Ontario

Wealth Creation and Rural Livelihoods (WCRL), a US-based learning network of practitioners, researchers and policymakers focused on creating and sustaining rural wealth, is offering a webinar titled “Healthy Food in Health Care - How Hospitals as Anchor Institutions Can Help Advance Regional Food Systems.” Several presenters will share a variety of perspectives on the intersection between regional food systems and health care. This promises to be an informative webinar addressing two issues that have generated discussion within the WCRL community. The webinar will take place on Thursday, December 13, 2012 from 1 – 2:30 pm ET.

Inscription: https://www.constantcontact.com/ca

Site: http://ruralwealth.org/page/webinars-1

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Making Rights Real: The Implementation of International Human Rights In Canada

December 10th is Human Rights Day

The Human Rights Research and Education Centre of the University of Ottawa and Canada Without Poverty invite you to the interactive webinar Making Rights Real: The Implementation of International Human Rights In Canada

This webinar will address the following questions and more on the implementation of human rights in Canada:

Did you know that Canada has committed itself to ensuring that everyone has a right to an adequate standard of living? How would you go about claiming this right in Canada? What does this right mean in times of fiscal restraint? Does it mean different things for different groups of people?

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December 10, 2012
12:00-13:00 EST

No registration is required, free and open to the public

Moderator:
Leilani Farha, Executive Director of Canada Without Poverty and economic and social rights expert

Expert Panelists:

Bruce Porter, Social Rights Advocacy Centre (Ontario)

Steve Estey, Council of Canadian’s with Disabilities, Chair of the International Committee (Nova Scotia)

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North Atlantic Forum

From climate change to economic turmoil, our rural communities are facing unprecedented challenges. The 2013 North Atlantic Forum in Hólar, Iceland, will examine how those challenges impact the development of rural tourism. This international conference critically explores ideas, best practices and innovation from around the North Atlantic rim, with relevance to rural areas everywhere.

The North Atlantic Forum (NAF) is a biennial conference for scholars, community leaders, local government officials, businesspersons, and other practitioners from the broad North Atlantic, seeking to facilitate information exchange, knowledge mobilization and research dissemination among its members.

NAF 2013 - Rural Tourism in Changing Times is a collaboration between:

North Atlantic Forum, a ‘collegial assembly’ built on the network set up by the North Atlantic Islands Program, based at the Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, in Charlottetown, Canada: www.upei.ca/iis/naf
Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation, whose mandate is to revitalize rural Canada through education and research for rural leaders in the community, the private sector and in government: https://crrf.ca/
Department of Rural Tourism, Hólar University College, North Iceland, set up in 1996, which collaborates closely with tourism practitioners and now offers four different programs of study in Rural Tourism and Event Management that embrace both theory and practice. www.holar.is

Call for Papers

In times of global economic turmoil and climate change, this conference will explore the challenges, practices of and the opportunities in smart and sustainable rural tourism. The programme will address the development challenges through four interrelated and strategic perspectives - Community, Experience, Economy and the Environment. Through these four interrelated themes and a highly participatory programme the conference will critically explore strategic opportunities for innovative, yet concrete and practical solutions for sustainable rural tourism.

Paper proposals (title and abstract of not more than 300 words) should be submitted through https://www.naf2013.holar.is/index.php/conference/accepted-abstracts by January 15, 2013.

All presenters must register for the conference.

Key dates

January 15, 2013 – deadline for submission of abstracts.

January 31, 2013 – notification of accepted abstracts.

Registration – Early Bird (25% discount) – March 29, 2013

April 26, 2013 – deadline for registration.