Rural Spark

Small towns ask urbanites to stay home

April 20, 2020 Rural Spark Season 1 Episode 50
Rural Spark
Small towns ask urbanites to stay home
Show Notes

With some urban centres in Canada becoming COVID-19 hotspots, rural communities are seeing some city dwellers retreat to small towns. Ashleigh Wheeden, a PhD student in Rural Studies at Guelph, joins us today to help break down why this is happening and the affects it’s having on residents and rural health care.