Gary Stanford and ASF Drop Zone

demographic shift: This is a catch-all ASF view; only displays when an unsupported article type is put in an ASF drop zone Gary Stanford, 59, on his farm in southern Alberta on Nov. 7, 2015. for The Globe and MailTHE BOOMER SHIFTThe Globe boomer series: Catch up on all the stories THE BOOMER SHIFTThe massive demographic shift that is reshaping Canada The pretty medieval town that clings to the slopes of Mount San Paolino, about 70 kilometres southeast of the Sicilian capital Palermo, had a population of 5,000 as late as the 1970s, according to Globe and Mail. Today, there might be 1,500 left, a figure that would theoretically go to zero in a decade or two as deaths greatly outnumber births and jobs vanish, forcing the few young people to flee to the big Italian and northern European cities. Is Canada ready for the boom For more, on Twitter at #Globe Boomers Sutera is not letting a good crisis go to waste. Sutera found a solution of sorts that would take the twin difficulties hammering Sicily – rapid depopulation and the mass influx of refugees – and turn them into an opportunity. It gave them free houses too – more than half the town was empty. It did so by offering free houses to European visitors who fancied holiday homes in Sicily and accepted about 50 migrants from Somalia, Nigeria and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.