Sommet de l'économie sociale et solidaire - Une idée folle qui rapporte gros

Sommet de l'économie sociale et solidaire - Des dizaines de millions pour le développement de l'économie sociale et solidaire
"Personne au Québec ne peut plus nier la contribution importante de l'économie sociale pour le développement de nos communautés" a soutenu en substance Monsieur Jean Charest, premier ministre du Québec, à l'occasion du Sommet de l'économie sociale et solidaire.

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'

L’économie sociale passe en mode développement
Maintenant qu’elle repose sur des bases plus solides, l’économie sociale peut espérer prendre de l’expansion à Laval.

Le 6 Novembre 2006

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.”

Premier showcase for B.C. artisans

Tortillas dished up with heart and soul: Co-op founded 30 years ago, Maria, 84, starts work at 2 a.m.
Morning comes early for Maria, a worker at the Tortilleria. The 84-year-old woman is always the first to arrive. Her shift begins at 2 a.m., when she pulls out bowls of flour and water and starts to make the first of hundreds of tortillas that will be served in the co-op that day.

Importance of rural Alberta recognized with new fund
A new fund is set to invest $100 million in rural Alberta over a three-year period in the hopes of stimulating growth and development. The Rural Alberta Development Fund announced it was open for business on Monday, Oct. 23, and is now accepting applications for community led projects that promote growth, prosperity and quality of life in rural areas of the province.