Outputs

Yu, Li and Wei Xu. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. 2022; 54(3): 508-532. doi:10.1177/0308518X211061400

Haugen, Stacey, Lars Hallstrom, Payton Grant, Justine Cha, and Patricia MacQuarrie. Journal of Rural and Community Development 16, no. 2 (2021).

Reid-Musson, E., MacEachen, E., Beckie, M., & Hallström, L. (2022). Agriculture and Human Values. doi.org/10.1007/s10460-022-10302-9

Haugen, Stacey, Lars Hallstrom, Payton Grant, Justine Cha, and Patricia MacQuarrie

Dr. Lars Hallstrom, Stacey Haugen, Payton Grant

Presented at Canadian Rural Revitalization Conference (CRRF) May 25 - May 27, 2022

Abstract- Automated technologies, increased digitalization, and international events, such as COVID-19, are putting pressure on national and local economies to adapt or face rising unemployment and economic downturn. Rural communities are particularly impacted by these pressures as their economies are often built around a common industry, and the lack of access to training opportunities and reliable broadband create significant barriers.

Hallstrom, Lars K., Stacey Haugen (Alberta chapter)

Pascal L. Ghazalian, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Lethbridge

Adebiyi G. Boco, Lars K. Hallstrom, Samuel M. Ofori Dei, Ogochukwu K. Onyeso, Eileen Sowunmi, Lisa-Marie Swanepoel, Brie Wilson,

Principal investigator Adebiyi Boco, PhD – Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and
Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy, University of Lethbridge

Adebiyi G. Boco, PhD.

In September 2023, the Alberta government released the LifeWorks report detailing the possibility of a withdrawal from the Canada Pension Plan. Since then, a number of questions have been raised about the content of the original report, the implications of adoption, the process for decision-making, and both the politics and optics of the proposal. As the province rolls out telephone town halls on this report and potential referendum, the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy hosted an online panel on the report, the implications, the politics, and the realities of the possible change to Alberta's (and Canada's) pension system. Featuring Dr. Jared Wesley, Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta; Dr. Trevor Tombe, Professor of Economics at the University of Calgary; and Dr. Trevor Harrison, recently retired Professor of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge. The panel was moderated by Dr. Lars Hallstrom, Director of the Prentice Institute.