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Dr. Laurie Moss on rural population attraction
We ask Dr, Laurie Moss to explain rural population attraction in this video Dr. Moss is uniquely qualified to tackle this question. The co-founder of the International Amenity Migration Centre, he has spent decades studying individuals…
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Community Forestry in Canada — Professor Sara Teitelbaum
Community forestry in Canada has taken root over the past three decades. Locally run forestry initiatives have been hailed as welcome alternatives to large corporate and industrial logging practices, yet little research has been done…
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Mobilizing Rural Investment Capital
The Need for Rural Investment Capital in BC Access to investment capital is crucial to business and economic development anywhere – but is especially important in rural areas. However, research completed by SIBAC and others…
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Nelson — One of the World’s Most Intelligent Cities?
Nelson has just been named one of the most intelligent cities in the world. The Intelligent Community Forum has announced an international shortlist of 21 intelligent cities that recognizes digital innovation — and Nelson, population 10,000,…
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International Cooperation Comes to Kamloops!
The BC Council for International Cooperation (BCCIC) warmly has extended an invitation to attend the BC 2030 Meeting on November 21st in Kamloops. The meeting will discuss how the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) link to the work going on…
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Healthy Food for Everyone — Is It Possible?
Healthy Food for All? Healthy food for everyone — is it possible? On October 16, World Food Day, BC-based environment organization Wildsight’s Elk Valley Branch presented FOOD for THOUGHT: Food Security For Our Communities –…
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Rural Bandwidth + Creative Entrepreneurs = Kootenay Business TV
MOST SMALL towns — let alone tiny villages and rural regions — lack daily newspapers, or radio and television stations. News tends to flow in only one direction in BC — from Vancouver & Victoria out…
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Dennis Walker on Rural Internet Radio
Canadian media is becoming increasingly concentrated. A relatively small number of companies control most of Canada’s airwaves. This means most small rural communities lack the meaningful local news and information small-town newspapers and radio stations…
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Premier Clark Appoints Donna Barnett as Minister of State for Rural Economic Development
Premier Christy Clark has announced her intention for Cariboo-Chilcotin MLA Donna Barnett to be sworn in as Minister of State for Rural Economic Development by Her Honour, Lieutenant-Governor Judith Guichon. “Every community in British Columbia…
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Fogo Island
In a country full of tiny, remote communities, Newfoundland’s tiny Fogo Island has to rank among the smallest and hardest to get to. Devastated by the collapse of the cod fishery in the 1990s, Fogo…
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Local Agriculture — a Chat With Rob Gay
Rob Gay is both the Area C Director and chair of the Regional District East Kootenay. Rob sits on the board of SIBAC, and through the Association of Kootenay Boundary Local Governments helped organize a…
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Rural Broadband via “Air Fibre — Kaslo InfoNet’s Tim Ryan
Kaslo InfoNet’s Tim Ryan explains how Kaslo’s community non-profit ISP managed to get high-speed fibre to his home office — good news for rural residents of rugged, under-served British Columbia.
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First Nations & the Web — a Conversation with Jeff Ward
Canada’s oldest cultures are embracing the 21st century! Victoria-based Jeff Ward, the founder of Aboriginally owned and operated web developer Animikii, named Aboriginal Business of The Year by the BC Achievement Foundation in 2010, is a prime example.…
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Heidi Khokhar
Eugene, Oregon-based Rural Development Initiatives (RDI), has supported the creation of resilient rural communities in Oregon and northern California for over 25 years. Through programs such as WealthWorks Northwest, Rural Economic Vitality Workshops, and First Impressions,…
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Rural Broadband — Kaslo Style
Rural Broadband — Kaslo Style. If rural BC is to prosper in the 21st century, access to affordable, reliable high-speed Internet is essential. Kaslo InfoNet (KiN)’s Don Scarlett and Tim Ryan talk about fibre optic…
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