 | Sustaining Northern Communities |
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In February of 2010, the 1st annual Sustaining Northern Communities Conference took place in Thunder Bay. In addition to a number of great speakers, a visioning session was held in which the participants were asked a number of resilience based questions within a 20 year time frame. The visions of the participants would be valuable to this initiative and I'd like to suggest we engage the organizers. Alex Boulet aaboulet@lakeheadu.ca was co-chair of the event and would be a good person to contact about the conference. |
| Re: Sustaining Northern Communities |
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Thanks Joe for putting me on to this. I am now working through the responses and will produce a report soon. The results so far are very encourage (of course the participants are self selecting, but we had 160 registrants for the conference- business, university/college, high school, municipal workers, MP ,MPP, etc.) Sustainable Communities in the North is currently undergoing incorporation and we have our first study proposal in the works for may june. Our vision for SCN is "A community and culture for Northern Ontario founded on the principals of community resilience." As you can imagine, I am very excited to learn of this initiative. I am interested to learn how SCN and our partners can contribute. |