2013

Hello blogger community,

Since my last/first blog post lots has happened on my field experience frontier. Where to start? Well how about I start with the official project end? About a month ago my Pender Islands community inventory project was cancelled by the Southern Gulf Islands Economic Development Commission (SGI EDC), which I was employed by. The Termination was largely due to the lack of progress and the deviation from the original ideas proposed by the SGI EDC.

In April of this year, I started a summer-long internship with Économusée British Columbia, an initiative of the not-for-profit Société de développement économique de la Colombie Britannique (SDE). Subsidized by the federal program Young Canada Works, positions like these help

By Nicole Vaugeois

Hello y'all,

The Fresh Outlook Foundation is hosting its 6th Building SustainAble Communities conference November 2

Canadian and Australian rural communities have much in common. They are located in federations similar in structure and function with provinces/states having considerable authority over rural places.