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Co-ops need an 8th principle
Co-ops need an 8th principle
By Tony Patterson
Let me give you a little background. I was born before the last world war, in 1938. I have known about co-ops since I was a youngster. Where I went to school, a Catholic college in Montreal, Moses Coady at St. FX was the prophet and the Antigonish Movement was gospel. I knew about it but I didn’t join, went in another direction.
Then by circumstance that would take too long to…
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Summit suicide. Assisted.
It was a very good year for co-ops.
In New York the United Nations declared the International Year Of Cooperatives. When the UN declares a year for your cause you know you’ve arrived.
In Belgium the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) published a Blueprint For A Co-operative Decade. It challenged the billion co-op members around the world to build the fastest growing sector of the global…
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Who’s North? (This post, originally published in High North News, was inspired by the presence in the Arctic of significant numbers of…
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Wasting Time At Government’s Take-Out Window
Wasting Time At Government’s Take-Out Window
The question posed in the previous post (Co-op Apex Tries Second Hail Mary Pass) was how Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada (CMC) has come to believe that Ottawa would or should provide $50 million, or any millions, to help build co-op businesses? At the most charitable, it’s a simple and direct request, but some would say unsophisticated. Naïve. Could this be because CMC put its in-house lobbyist…
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Co-op Apex Tries Second Hail Mary Pass
Co-op Apex Tries Second Hail Mary Pass
It’s not exactly a secret that Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada (CMC) has petitioned the federal government for a grant of $50 million. Not a secret but not widely publicized, either. CMC directors knew of it, a few others, but not altogether easy to defend and a bit embarrassing actually. It was a pre-budget submission e-mailed to Finance Minister Bill Morneau on January 18, 2016. The same…
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Co-op Apex Tries Second Hail Mary Pass
Co-op Apex Tries Second Hail Mary Pass
It’s not exactly a secret that Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada (CMC) has petitioned the federal government for a grant of $50 million. Not a secret but not widely publicized, either. CMC directors knew of it, a few others, but not altogether easy to defend and a bit embarrassing actually. It was a pre-budget submission e-mailed to Finance Minister Bill Morneau on January 18, 2016. The same…
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Honourable member for cooperatives waits his chance UPDATE Dec. 2, 2015: Originally posted in July 2014, this description of the good work on behalf of co-ops by Mauril is reposted as tragic news of his ALS diagnosis becomes known, just six weeks after he was re-elected as MP for Ottawa Vanier.
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MP appointments great news for co-ops
MP appointments great news for co-ops
Parliamentary Secretaries are Members of Parliament (MPs) who are appointed to assist a Minister. They play a key role on the files to which they are assigned. 35 Parliament Secretaries were announced earlier this week, and include two champions of co-op housing who have been assigned key roles:
Toronto MP Adam Vaughan (seen holding the key) is one of the Parliamentary Secretaries appointed to…
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Leroux’s dues paid to succeed Green at ICA There are three things maybe you don’t know about the strongest bank in the west. It’s Canadian.
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Business case for investment fund released
Business case for investment fund released
The Canadian Co-operative Investment Fund (CCIF) has released its business case.
CCIF is the showcase venture capital initiative of Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada (CMC). The fund was launched three years back with a plan to gather $20 million of investment to support the growth of co-ops in Canada. This didn’t seem much of a stretch. The Canadian cooperative sector is a pretty big space.…
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Cannabis legalization is unique co-opportunity
Cannabis legalization is unique co-opportunity
By Jim Hynes and Tony Patterson
Jim Hynes ([email protected]) is a writer, artist and consultant in Toronto; Tony Patterson ([email protected]), in Ottawa, is editor and publisher of Co-op Canada Accelerator.
The process of legalizing marijuana in the U.S. has begun, and will likely spread into Canada within this decade, leading federal governments in both countries to revise existing laws.…
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Prince of publishers
Jack McClelland never stopped trolling for material he could publish and he had a marvelously seductive line. “That would make a great book,” he’d say to just about any rational thought. “Your book.”
Who would know better than The Canadian PublisherTM himself?
That’s how he lured Pammy’s great3grandson. Every time Jack talked about “Tony’s book” it moved closer to a work-in-progress and after a…
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Aphoristic snippets
There is no country in the world that is not the mother country of some Canadians.
When you know your people have lived in this special place since the beginning of time it gives you a unique perspective. (Said of the Gwi’chin of Old Crow, the caribou people)
There’s just as much evidence for life after death as there is for no life after death. There’s zero evidence for either.
In the industrial…
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Northern summer: endless days, riotous nature Summer in the North is short and sweet with riotous nature in bloom and joyous people at play through endless days.
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Decade of penny pinching endorsed by new apex of co-ops “Out with the old, in with the same old” Is the brave declaration of the brand new…
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Quebec Summit needs to talk the toke
Quebec Summit needs to talk the toke
We must talk about cannabis (marijuana is its Mexican name) at the International Summit of Co-operatives 2014 in Quebec City this October.
Because health care is one of five major themes under discussion during this five day extravaganza for business leaders of the movement;
Because the medical cannabis regime is undergoing significant change in Canada;
Because a Member of Parliament is calling…
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Canadian co-ops elevate casual to a new level In Canada it takes a little longer. Enough has been said about taking more than a century to bring together French and English players in the movement, finally accomplished this year (April 1, 2014).
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