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Tuesday February 16th, 2010
9:00 am Pacific Time (12:00 pm Eastern time)

SPEAKERS:

In the context of the 10th IFSAM World Conference from  July 8 to 10, 2010, in Paris
 
Call for Papers (click here for more details)

Feb 2, 2010, Thestar.com
by Stuart Laidlaw
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Most businesses do all they can to keep good employees for as long as possible. But at the Phoenix Print Shop, they can't get them out the door fast enough.

"We work closely with most of them to find work elsewhere," says Andrew Macdonald, general manager of Eva's Phoenix youth shelter.

January 26, 2010- rabble.ca
By Janet Conway

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18 January 2010, Ottawa

A 'Call for Participation' was launched today for Women's Worlds 2011, a global feminist conference being held in Ottawa-Gatineau in July of 2011. (http://www.womensworlds.ca/call-participation)

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) is expected to announce in early February that Canada's co-operative sector, in partnership with four Canadian universities, has been awarded funding of $1 million over five years  to conduct research on the social, economic and environmental impact of co-operatives.

United We Can, a Vancouver, B.C., nonprofit, helps homeless and low-income people to be productive, while cleaning up destitute neighborhoods and promoting recycling.

By Kristi Heim- Seattle Times business reporter

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By: Eric Leviten-Reid
http://tamarackcommunity.ca/index.php#res3

Momentum continues to build across Canada around provincial poverty reduction strategies and Atlantic Canada is leading the way.

• Interview with Johanne Lavoie by Rachelle McElroy, CCEDNet Knowledge Mobilization Specialist.

From the Globe and Mail.
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By some measures, the artisans of the Haitian village of Croix-des-Bouquets are hugely successful: Their works are in galleries around the world, and the United Nations' cultural agency has recognized them with a UNESCO Award of Excellence. But by the only measure that seems to matter in a capitalist system, they are abject failures, for they can barely scrape out a living.