tuesday, december 15, 2009

Announcing Canada’s first magazine dedicated to social enterprise
We’re excited to announce the launch of SEE Change Magazine in early 2010. With a mission to inform, inspire and educate, SEE Change will be the first publication in the country devoted to social enterprise and entrepreneurship.

Each issue will contain a mix of important news and information about social enterprise and social innovation in Canada, opinions and commentary, expert advice, and engaging features that will get people thinking, talking, moving…and changing.

Smithers, B.C., poet wins emerging writers award
Thursday, April 2, 2009 | 10:42 AM ET
CBC News

Emily McGiffin, a 28-year-old writer from Smithers, B.C., has won the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. The $5,000 award, given to an unpublished writer under age 35 for a sample of poetry, was presented Wednesday evening in Toronto.

January 7, 2010- The Ottawa Citizen

The British government has a new strategy to ensure a sustainable, secure food supply for the next 20 years. Canada's political leaders, by contrast, haven't even begun to talk about this.

This unpreparedness will almost certainly cause unnecessary hardships for Canadian farmers and consumers, sooner than we think. The global crisis in food prices in the second half of the past decade was mitigated somewhat by the global recession, but prices are still high and aren't likely to go down.

Arno Kopecky for The Tyee, thetyee.ca, January 5, 2010

The Social Economy Centre at OISE/University of Toronto has created an informative 2-page document about jobs in the Social Economy. Check it out here!

SooNews Wire for SooNews.ca
Tuesday, December 22, 2009, 1:51PM

www.soonews.ca/viewarticle.php?id=23768

David Thompson, a graduate of the Community Economic and Social Development program at Algoma University, has won a research scholarship from Canadian Social Economy Research Partnerships (CSERP). This scholarship program is intended to promote original research by "emerging leaders" in the Social Economy.

Ottawa, December 18, 2009 - Canada's co-operative sector is celebrating today's decision by the United Nations General Assembly to proclaim 2012 the International Year of Co-operatives.
 
The proclamation of the International Year was included in a resolution entitled "Co-operatives in Social Development", which was adopted by the General Assembly at today's session in New York. The full text of the resolution can be downloaded from http://tinyurl.com/InternationalYear
 

International Conference of Management: Governance, Management and Firm Performance in Social and Solidarity Economy. What specificities ?

Thursday 4th of November and Friday 5th of November 2010.

The ambition of the conference is to federate the works of scholars in management who are interested in social and solidarity economy and to share knowledge with professionals of the sector.

THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THIS SUCCESSFUL TELE-LEARNING SESSION!

For the podcast of the complete session, please click here. (Mp3 file, 29.4 MB, 1 hour, 4 mins)

Friday, January 15th 2010, 9:00 am Pacific Time (12:00 pm Eastern time)

1. What role does the municipal government play in the social economy sector?
2. What are the best practices in municipal support of the social economy sector?