“We’re thinking about more diverse ways of building relationships across the Prairie provinces. We’re not talking about 100-mile diets here.” – STPHANE MCLACHLAN The federal government is providing $1 million for a five-year project in Manitoba to develop more community-based alternative food systems for rural, urban and northern Manitoba. The Community University Research Alliance (CURA)
“Alternative” Systems Get Mainstream Funding
Study Finds Strong Arts Presence In Rural Canada
“It just sort of verifies what we knew. We know we’re one of the largest arts centres in Western Canada.” – CINDI PATRICK REMPEL, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR STEINBACH ARTS COUNCIL If, as they say, art is “the knocking from the soul that gets answered,” rural Canada has opened its doors. Canada’s small and rural municipalities are
Value Chain Benefits Organic Milk Producers
The farmers had the milk and the processor wanted new business. Between them, they forged a new business relationship for mutual benefit. In December 2008, the Manitoba Organic Milk Co-op (MOM), and Notre Dame Creamery launched Organic Meadow, a new line of Manitoba-produced and processed organic milk. The organic milk sold here had previously come
Economic Development Advantages Of A Short Line
“There’s things that can come out of this that we can’t even foresee right now.” – KIM TAYLOR, REEVE OF THE RM OF PEMBINA Once there were elevators and brick factories here, but folks had all but given up hope of any commercial development returning to the tiny community of Darlingford. So six spanking new
Agricultural Societies Exploring New Approaches To Community Economic Development
“Ultimately, we had to change our concept of who we were.” – SILVER DONALD CAMERON With their fishery collapsing in the early 1990s and livelihoods disappearing, residents of tiny Ilse Madame on the southeastern tip of Cape Breton had two choices: find new ways to remain living here, or leave. About a third of their
Ag Societies Should Inspect Fairgrounds
Adrink spills on the bleacher stairs at the fair. No one notices until someone slips and falls after stepping in it. They injure their back. Later, they bring a claim against the agricultural society hosting the fair. Who is responsible? “Trust me, someone will be held responsible,” said John Ruban, president of Winnipeg-based Ruban Insurance
Urbanizing Deer Causes Headaches For Land And Property Owners
“The deer have become completely urbanized.” – RICK PAULS, MAYOR, KILLARNEY-TURTLE MOUNTAIN Lloyd Church’s 42-acre managed woodlot near Anola is a sorry sight these days, and not from disease, insects or age. It’s the countless white-tailed deer making his stand of trees an all-you-can-eat buffet. In a half-decade, as he’s observed increasing numbers of deer
Diabetes A Heavy Burden On Economy, Report Says
“Those two factors (diet and lifestyle) we see as critical to saving dollars within the health-care system and reducing the impact diabetes has on Canadians.” – JEREMY BRACE, NATIONAL MEDI A MANAGER FOR THE CDA Rising numbers of Canadians annually diagnosed with diabetes will cost the economy as much as $17 billion by 2020, according
“Home Is A Manitoba Farm” Quilt Selected In Homecoming 2010 Competition
It’s a familiar rural scene to many present-day Manitobans and former residents too. Now a farm set against a brilliant Prairie sky will depict home in Manitoba, captured as a fabric image by two women in their exquisite art quilt. Phyllis Gagne’s and Coreen Zerr’s quilt, titled Home is a Manitoba Farm and submitted to
Report Predicts Rise Of Dementia Among Aging Canadians
Canada must get ready now to care for a future onslaught of Alzheimer’s disease anticipated among its aging population, says a new study predicting the number diagnosed with the disease, or some form of dementia, will double in a generation. By 2038 as many as 1.1 million Canadians are expected to have the disease, according
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