News/Nouvelles : Rural Canada News Scan, April 2010

Source: Compiled by the Canadian Rural Research Network.
Online news on rural Canada from March 29, 2010 to May 1, 2010. Click on the heading to access the online article.

Med school students need to reflect nation's diversity: Group
Montreal Gazette, March 29, 2010
"We do have a nationwide doctor shortage in both urban and rural communities, but it's twice as acute in rural Canada as in urban," said Stobbe, ...

Medical school admission targets urged for rural and low-income Canadians
CMAJ, April 1, 2010
Inadequate representation of Canadian medical students from rural and low-socioeconomic backgrounds is exacerbating Canada's family physician shortage and ...

Canada's digital divide
Globe and Mail, Apr. 03, 2010
“In rural Canada you click on a website, then get up and go the bathroom and hope that when you return the site is up,” says Christina Benty, ...

Canada Needs More Diverse Doctors, Say Med Students
The Epoch Times, Apr 4, 2010
By Joan Delaney VICTORIA, British Columbia—Canada needs to admit more rural and low-income students to medical school to alleviate the doctor shortage in ...

Urban-rural relations complicated in N.B.
Times & Transcript, April 5th, 2010
If the Province of Toronto has a peculiar ring to it, how does the Province of Moncton sound? No, Moncton council's frustration with the province's property assessment system hasn't launched it into a separatist fervour. …

Man. gives $500K to rural hemp plant
CBC.ca, April 6, 2010
The new plant will allow it to produce 18000 metric tonnes of fibre a year, Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Stan Struthers said. ...

Canada's health care workforce shows declining migration rates
CNW Group, April 8, 2010
In 2006, nearly 19% of the Canadian population lived in rural Canada, compared to a little more than 20% in 2001. Between 2001 and 2006, rural Canada ...

Fewer health-care providers move around Canada
CBC.ca, April 8, 2010
During the 2001 to 2006 study period, rural Canada experienced no net losses of health-care providers because of migration. But rural Canada did experience ...

Kicking back on drug prices
Toronto Star, Apr 09 2010
Independent and rural pharmacies are not built on the same model as the big chain stores and may be forced out of business by the changes. ...

CRTC to CBC: You've got 30 days to shape up!
Globe and Mail
Hence the possibility that Wayne Rostad will take to the road again and talk folksy with the folksy folk of rural Canada. Then compose a song, on the spot, ...

Biomedical jobs funded in rural NS
CBC.ca, April 18, 2010
The Nova Scotia government is investing $900000 in a rural Cape Breton company that plans to recruit as many as 75 biomedical engineers and technologists ...

Rural Canada top priority for Liberals: Speller
Tillsonburg News, Apr 19 2010
"Rural Canada matters," Ignatieff said. "It puts food on our tables and drives much of the resource wealth of our country. Rural Canadians deserve the same ...

Police must do more to sell gun registry: Bill Blair
CTV.ca, Apr. 20 2010
Rural Ontario and rural Canada doesn't need the Police Chief of Toronto to tell it anything. Once again, it's the elite city politicians and police trying ...

Jeff Jedras: Gun registry's fate is in NDP hands
National Post (blog), April 21, 2010
Let's start with rural Canada. Will the Liberal reforms be enough to appease registry opponents? Not all of them. But some of them. ...

Liberals jettison West, rural areas in registry stance
StarPhoenix, April 21, 2010
Just more than a year ago, the freshly minted Liberal leader bragged of his ties to rural Canada and of his affection for the West. ...

Matt Gurney: Michael Ignatieff's brand new mistake
National Post (blog), April 22, 2010
To accomplish his “goals,” Ignatieff has not only decided to write off any hopes for a Liberal expansion into rural Canada for a generation, ...

Michael Ignatieff pushes Eat Canadian plan
Toronto Star, Apr 26 2010
“Urban Canada takes rural Canada for granted,” he added. “But rural Canada not only feeds urban Canada, it employs urban Canada “You bet farming matters, ...

Liberals continue to try to shore up rural votes with policy announcement
Winnipeg Free Press, 26/04/2010
It's part of the party's new effort to convince rural Canada that the Liberals aren't just a downtown urban party. Ignatieff has also moved to amend the ...

Mike Brown - Drug System Reform Will Support Rural Pharmacies
Wawa-news.com, April 27th, 2010
I want you to know that our government values pharmacy services in rural and underserviced areas. That is why we're devoting additional funding to ensure ...

Doctors group wants gun registry to stay
Toronto Sun, April 28, 2010
“While it is true that there are more guns in rural areas, and therefore more opposition to gun control, it is equally true that there are higher rates of ...

Failing democracy needs overhaul, Goodale suggests
Lethbridge Herald, 29 April 2010
Goodale, MP for Wascana, Sask. will also slam Ottawa's failing grade on policies and priorities for rural Canada and a flailing agriculture industry that he ...

Ignatieff unveils rural policy in Marsh
Bradford Times, 30 April 2010
Set against the backdrop of the Holland Marsh, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff unveiled another platform of his party: a promise to develop...

Prison farms should remain in Canada
Red River Valley Echo, 30 April 2010
Rural Canada, especially western Canada is all about conservative principals. In most cases that translates into supporting the Conservative Party as well, ...

Iggy makes another appeal for the 'rural' voters: Woodcock
Toronto Sun, May 1, 2010
Here again there's a rural-urban divide. “Sustainable” is a favourite buzzword for urbanites. But in rural Canada, it's code for being forced to reduce or ...