Last week in Saskatoon rural community leaders, businesses, nonprofit organizations, governments, researchers, and students gathered to discuss rural issues at the Health and Shared Prosperity: 30th Annual Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation Conference. The conference brought 150 rural leaders from across Canada and internationally together to discuss the future of rural issues. The School of Environmental Design and Rural Development was well represented!
- Tracey Harvey (PhD student in Rural Studies): Transitioning to the New Rural Cannabis Economy
- Alex Petric (MSc student in Rural Planning and Development): Opportunites and Obstacles for Open Data in Rural Canada
- Neil Stoop (MSc graduate in Rural Planning and Development): What People Say: Application of Rural Definitions and Descriptors of Community in Ingersoll, Ontario
- Ashleigh Weeden (PhD student in Rural Studies): Rural 2.0: Place-Based Rural Community Innovation Systems
Here are a few of the social media postings from Saskatoon:
@apetric91 sharing research on open data in rural Ontario @SEDRD #crrf2018 pic.twitter.com/BOZqADpNK0
— Ryan Gibson (@ryanfgibson) October 11, 2018
Through the beauty of technology we are bridging in community leaders at the #crrf2018 in Saskatoon! pic.twitter.com/c10emsHCay
— Ryan Gibson (@ryanfgibson) October 11, 2018
The founders and the presidents @CRRF_FCRR #CRRF2018 pic.twitter.com/ClWRYftrO2
— Bojan Fürst (@bojanfurst) October 12, 2018
Copies of the presentations and posters will be available shortly on the conference website. The Health and Shared Prosperity: 30th Annual Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation Conference was co-hosted by the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation, Saskatchewan Economic Development Alliance, and the University of Saskatchewan. For more information about the conference please check out www.saskatoon2018.crrf.ca.