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 The $5,000 award, given to an unpublished writer under age 35 for a sample of poetry, was presented Wednesday evening in Toronto.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

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
 

Published on Thu Oct 15, 2009 – thestar.com

What is most disturbing about Canada's food system is not the degraded quality, the impact on health, the devastation of natural resources from industrial fishing and farming, the impoverishment of food producers, the inequitable access that leaves so many Canadians undernourished, or even the safety scares that have us checking for recalls along with prices.

GUELPH, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Oct. 8, 2009) - Professor Jack Quarter has helped keep a spotlight on co-operatives and credit unions in education for more than 25 years.



Ontario co-operators will thank him at the Ontario Co-operative Association (On Co-op) 11th Annual Co-operative Spirit Recognition Awards at the Co-op Conference and Gala to be held Oct. 14 at Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, ON. He will receive the Outstanding Contribution to the Ontario Co-operative Association Award.