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This op-ed was originally published in The Hill Times, April 13, 2015 The recent media coverage of the proposed layoffs of dozens of developmentally disabled people in Ottawa due to…
Provincial, territorial and local government spending across Canada is in excess of $400 billion annually. And even at these current levels, budgets continue to be squeezed, cut and restricted. Meanwhile social challenges…
Public sector procurement objectives are quite predictable and intuitive – find savings for other departments to be able to meet their budgets. Why do municipalities, as an example, have a…
Canada’s Social Impact Organizations Celebrated with Biggest Prize Package Ever Over $200,000 in Prizes Available! Created by the Trico Charitable Foundation in 2011, the biennial Social EnterPrize Awards celebrate Canadian…
Quebec’s Minister of Finance, Carlos Leitão, presented the 2015-16 budget on March 26th. For the Chantier de l’économie sociale, a Canadian CED Network partner, the budget announced some very interesting…
Federated Co-op is launching a new funding program to help protect, beautify and improve the spaces that help communities thrive. Co-op Community Spaces will donate up to $1 million annually…
During the 1940s, we were promoting campaigns for the widespread use of chemical pesticides with jingles like “DDT is good for me!” and videos showing people literally eating DDT by…
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released today their annual Alternative Federal Budget (AFB). The budget includes many recommendations for investments related to community economic development initiatives, including: a national…
Global Vision for a Social Solidarity Economy: Convergences and Differences in Concepts, Definitions and Frameworks The Global Vision for a Social Solidarity Economy: Convergences and Differences in Concepts, Definitions and…
For Women Transforming Cities, the present-day economic reality is one of increasing inequality that has disparate outcomes for marginalized communities. This is to say that economic inequality tends to fall…
It’s not often that Spark matches blow up Twitter, but a recent match between Soup Bee, a Winnipeg social enterprise that sells soups made with local ingredients by individuals facing…
I’m really interested in the possibilities that arise from two realities: There are multiple benefits of providing health care to people where they live. In order to keep people and…