Themes: Local Economy

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…

Working together with Flourish Community Development Co-op, Co-operative Enterprise Council of New Brunswick, CDR-Acadie, and a range of other national and local stakeholders working on business succession models, CCEDNet has completed an action research project…

An Analysis Of Public Sector Institutional Spending In Atlantic Canada An institution’s possible role as an economic engine for their local economies has been validated by current success stories in…

While municipal planning efforts have focused on the strategic growth of urban centres, avenues, and transit corridors, there has been a concurrent concentration of poverty in Toronto’s inner suburbs marked by race and gender….

Conseil de la coopération de l’Ontario (CCO) created this contribution to the social finance ecosystem, in partnership with CCEDNet. They have surveyed the status and prospects of participatory community investment…

SSE organizations are more open to exchange between the production system and the local community due to their participatory governance structures and their attention toward social integration – in short,…

COVID-19 has disproportionately affected low-income neighbourhoods and essential workers. Vulnerable neighbourhoods are densely populated, are comprised of crowded housing arrangements, and bursting bus routes. Essential work is not the type…

The opening Keynote panel at the Assembly features a conversation of food sovereignty and a Just Transition in our pandemic times with speakers from across the continent. We are honoured…

Watch a public roundtable with Sean Jacobs, Associate Professor of International Affairs, on inequities and distortions in the study of global economics with three young economists who study global economics…

In this final session of the Just Transition Research Collaborative webinar series, the focus is on power and politics and unpack what has happened to Just Transitions in the five…

THIS REPORT is about the value of Indigenous lands. Picking up from Land Back, the first Red Paper by Yellowhead about the project of land reclamation, Cash Back looks at how…

Accelerate action to revamp production and consumption patterns: the circular economy, cooperatives and the social and solidarity economy In his report to the 59th Commission for Social Development on the…