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U.S. to spend $7.3 billion on rural clean energy projects

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Reuters – President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday said the U.S. will spend $7.3 billion from 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act to fund clean energy projects helmed by rural electric cooperatives. The 16 funded projects will reduce energy costs and increase reliability for rural Americans, who tend to pay more for energy, the White House said.
Sparse farmyards dot the landscape looking down from the eastern edge of Riding Mountain National Park.
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Can we escape rural decline?

Depopulation is so widespread that some fail to see the policies behind the trend, researcher says

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Editor’s note: The final story in our series exploring the complex factors behind rural depopulation in Manitoba, why it matters, the solutions that have been tried and what keeps young people in small communities. Read parts one, two, three and four here. It’s a snowy day in rural Japan. Inside the classroom, many kids are
Students learn about growing food through an indoor gardening program facilitated by Agriculture in the Classroom.
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Opportunity, skills, belonging: case studies in rural youth retention

Many programs to entice kids to stay in rural areas have been tried. What is working? This is the third in our series that examines Manitoba’s rural depopulation problem

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Editor’s note: This is part 3 in our series exploring the complex factors behind rural depopulation in Manitoba, why it matters, the solutions that have been tried and what keeps young people in small communities. Read parts one and two, here. The Rural STEP program that employed Margie Brincheski as a teenager helped get her
W.G. Dickson’s combine setup, pictured with his sons, Murray and Archie, in 1943.
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Combining alone: Farming for the future with fewer farmers

Technology led to exponential productivity growth in the 20th century, but bigger, fewer and more advanced farms also had a role in rural migration

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It isn’t a setup you’d see any machinery company advise. The black-and-white photo, circa 1943, shows Murray and Archie Dickson atop their family’s Nichols & Shepherd Red River Special. The pull-type combine is hitched to a small, metal-wheeled tractor. There’s a long shaft with universal joints linking the tractor’s steering wheel to the one on
A group of young women employed by the STEP program in the ‘70s.
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How do you keep a kid on the farm?

Part 1: STEP ‘73 and the ongoing conundrum of rural depopulation

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The truck’s name was Little George. It was brilliant orange, the only colour available when, decades before online shopping, Wanda McConnell went to town to pick up paint. The truck takes up the foreground of a grainy photo, taken in the summer of 1973 around the time of the Hamiota parade. In it, Little George
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Municipalities tired of footing bill

Council reps say firefighter medical callouts misused

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Manitoba’s municipalities want to stop sending their firefighters to move patients. Failing that, they want to charge the province for their services. Medical and lift assists were among the topics pushed by local council representatives during the recent Association of Manitoba Municipalities conference in Brandon. Two interconnected resolutions earned debate on the floor: one to
‘As urban populations cry for housing, there’s a long list of rural communities that have watched their populations shrink for decades.’ – Alexis Stockford.
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Editorial: The rural housing solution

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Canada’s housing crisis is getting a lot of attention. In September, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre introduced a private members bill that would tie the infrastructure funding the federal government provides to municipalities to a stated threshold of extra homes built in that municipality per year. On Nov. 7, federal Public Services and Procurement Minister Jean-Yves
Owners are on the lookout for a tractor stolen from a locked machine shed on the outskirts of Winnipeg earlier this fall.
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The rise of rural crime

And what local organizations want to do about it

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The mid-sized John Deere tractor was inside a locked machine shed on an agricultural property just south of Winnipeg. The next time the owner looked, the tractor was gone. “It’s unbelievable to me,” said the owner, who asked that his name not be printed. “No one lives at the yard site. It’s an old yard
“Public transportation isn’t only for people living in cities. It’s a service deserving of all Manitobans…”
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Rural residents endorse idea of public transit

Residents in southeastern Manitoba said they’d consider transit if it was affordable

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Most residents of southeastern Manitoba have their own vehicles but say they’d consider public transit or alternative transportation if it was affordable, would help them avoid parking issues or winter travel and be a support for seniors unable to drive. Those are the takeaways after the Southeast Regional Transportation Initiative surveyed residents in more than a
Editorial, Op/Ed

Editorial: Food and the four-leaf clover

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Today’s teenagers aren’t eating particularly well, and it’s not just those in cities. In fact, according to a recently released study of Grade 9 students by the University of Manitoba, rural kids might be eating worse in terms of things like sugars and saturated fats. And when it came to veggies or certain major nutrients,

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