Canadian CED Network

Year: 2005

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Discovering Community Power: A Guide to Mobilizing Local Assets and Your Organization’s Capacity

This guide will help any organization strengthen itself by enhancing connections with the community’s assets, strengthen the community by investing in the community’s assets, and strengthen current and future community-based…
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Place-Based Public Policy: Towards a New Urban and Community Agenda for Canada

Recently there has been growing awareness of the importance of cities, large and small, as strategic spaces in the age of globalization. They are the places where today’s major public…
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Thought About Food: A Workbook on Food Security & Influencing Policy

This workbook was developed as part of a series of research projects on food security. As well as using research and experiences drawn from the Nova Scotia Food Security Projects,…
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Profile of Canadian Agricultural Co-operatives (1998-2002)

This report presents and discusses statistics for agricultural co-operatives from 1998 to 2002. The information in this report is obtained from the Canadian Annual Survey of Co-operatives, a voluntary survey…
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Climate Change and the Tourist Economy of Churchill: Perspectives of Local Residents

This research examines how the citizens of Churchill Manitoba perceive climate change. Global warming is a threat not only to the local habitat and wildlife, but threatens the economy and…
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Environment and Economic Development: Co-Managing a National Park While Stimulating Community Development in Churchill (MB)

In 1996, in accordance with the goal to create a national park in each of the 39 natural regions of Canada, Parks Canada established a national park southeast of Churchill…
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Economics for CED Practitioners

This report addresses the lack of theory surrounding CED. One of the difficulties in theorizing about CED is the eclectic nature of its definition. To some, CED covers any economic…
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Is CED an Alternative to the New Economy?: Debates and Theoretical Issues

The purpose of this paper is to examine the various forms CED takes and factors that may affect those, as well as different arguments and perspectives regarding CED practice. Throughout,…
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Annotated Bibliography: Community Economic Development

This document includes bibliographic references with brief summaries and keywords. Articles relate to community development/community economic development in Canada and abroad. Download the Report here
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Identifying Employment Opportunities for Low-income People within the Manitoba Innovation Framework

This research report describes the impending shortage of labour, and especially skilled labour, that is beginning to appear and that is widely anticipated to worsen. It develops a model of…
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The Federal Government and Homelessness: Community Initiative or Dictation from Above?

This study looks at the Supporting Communities Partnership Initiative (SCPI) program as it operated in Winnipeg through the summer of 2003, and analyses how well it lived up to its…
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Government Policy Towards Community Economic Development in Manitoba

This report offers an exploration of the definition of CED and CED initiatives, supported through relevant literature. It also acknowledges the role of government in CED for the past 50…