Technology to improve senior life
Two Markham organizations are part of a new program to improve the lives of seniors and the disabled. The Intelligent Computational Assistive Science and Technology network, launched earlier this month at York University, is a Canadawide initiative sponsored by Precarn Incorporated, a non-profit company in York and Ottawa that supports the development of commercially viable technologies.

Bethune housing co-op faces brighter future
The situation at the leaking Norman Bethune Housing Cooperative in North Burnaby is looking brighter after city council agreed to consider a rezoning application to allow the housing project to be rebuilt. The co-op, at 8750 Centaurus Circle, was built in 1977 and has 24 units of subsidized housing for low and moderate income families.

Wind turbine operating in Digby County
Digby County has its first independently owned commercial wind turbine at Mount Pleasant. The turbine has started generating electricity and selling energy to Nova Scotia Power under a long-term contract, Bay Wind Field Inc. said Tuesday. The energy generated from the turbine is expected to provide enough power for about 300 to 350 homes and will largely be consumed within areas around the installation of the turbine.

Co-op la Maison Verte is dreaming of a green Christmas
For Bing Crosby, a white Christmas was all he could dream about, but for Jason Hughes, the holidays have a different hue. Hughes, the general co-ordinator of Co-op la Maison Verte, would like to encourage people to think about the holidays in a different light. Think green! “We are trying get people to think about other ways to approach the holidays,” said Hughes.

Make the world a better place and make money at the same time with Citizens Bank of Canada's Shared World Term Deposit
Nayima Umaru, a widowed mother of seven in Uganda, borrowed the equivalent of Cdn $65 to start a roadside food stall which, after eight years, grew into a small restaurant and catering business employing eight people.

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.

All of us at the Canadian Social Economy Hub would like to thank everyone who participated to help make our first french telelearning session a success! Special thanks to Luc Thériault and Monique Beaudoin for their wonderful presentations and discussion!

Welcome to the third bulletin of the Canadian Social Economy Hub (CSEHub) for the National Research Program on the Social Economy (funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council). Over the next five years, the CSEHub will be sending out bulletins on a regular basis to provide updates on the work of the CSEHub and its Nodes.

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