The Rural Nova Scotia Health Care Crisis Working Group comprises people representing 11 municipal units from Mahone Bay around to Digby. Members of the public have also taken part and the Nova Scotia Health Coalition is working with them.
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England turns to the church to help fix rural internet
Though our cities now teem with fiber optic cables and 4G signals, it’s still common for rural areas to struggle with even basic connectivity. In the UK, a new pact between church and state could help local religious hubs become bastions of faster broadband. The National Church Institutions (NCIs) of the Church of England and […]
Young doctor using Facebook to recruit colleagues to rural Cape Breton
A family doctor in Neils Harbour in northern Cape Breton has posted a Facebook message to her former fellow med school and residency colleagues, hoping some of them will come and work in her community.
When it comes to abuse, rural long-term care homes face unique challenges
Across eastern Ontario, the number of reported cases have more than tripled from 2011 to 2016, according to the most recent data from the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. More than half of the homes with the highest rate of abuse were in small towns.
America’s Rural Hospitals Are Dangerously Fragile
This is the story of a small-town, publicly-owned hospital that, after thriving for decades, is struggling and now in all likelihood about to be appended to a large regional health-care system. The tale of Berger Municipal Hospital is, like that of many sectors of the American economy, one defined by industrial consolidation and the costs […]
President Trump signs order to promote broadband in rural areas
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will make it easier for companies to install high-speed broadband networks in rural areas. The move is designed to tackle the economic challenges of integrating broadband infrastructure in these communities — where 39 percent of people don’t have access to broadband — which the Obama administration […]
Microsoft forms rural broadband advocacy group called Connect Americans Now
Microsoft announced today that it will be launching a coalition called Connect Americans Now (CAN) to advocate for the FCC to eliminate regulatory hurdles that the group says are standing in the way of more widespread rural broadband deployment. In addition to Microsoft, the coalition’s members include The App Association, a software trade organization, and the […]
Rural Kansas Fights to Save Grocery Shops
Loren Lance was less than impressed when he pulled up to Charlie Brown’s Market, his community grocery store in Mildred, Kansas, to find the doors locked and the shelves bare a few years back. After fretting about it for a few days, the farmer’s wife, Regena, said: “I think we should see about buying it.” […]
Goodbye, George Bailey: Decline of Rural Lending Crimps Small-Town Business
Banks are closing branches and paring credit in rural America, focusing instead on booming urban markets. That leaves communities without the friendly faces of finance that once sustained them, and worsens an already tough economic environment. WSJ.com: What’s News US
Falling instant-noodle sales points to the economic rise of rural China
REUTERS/Jason Lee China is selling 8 billion fewer packets of instant noodles than it was in 2013. Fewer local migrants from rural China are moving to cities, which is affecting sales. Instead, workers are staying in rural areas of China where annual incomes are rising at a faster rate than in cities. People in China […]
