Category: Food & Water Security
Announcement, CCEDNet
The second annual Sustainable Finance Forum at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa is shaping up to be twice the size and even more impactful than last year’s. Be one of…
This post originally appeared on Buy Social Canada’s blog. Social enterprises across Canada tackle complex social challenges while operating successful businesses and reinvesting profits into community, a new report from…
Member Story
For CCEDNet’s spring 2023 member communique, our communications coordinator, Anita Lambton, interviewed Derek Bassey. Derek is finance coordinator at Fireweed Food Co-op in Winnipeg Treaty 1 territory, and is also…
Announcement, CCEDNet
The need for socially just and environmentally sustainable communities are now at the forefront of social movements the world over due to the ongoing climate crisis. To support critical systemic…
Originally published in The Hill Times, April 1, 2021 The numbers are devastating. Almost one in seven Canadians (14.6 per cent) reported they live in a household where they’ve experienced food…
The federal government’s role as backstop during the COVID-19 pandemic doesn’t end with the first wave of reopening—Canada needs to step up with more investments to ensure a just, equitable…
Strategists are following the money to schools, corporate cafeterias, and hospitals in hopes of rebuilding local economies and bringing healthy food access—literally in through the back door. The next time…
Is There Hope for Local Living Economy? from Axiom News on Vimeo. Like many Transition, and other changemaking initiatives around the world, Transition Town Peterborough (TTP) has been giving some serious…
Last week CCEDNet Manitoba provided the City of Winnipeg with their Budget 2018 submission. This submission reflects CCEDNet Manitoba’s over 100 members’ policy priorities. The central recommendation is a call for…
Building on a 2015 Winnipeg Public Service recommendation to explore opportunities for improving food production and security in Winnipeg, Food Matters Manitoba collaborated with community organizations, local businesses, public health…
A new construction project in urban East Baltimore aims to use federal funding to achieve a number of progressive goals. Volunteers of America Chesapeake has leased space to Arcturus Growthstar Technologies, which received…
The Northern Manitoba Food, Culture & Community (NMFCCC) is a group of 14 organizations and many northern Manitoba people. Why the group exists: To partner with people in northern Manitoba to…