Below is a selection of the latest online articles from the English language press that refer to the "social economy", "co-operatives", "aboriginal development" and related key words.

Forestry Firms Burning Jobs
Why they'd rather torch timber than feed mills.
Forests Minister Rich Coleman expresses alarm at the number of jobs that are going up in smoke in British Columbia as mountains of good wood are set ablaze on logging sites across the province.

CCA CALLS FOR SOCIAL ECONOMY INITIATIVE FOR ALL OF CANADA

Good For Quebec, What About The Rest Of Canada
NDP Works to Rescue Social Economy Initiative from Conservative Cuts. The little understood social economy, flourishing in Quebec and Europe with its community-based co-operatives, credit unions and grassroots businesses, came under Parliament scrutiny Tuesday as the NDP works to reverse a $39-million cut to its programs.

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Challenges for Venezuela's Revolution
Michael Lebowitz, professor emeritus of the department of economics at Simon Fraser University, is a director of the Centro Internacional Miranda (CIM) in Caracas, and author of the newly published book Build it Now: Socialism for the Twenty-First Century. He was interviewed by Coral Wynter and Jim McIlroy for the Australian newspaper Green Left Weekly.

Wolfville co-op offers easy terms
A Wolfville co-operative lends a virtually unknown foreign business US$40,000. The company has seven years to pay it back at seven per cent interest per year, not to mention a year's grace. If it can't pay, the co-op will gladly accept tea bags. Members aren't crazy, just committed to their philosophies as a fair-trade dealer.

Students hop on 'bicycle bursaries'

Finding a solution
Whether you see it or not, homelessness is a problem in Merritt. Patrick Lindsay, general manager of the Community Futures Development Corporation in Merritt, believes they should be using their social economy program to address this issue. Last week he proposed this to the board and they agreed. “They concurred that our mandate would fit into working on a problem like this,” he explains. “Homelessness is a problem. You can see it everywhere if you look.”

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