Michael Dudley

<p>Small towns and rural areas hit by economic downturns have seen many of their young people enlist for lack of other opportunities -- and as a result they represent almost half of U.S. war fatalities in Iraq and Afghanistan.</p>

<p>An internal government report questions why the Canadian federal government held back more than $70 million dollars from homelessness programs.</p>

<p>A new report from a Denver task force on foreclosures reveals that several neighborhoods in the city are suffering from high foreclosure rates.</p>

<p>As Canada's political landscape has changed over the past few years, so too has the federal approach to Canada's cities.</p>

<p>Local governments and citizens are finding that tackling community problems requires new forms of deliberative democracy.</p>