The University of Manitoba Native Studies Graduate Students Read more…