Beaver Creek Housing Cooperative

Resource sector booms, but concerns linger
Vancouver Sun
BC's first nations seek to build stronger trade ties with China through a new cooperative policy to help ensure aboriginal interests in resource development are recognized as business looks to ramp up exports to Asia. "Our interests simply cannot be ...

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London's best honoured at New Year's levee
London Community News
Playford believes in affordable housing and his life's work and his community involvement speaks volumes about his commitment to helping people. Playford has been assisting non-profit and co-op housing projects since 1977 in his role at CMHC and then ...

Year in Review: Resource sector booms, but concerns linger
Vancouver Sun
BC's first nations seek to build stronger trade ties with China through a new cooperative policy to help ensure aboriginal interests in resource development are recognized as business looks to ramp up exports to Asia. “Our interests simply cannot be ...

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Fontana salutes eight for 2012
London Free Press
She's written multiple publications, including The Story behind the Gibbons Lodge, the official residence of the presidents of the University of Western Ontario. HOUSING - Greg Playford has helped non-profit and co-op housing projects since 1977. ...

Globe and Mail
Supreme Court rejects Ottawa's bid to establish national securities regulator
The Guardian Charlottetown
The court added that Ottawa can also seek a co-operative approach with the provinces, while recognizing that the day-to-day regulation of securities is essentially provincial. For some industry players, the court left the door sufficiently ajar to let ...
Harper's plans for federation hinge on securities-regulator rulingGlobe and Mail

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Globe and Mail
Supreme Court rejects Ottawa's bid to establish national securities regulator
CanadianBusiness.com
The court added that Ottawa can also seek a co-operative approach with the provinces, while recognizing that the day-to-day regulation of securities is essentially provincial. For some industry players, the court left the door sufficiently ajar to let ...
Harper's plans for federation hinge on securities-regulator rulingGlobe and Mail

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Supreme Court rejects Ottawa's bid to establish national securities regulator
Winnipeg Free Press
The court added that Ottawa can also seek a co-operative approach with the provinces, while recognizing that the day-to-day regulation of securities is essentially provincial. For some industry players, the court left the door sufficiently ajar to let ...

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Globe and Mail
Harper's plans for federation hinge on securities-regulator ruling
Globe and Mail
But regardless of where French Canada's brain is at, moving toward a single, co-operative, national set of rules and qualifications for all businesses and workers could be a great advance for Canada and an important addition to the federal government's ...
Supreme Court rejects bid to establish national securities regulatorDaily Business Buzz - New Brunswick

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A look back on the year that was in the North Grenville area
EMC Kemptville
North Grenville can say something that most municipalities across Ontario can't: their budget for 2011 has been approved and it's only mid-January. In a vote during Monday evening's regular council meeting, council unanimously passed the budget, ...

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Red Pepper
Toronto tales
Red Pepper
Come As You Are (701 Queen Street West) is an awesome co-operative sex store that is worker owned and operated, offering a wide range of sex toys, tips and literature as well as workshops on everything from rope bondage to female ejaculation. ...

Occupying housing from the Pope Squat to Occupy Toronto
The Media Co-op
And very soon the housing co-op negotiated behind our backs." A few years after the squat was evicted, one of the buildings was torn down by the city but the planned housing project that was negotiated by the neighbouring co-operative never happened. ...

U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Colorado (Dec. 20)
Targeted News Service (subscription)
Comprises projection of laser beams through turbulent medium having non-cooperative target using combination of adaptive optical system and short temporal coherence length laser source forming controllable focused laser target beacon. ...

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Occupying housing from the Pope Squat to Occupy Toronto
rabble.ca
And very soon the housing co-op negotiated behind our backs." A few years after the squat was evicted, one of the buildings was torn down by the city but the planned housing project that was negotiated by the neighbouring co-operative never happened. ...

Inter Press Service
Forging Bond Will Be Test for Co-ops and Occupy Movement
Inter Press Service
Virtually every sector of the Canadian economy dots the co-op landscape, including agriculture, retail, housing and healthcare, and at least 10 million people (out of a population of 34 million) are members of some form of cooperative, according to the ...

OCAP and the origins of Occupy Toronto
rabble.ca
Harris slashed all plans for affordable housing; eliminated building plans for 17000 co-op housing units; cruelly cut 21.6 per cent of poor people's monthly welfare cheques; repealed the Advocacy Act abolishing the Advocacy Commission (a rights ...

Wayne County Community Endowment to award $78785 at Dec. 14 reception
Wayne Post
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Wayne County will receive $5000 to support Project Outreach Rec program in providing hands-on educational learning in natural resources, science, and agriculture recreation centers in the area. ...

CTV.ca
Atleo stands with Attawapiskat chief in housing crisis
CTV.ca
In a speech at the annual meeting of chiefs in Ottawa Tuesday, Shawn Atleo said he stands beside the remote northern Ontario community's battle to force the federal government to deal with a housing shortage, calling it a "national disgrace. ...

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Social financing will reduce our dependence on banks
Waterloo Record
Since Alphonse Desjardins founded Canada's first credit union over 110 years ago, these customer-owned co-operative financial service providers have provided credit and banking services that have reinvested the savings of many Canadians into the ...

Desjardins establishes new investment fund to support development of ...
Canada NewsWire (press release)
... Desjardins Group is the leading cooperative financial group in Canada and the sixth largest in the world, with assets of over $190 billion. Drawing on the strength of its caisse network in Quebec and Ontario and its subsidiaries across Canada, ...

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CTV.ca
Feds to put Attawapiskat under third-party management
CTV.ca
(Adrian Wyld / THE CANADIAN PRESS) This image taken from video shot by NDP MP Charlie Angus shows a house where people are living with no electricity or plumbing on the Attawapiskat reserve in Northern Ontario. NDP interim leader Nycole Turmel speaks ...

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