THE RURBAN FRINGE

Health Care Partnership Benefits Rural Community

The Town of High River announced a landmark partnership this week at a sod-turning ceremony for a unique, rural medical centre designed to draw new doctors into their area and improve access to services into the future.
The centre, borne of efforts between the Town of High River, the Municipal District of Foothills and local family and emergency [...]

New Report Tackles Smart Growth in Rural Communities

While rural landscapes across the country vary widely, many rural communities face the dilemma of how to support growth while maintaining their rural identity.  A new report, Putting Smart Growth to Work in Rural Communities, commissioned by the International City/County Management Association under an agreement with the US Environmental Protection Agency, seeks to answer those [...]

Village of Gold River Creates YouTube Video in Bid for Energy-From-Waste Plant

Residents of the Vancouver Island community of Gold River have put their overwhelming support for a proposed energy-from-waste facility into a video on YouTube. 

The video, along with a Letter of Support signed by 318 village residents over a three-day period last week, requests that the Board of Metro Vancouver and BC’s Minister of Environment, Barry [...]

Multiculturalism Grants & Contributions Program

On June 27, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) launched Inter-Action, Canada’s new Multiculturalism Grants and Contributions Program.  This program supports the Canadian Multiculturalism Act by assisting the socio-economic integration of individuals and communities by building a socially cohesive society.
There are two Inter-Action funding streams:  Projects and Events.
For more information, application guidelines and general application forms, visit [...]

Using Social Media to Build Community Food Security

I’ve only recently discovered the bits & bytes website, an online food security resource database.  Developed with financial support from the BC Community Food Action Initiative and the Government of Canada’s Social Development Partnerships Program, the site strives to be a living, ever-growing cornucopia of freely-accessible, community food security information and resources.
The database hosts a range [...]

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