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Telelearning Session 18: The Role of the Social Economy in Meeting Diverse Housing Needs

THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THIS SUCCESSFUL TELE-LEARNING SESSION!

For the podcast of the complete session, please click here. (Mp3 file, 28.1 MB, 1 hour, 1 min)

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

SPEAKERS:

Appel à Communications : Symposium – Economie Sociale et Management

Dans le cadre du « 10th IFSAM World Conference » 8 - 10 juillet 2010, à Paris

Symposium « Economie Sociale et Management »

Appel à Communications

Febraury 2, 2010 - Where purpose trumps profit

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.

13 Janvier 2010- Bon Coeur et Compagnie

Source Plantagenet, Ontario - 13 janvier 2010 : Le 6 janvier dernier,
RDI dévoilait sa nouvelle série de documentaires inédits :
«Nouvelles tendances, nouveaux regards : 109 »,
animée par Mireille Deyglun. « Branché sur les grands courants
sociaux et culturels de notre temps, la série 109 est à l’affût des plus
récents phénomènes qui transforment le monde dans lequel nous
vivons. » extrait du communiqué du 6 janvier 2010.
Le 6 février prochain – levons le voile sur une « économie à visage humain »!

January 26, 2010- The World Social Forum: Canadian contexts and questions

January 26, 2010- rabble.ca
By Janet Conway

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Global feminist conference launches 'Call for participation'

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)

$1 million SSHRC grant awarded for research on co-operatives

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.

January 18, 2010- Throwaways recycle lives at B.C. nonprofit

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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