Rural Canada is home to roughly one in five Canadians. It’s also home to the vast majority of the Canadian land base, including watersheds and food sheds — geographical areas that supply food ...

In rural Thunder Bay, funding has so far been granted for the following projects: • East Gorham: $48,000 for an emergency communications system, including a tower and radios. • Neebing ...

Crime rates in rural communities are consistently higher than in urban centres, suggests new data presented in a Statistics Canada report ... from those urban areas seeking to victimize ...

The most recent data from Statistics Canada on police-reported crime showed the Crime Severity Index, which measures the volume and seriousness, was 33 per cent higher in rural areas than urban.