North America Canada Prairies SaskatchewanRural Municipality of Craik No. 222The Rural Municipality of Craik No. 222 is a rural municipality in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within Census Division No. 7 and SARM Division No. 2. The RM is centrally located between the cities of Regina ...
Bollman, Ray D. and Brian Biggs. (1992) "Rural and Small Town Canada: An Overview". Chapter 1 in Bollman, Ray D. (ed.) Rural and Small Town Canada (Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing).Bollman, R., (2000). Rural and Small Town Canada: An Overview. Online document, available ...
The establishment of cities in Canada has played a pivotal role in the displacement, dispossession, and marginalization of Indigenous peoples. Yet, more than half of the Indigenous population now resides in cities, and urbanization continues to increase. This paper addresses a specific aspect of ...
Fig. 2.4. Daily laborers in Indian cities suffer from lack of shelter and sleep on roadsides. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme is incapable of absorbing the demand for employment. The second wave of the pandemic aggravated the economic and health conditions, especially ...
Brain drain to Canada’s cities Our team observes that these impacts are moredirectly felt within rural spaces in Canada. Rural citizens often find it difficult to access psychologists who work within the public system. Many psychologists have increasing w...
Moreover, several studies of single countries report lower levels of subjective well-being in the capital city or largest cities, including the US (Okulicz-Kozaryn, 2017), Canada (Lu et al., 2015), New Zealand (Morrison, 2011), Ireland (Brereton et al., 2008), Sweden (Gerdtham and ...
Comparing with cities, rural communities especially those declining rural communities have become vulnerable to natural disasters owing to their backward socioeconomic conditions. Taking Xun County of China’s Henan Province as the study area, the paper
A 2005 World Bank Policy Research Paper proposes an operational definition of rurality based on population density and distance to large cities (Chomitz, Buys, and Thomas 2005). The report argues that these criteria are important gradients along which economic behavior and appropriate development ...
Most people are aware of the large and persistent gender imbalance in elected office at all levels of government in Canada, but few appreciate the far greater imbalance that occurs outside of large cities. This deficit arises not from rural voter bias, but from low numbers of female candidates...
The report compiled 10 key conclusions from half a dozen reports published since 2017 on the impacts of climate change in Canada and the country's progress on adaptation. While climate change impacts on cities such as urban heat islands and urban flooding have received ...