Category: What’s New
What are the benefits of community economic development and how can it become more mainstream? Localise West Midlands (UK) has been researching how localised and community economic development can be…
The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry, announced in April that the Government of Canada has completed the transfer of responsibility for co-operatives to Industry Canada from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada,…
Is there enough for all? The Calgary Poverty Reduction Initiative (CPRI) believes that there is. In a prosperous and growing city like Calgary, this report asserts that together, Calgarians have…
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada has released its report Harnessing the Power of Social Finance in response to the national call for concepts it undertook in late 2012. This…
The Centre de la francophonie des Amériques organized a meeting in Cap Haitien, from April 30 to May 2. Ethel Côté and Yvon Poirier represented CCEDNet, and Éric Lefebvre was…
Newly launched GROUNDSWELL is an eight-month-long Vancouver-based training institute designed to assist people under the age of 35 in developing the hard and soft skills to build their own sustainable…
On April 26, Global Winnipeg aired a video on CCEDNet member BUILD (Building Urban Industries for Local Development), featuring commentary by CCEDNet’s regional director Brendan Reimer. Using the personal narrative…
ced_dec_logo.png The latest provincial budget, tabled on April 16th, brought surprising new investments in some areas and underwhelming progress in others. Across Manitoba, CED initiatives foster economic revitalization, access to…
CCEDNet Board President Caroline Lachance and Policy Council Chair Norman Greenberg recently sent a letter to the leaders and environment critics of all federal parties in the House of Commons,…
As each year, CCEDNet members were invited to submit nominations for CCEDNet’s Board of directors. This year, there were two seats to be filled. Two eligible nominations were received by…
This past spring I contributed a paper on local development and the social economy in Québec that was published as part of an ebook on international approaches to local development…
fsm_banner.png The 12th edition of the World Social Forum (WSF), held in Tunis from March 26th to 30th, was a true testament of the struggles of social movements and civil…