Category: Policy Development & Advocacy
Provide Your Input on the Formation, Role and Governance Structure of a Winnipeg Food Policy Council
On February 20, 2015 Food Matters Manitoba hosted The Future of Food visioning session Over the past few years, CCEDNet-Manitoba has supported Food Matters Manitoba and other community organizations to…
The Saskatchewan budget was delivered on June 1st and with the slowdown in the provincial economy, the government is faced with reduced revenues and difficult choices. Some governments, when faced…
On June 8, Alexandra Mendès, Member of Parliament for Brossard – Saint-Lambert, tabled Bill C-286: An act respecting the establishment of a framework to promote the development of co-operatives in Canada and…
Finance Minister Roger Melanson Applications are being accepted for community economic development corporations and co-operative associations that want to participate in the Small Business Investor Tax Credit program. “As we…
The Financial and Consumer Services Commission of New Brunswick (FCNB) is pleased to present free workshops on the new rules related to Community Economic Development Corporations (CEDC) in collaboration with…
Elections are noisy and cluttered affairs that can make it difficult for some of the most promising, Manitoba-made policy innovations to get the attention they deserve. One of these policies…
Above L to R: Comox Valley MLA Don McRae, Councillors Jesse Ketler & Sean Sullivan, Minister Stilwell, Mayor Baird, Social Procurement Consultant Sandra Hamilton, David LePage, Buy Social Canada Victoria…
Budget 2016 was tabled Tuesday in the House of Commons. As part of pre-budget consultations, CCEDNet and many of our members and partners prepared recommendations that have been posted on…
Elections are a time when advocates take the stage to promote public and political education on the policy we work on all year round. It can be difficult to cut…
The 2016 Alternative Federal Budget (AFB), released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), projects a federal deficit of $29.2 billion for 2016-17 when Liberal platform measures are…
Toronto MP Ahmed Hussen has introduced a private member’s bill that would allow the federal government to require information on the community benefits generated by construction, maintenance or repair contracts…
The Canadian CED Network’s Policy Council submitted a response to the federal government’s invitation for pre-budget submissions for the 2016 Federal Budget, and Executive Director Michael Toye presented it to…
