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Interactive digital media platforms impact on Canadians lives

Open Access Government - Technology News

Experts propose purposeful screen use, good parental modeling, and educated screen time and behavior monitoring to encourage healthy screen use. (7) 7) Educational perspectives Interactive digital media platforms like video games and VR devices have changed many Canadians’ educational perspectives and lifestyles.

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Small college economic issues threaten their ability to function as a community asset

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " University President Freeman Hrabowski and an agenda for urban universities ," 2021 -- " President of Washington State University dies: fostered development of the "University District" adjacent to Downtown Spokane ," 2015 -- " Universities as elements of urban/downtown revitalization: the Portland State story and more ," 2014 -- " Better2016 (..)

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CFP: CJAL Special Issue: Libraries and/as Extraction

A Library Writer's Blog

We invite articles and essays that interrogate any aspect of extraction in academic libraries and archives related to library policies and practices, library and educator labour, LIS theory and other theoretical traditions, LIS education, and more. 2–3 (May 4, 2017): 175–84. She is the co-editor, with Karen P.

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How to Address Homelessness: Reflections from Research

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Policy approaches focused on the structural root causes of homelessness might prioritize progressive zoning and tax regimes, equity in access to childcare and education, initiatives to encourage savings, target debt relief, and/or augment the social safety net. 2019 ; Collinson and Reed, 2017 ). 2021 ; Gubits et al.

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DC's 11th Street Bridge Park project

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2017 -- " Downtown Edmonton cultural facilities development as an example of "Transformational Projects Action Planning" ," 2018. It's next to a freeway.

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Big omission in blog series on advance hospital/health and wellness planning, public health planning: addiction services

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It also discusses how traditional 12-step and similar programs don't work for a lot of people, and prescription drug support that can reduce cravings often isn't available. =

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Developing and Implementing Property Remediation Strategies in Urban and Rural Communities in the Lehigh Valley: A Case Study of Bethlehem and Northampton County, Pennsylvania

Center for Community Progress

Reinvestment Fund conducted Market Value Analyses for the City of Bethlehem (2018) and Northampton County (2019) to support data-driven blight prevention and remediation plans. The plan for Bethlehem, which straddles both Northampton and Lehigh Counties, won the 2018 Lehigh Valley Award for Plan or Policy.