Will innovation support or undermine rural and Northern Canada?

Northern and rural areas are losing stores to e-commerce, cinemas to video-streaming, and professional jobs to e-health and e-education, and getting only a small return in the way of reduced costs of living and limited jobs. 
This country has not yet learned how to diversify our innovation economy, in the way Norway, Sweden, and Finland are doing, write Ken Coates and Carin Holroyd.

In the 1970s, Canada had an impressive network of highway lodges, gas stations, and motels positioned strategically along the long and winding roads that connected southern and urban areas to rural and small-town Canada. Today, most of these way-stations are gone, and the g...

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