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S3E11 – Rural and island responses to COVID-19

May 12, 2020
Tagged as: COVID-19, CRRF, islands, RPLC, Rural, Rural Routes

Geography matters. And when it comes to pandemics such as this COVID-19 one that we find ourselves in the middle of, how we respond to pandemics is very much influenced by geography. That curiosity about…

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S3E10 – Rural Trauma

May 6, 2020
Tagged as: CRRF, Dalhousie University, domestic violence, gun violence, mass shooting, Nova Scotia, RPLC, Rural, Rural Routes, rural trauma, The Harris Centre

Rural Routes · S3E10 – Rural Trauma This episode of Rural Routes features Dr. Kathleen Kevany from the Faculty of Agriculture at Dalhousie University in Truro, Nova Scotia. She is the director of the Rural…

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S3E8-Rural-Urban Interaction

November 25, 2019
Tagged as: CRRF, Rural, Rural policy, Rural Routes, rural-urban

Bill Reimer, Brian Dabson, and Zita Cobb made for a stellar opening panel of the 2019 Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation conference this past October in St. John’s at Memorial University’s Signal Hill Campus. They dived…

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S3E7-Rural Innovation in Ireland

July 8, 2019
Tagged as: Ireland, rural development, rural innovation, Rural policy, Rural Routes

A growing population, opportunities in a variety of industries and sectors, focus on experience and food, and a drive to find new and better ways of doing just about anything? If you think this describes…

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S3E6 – Social enterprise and community development

February 12, 2019
Tagged as: Rural, rural development, Rural Routes, Social Enterprise

Social enterprises are increasingly a tool in the community development toolbox. In November 2018, Drs. Natalie Slawinski and Blair Winsor from the Faculty of Business Administration at Memorial University of Newfoundland and the Harris Centre…

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S3E5 – Rural Media

January 30, 2019
Tagged as: Blyth, British Columbia, CRRF, journalism, media, Nelson, Ontario, RPLC, Rural, rural media, Rural Routes, The Harris Centre, University of Aruba

Media industry is in trouble. For a long time now it has been shedding jobs and converging into ever larger corporate entities where profits outweigh any residual sense of responsibility to small communities for whom…

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S3E3-The Country Mouse and The City Mouse

November 14, 2018
Tagged as: CRRF, David Freshwater, EPISODE, Kevin Morgan, MUN, RPLC, Rural, Rural Routes, rural-urban, The Harris Centre

Everybody knows the old story of the Country Mouse and the City Mouse. In this episode of Rural Routes, Dr. David Freshwater of University of Kentucky and Dr. Kevin Morgan from the University of Wales…

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S3E2 – Community First Tourism Development

October 17, 2018
Tagged as: Canada, Heather Mair, Karin Larsen, mark stoddard, Rural, rural development, Rural Routes, tourism

Developing rural tourism is a complicated process fraught with pitfalls, but, when done right, it provides economic and social benefits to rural communities. In this episode we talk to researchers and practitioners about tourism development…

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S2E15 – Self-care: Rural doctors support each other

April 25, 2018
Tagged as: Canada, CRRF, EPISODE, health, Ontario, Podcast, RPLC, rural health, rural medicine, Rural policy, Rural Routes

Being doctor in a rural community has unique challenges; from knowing too much about your friends and neighbours, to being the first line of defense in difficult life or death situations, it can be hard to find someone who really understands. This time on Rural Routes, we listen in on a group of four women, each practising in, or with experience in, rural Ontario communities, whose informal support network has become a crucial line of support, both in terms of their work and their lives. Join us as they laugh about their experiences, share their most challenging experiences, and explain why, despite the distance between them and their busy schedules, they make time to connect.

Resources:
Society of Rural Physicians of Canada
Rural Road Map for Action (PDF)

Rural Routes Partners:
The Leslie Harris Centre of Regional Policy and Development, MUN
Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation
Rural Policy Learning Commons Partnership
The National Campus and Community Radio Association

CHMR Campus Radio

Music by Laura C. Bates performed by Trent Severn.

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S2E14-Marijuana legalization

April 9, 2018
Tagged as: British Columbia, Canada, CRRF, EPISODE, marijuana, Newfoundland and Labrador, Rural Routes

The legalization of marijuana could potentially provide significant benefits to rural communities. With the July deadline for legalization coming closer, we talked to potential growers in BC and Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as a policy analyst in Nova Scotia to help us understand what the legalization of cannabis might mean for rural Canada.

Resources:
Atlantic Provinces Economic Council