Brenda Ives, from the Poverty Free Saskatchewan steering committee, was recently interviewed for a CBC article about rural poverty. Ives has been an important contributor to poverty reduction efforts in Tisdale; the community was announced as one of the six test sites for the potential federal poverty reduction strategy.
The experience of poverty in rural communities is different than that of urban communities (which is better known). For example, rural communities tend to lack public transportation and have reduced access to affordable rental housing.
Link to article: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/poverty-tisdale-transportation-housing-2016-1.3748735