Fondaction invests $1.5 million in Ranaz - Vote of confidence from a prime strategic financial partner
Ranaz Corporation ("Ranaz") (TSX-V: RNZ), a company specialized in the manufacturing and marketing of protein and dietary supplements, reports that it has issued today a $1.5 million unsecured convertible debenture to Fondaction, le Fonds de développement de la Confédération des syndicats nationaux pour la coopération et l'emploi ("Fondaction").

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The Social Economy Centre (OISE/UT) Presents

The Conversion of Alexandra Park Public Housing into Atkinson Housing Co-Operative

Tom Clement
Executive Director, Co-Operative Housing Federation of Toronto
Jorge Sousa
Assistant Professor, University of Alberta

Wednesday, September 24, 2008
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the Universit

Resources and Challenges of Charitable Human Service Organizations in New Brunswick By Luc Thériault, Carmen Gill, Heather McTiernan, & Scott Bell In Canada, the parameters of service provision between the nonprofit sector and the state have shifted with the emergence of the post welfare era. While some recent national-level studies have contributed to our knowledge of this largely under-researched sector, less is known about these organizations at the regional and provincial levels.

The Centre for the Study of Co-operatives is proud to announce to its stakeholders in the co-operative community, its management board, and associated fellows, scholars, and staff that our director, Lou Hammond Ketilson, is this year’s winner of the Co-op Merit Award for Exemplary Contributions to Co-operative Studies.

Giving people SEED of hope
Pam Rubachuk planted a seed this year she hopes will sprout into a post-secondary graduate in a couple of decades. The single mom running a day care out of her home happened upon a pamphlet for SEED Winnipeg, a non-profit community economic development agency. Not only has it changed her life, it has also helped her lay some financial groundwork for her 21-month-old son, Lucas.

Farmers' market awaits its rainmakers
Citizens have plopped down almost three-quarters of a million dollars of their retirement money to invest in a new harbour-side home for the Halifax Farmers' Market, bringing the structure one step closer to realization. But while organizers are optimistic, some of the government funds needed to move forward with the project remain unsecured and each delay sees staggering increases in construction costs.

• Interview with Darryl Reed by Annie McKitrick
  (MP3 file, 12:38 mins, 5.8 MB)

Please click on the above link to listen to the interview.

Darryl Reed is Associate Professor in the Division of Social Science at York Univers

More and more companies faced with globalization challenges
As a community economic development agency, our first role is to provide the necessary leadership to allow our region to deal adequately with the many challenges and opportunities it faces. During the last fiscal year, many companies in our region have been confronted with the challenges of globalization.

The Co-op Alternative: 'Deconstructing Dinner' looks at community farming in BC
It's been a topic of discussion throughout many broadcasts of Deconstructing Dinner: while there is clearly a widespread interest in supporting more localized food systems, the bigger picture of how such systems can be physically, economically and politically sustained is a far more complicated and serious matter.

Social Economy in the co-construction of public policy By Yves Vaillancourt In this paper, we will be talking a great deal about the democratization of public policy in Canada. But we will be doing so with the intent of establishing bridges to the theme of democratization of public policy in Latin America.