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on issues facing rural and northern Ontario.

A special issue of “Focus on Rural Ontario” entitled COVID-19 Impact on Rural Employment: Ontario in the Canadian context up to July 2020 highlights the impact on rural Ontario with a comparison to the impact on rural employment in other provinces.

In July, the Ontario rural employment gap was less than the COVID-19 impact in urban areas (-2.7% and -7.6%, respectively). The rural gap of -2.7% is less than one-third the Canada-level gap of -8.3% and much less than the rural gap in Alberta (-15.2%) and in rural Quebec (-14.5%). 

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The Rural Ontario Institute commissioned a report on rural wellbeing to help small towns and rural regions find relevant and timely data for their jurisdictions.This report paints the backdrop for those seeking to understand how their community is doing relative to Ontario as a whole.