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Current system is burdensome for small communities with limited resources
The Rural Development Institute says increasing the culture of use in rural areas is equally important to making faster broadband available
Language barriers and transportation are some of the common challenges for refugees settling in rural Manitoba, says five-region study by Rural Development Institute
Brandon University’s Rural Development Institute hopes to gather input from food processors in rural Manitoba to make more innovation possible
A draft strategy proposes ways to improve support business startups and other forms of rural development
A Brandon research centre believes rural Manitoba contains a wealth of innovation ideas and hopes to create new support services to help residents get their ideas to market
A more co-ordinated approach is sought, a new committee’s chair says
The RDI report includes six municipal case studies
Statistics Canada analysis shows many lawyers, accountants and other key service providers will be at retirement age in next decade in rural Canada
The wave of retirements expected to roll across rural Canada in the next decade won’t just affect the farmers in your community. Rural and small-town Canada could have fewer lawyers, accountants, doctors and funeral directors too, according to a recent analysis of the ages of those self-employed outside bigger centres. About one in every fourThey’re slow workers, but spurge-eating beetles can have a big impact on infested pastures and hay land
Having found a beetle with a taste for leafy spurge, researchers are now trying to figure out how to get the insects to gobble up more of the noxious, invasive weed. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada researchers from Brandon Research Centre are in the final year of a three-year study of beetles chowing down on leafy
