The Creative Communities Blog is pleased to present a guest blog by Dan Taylor, Economic Development Officer, Prince Edward County.

Betsy Donald, an Associate Professor of Geography at Queen’s University, is well known for her work on the Creative/Food Economy. One of the challenges or problems with the Creative Economy label is it is often misunderstood or worse seen as either controversial or negative.

On February 16th, Dr. Kevin Stolarick, Research Director at the Martin Prosperity Institute, visited the Monieson Centre to discuss issues and challenges with the rural Creativity Economy (CE).  My own research has given me the opportunity to study the CE in smaller cities in Northern Ontario.