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Youth Take Charge Program Accepting Applications for Funding

The newly created Youth Take Charge program aims to increase youth attachment to Canada by encouraging engagement in the fields of history and heritage, civic and youth service, arts and culture and economic activities.
The program will provide grants and contributions to eligible organizations in support of projects involving youth aged 7 – 30.  
The first deadline for applications is June [...]

Exploring Rural Development: A Tale of Two Communities, Part III

Ask … and you shall receive!  Below is Part III of a three-part guest series exploring community development and its impacts.  Thanks to a reader’s suggestion, photos of both communities have been included.  Read on to discover the common-sense – yet often overlooked – lessons these communities offer.  Click on the following links to read Part I and [...]

Exploring Rural Development: A Tale of Two Communities, Part II

Below is Part II of a three-part guest series exploring community development and its impacts.  Part I can be viewed here.
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A Tale of Two Communities, Part II
By Peter MacGibbon
In my first posting, I described two neighbouring rurban communities undertaking simultaneous Community Centre development projects, with very different challenges posed to them by their contrasting geographies.  I’ll now [...]

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