THE RURBAN FRINGE

Groceries, Gas, Mail and More

In Flaxcombe, Saskatchewan, a small, sleepy village surrounded by grain and cattle farms, JC’s Little Valley Store is as much a necessity as it is a delight. 
Convincing my husband to arrive in a cloud of dust – with the sole purpose of getting gas and continuing on our way – it looks like the sort of  small, rural general store that was once [...]

A Municipal Insighting Initiative

Communities of Tomorrow, a partnership venture dedicated to exploring innovative and sustainable infrastructure solutions, is working with a number of Saskatchewan communities to prepare brainstorming sessions on creative approaches to infrastructure challenges.
Calling the process insighting, the sessions aim to gather everyone from equipment operators to senior engineers together to tackle challenging infrastructure problems and devise solutions.
It’s [...]