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The Radio Station Building Peace in Uganda

Mary Warner | Posted 01.09.2013 | Canada Impact
Read More: Uganda, Gulu, Rural, Farming, Child Soldier, Rebels, Farm Radio International, Uganda Child Soldier, Lunch With Mary, Uganda Child Soldier Radio, Farm Radio International Uganda, Uganda Radio, Canada Impact News
Mary Warner

David Okidi is a journalist in Northern Uganda and was the station manager at Mega FM, a radio station in the northern Ugandan region of Gulu. He recently joined the board of directors of Farm Radio International. Farm Radio International (FRI) helps African radio broadcasters meet the needs of local small-scale farmers and their families in rural communities. I met him for lunch.

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Living Off-Grid in Ontario [VIDEO]

Phillip Vannini and Jonathan Taggart | Posted 10.20.2012 | Canada Impact
Read More: Lifestyle, Technology, Rural, Comfort, Off-Grid, Solar Energy, Vimeo, Rural Ontario, Rural Technology, Living Offgrid, Living Off the Grid, Video, Canada Impact News
Phillip Vannini and Jonathan Taggart

Follow along the journey of two off-gridders from rural Ontario as they demonstrate the functioning of a few domestic technologies and reflect on the off-grid lifestyle. In this short video Murray and Nan show you what it's like to live a life you might be struggling to imagine!

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Sunset For Canada's Small Towns?

CP | Morgan Lowrie, The Canadian Press | Posted 10.13.2011 | Canada
Read More: New Rural Economy Project, Dying Small Towns, Rural Canada, Warner Alberta, Rural, Small Towns Canada, Rural Populition, Small Towns, Canada News

MONTREAL - Small Canadian towns are painfully aware of the existential predicament they face. Few are strangers to the sobering realities of declining...

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