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Ep. 43: The Intersection of Disability and Rural & Remote Communities
About eight million Canadians 15 and older have at least one disability. But there aren’t any statistics on exactly how many of them live in rural and remote parts of the country.
Almost two-thirds of the 5,123 municipalities in Canada are consider moderately remote, more remote or most remote by Statistics Canada.
In remote communities there are some distinctly different challenges compared to experiencing urban life with disability.
For this discussion, we wanted perspectives from some of the most remote parts of Canada. So we picked the far northwest, and the remotest part of down east in The Maritimes.
The Northwest Territories covers 1.1 million square kilometres, and much of it is remote.
Down east, over 80 per cent of the province of New Brunswick is forest.
It’s the most rural province of the three Maritime provinces — New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island — that have coastlines on the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean.
Be sure to catch this conversation with:
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By Ontario Disability Employment NetworkAbout eight million Canadians 15 and older have at least one disability. But there aren’t any statistics on exactly how many of them live in rural and remote parts of the country.
Almost two-thirds of the 5,123 municipalities in Canada are consider moderately remote, more remote or most remote by Statistics Canada.
In remote communities there are some distinctly different challenges compared to experiencing urban life with disability.
For this discussion, we wanted perspectives from some of the most remote parts of Canada. So we picked the far northwest, and the remotest part of down east in The Maritimes.
The Northwest Territories covers 1.1 million square kilometres, and much of it is remote.
Down east, over 80 per cent of the province of New Brunswick is forest.
It’s the most rural province of the three Maritime provinces — New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island — that have coastlines on the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean.
Be sure to catch this conversation with:
SHOW NOTES