Tracey Harvey hopes to offer policy-makers ideas on transforming the Kootenay pot trade.
JOHN BOIVIN - Arrow Lake News - Sept. 5th, 2018 @ 12pm
In six weeks the Kootenay economy is going to change forever — and we’re nowhere near ready for it, says a local academic.
Every year, the Columbia Basin Rural Development Institute (RDI) at Selkirk College takes stock of well-being in the Columbia Basin-Boundary region. This region wide check-up investigates a number of indicators across economic, social, cultural and environmental topics.
The 2017 Snapshot report is now available and highlights issues that may be cause for celebration or concern.
There are now more seniors than youth in the Columbia Basin-Boundary region, and our population is aging faster than the overall populations for Canada and British Columbia.
Statistics Canada recently released data from the 2016 Census on age and sex of the population. While Basin-Boundary populations are showing certain demographic trends that are common across much of the country, the data shows that there are other issues that are unique to rural places, including the many diverse communities in our region.
This applied research project explored key characteristics, financial and human resources, organizational capacity, social innovation, and organizational connections in the Columbia Basin-Boundary non-profit social sector. The research was an important step towards enabling evidence-based decision-making by our regions’ colleges and Columbia Basin Trust in efforts related to strengthening the sector.
Society and human communities are complex, with a variety of variables at work. While society can be thought of as a broader term describing the direct and indirect social connections between people, community is made up of individuals who are closely connected, often by geography. Community can be defined broadly as “a group of people who live, learn, work, and play in an environment at a given time”.
Poverty is a significant concern in Canada, with the rate of poverty being the highest among the world’s wealthiest industrialized nations. British Columbia (BC) is frequently cited as having one of the highest rates of poverty in Canada, with 9.9% of the population living in poverty.
