While attending the Summit for a People-Centred Economy earlier this summer, we met Ray Wanuch – executive director of the Council for the advancement of Native Development Officers. We asked for his perspective on the crisis and its impact on Canada’s Aboriginal commmunites.
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July 23rd 2010 No Comments
July 23rd 2010 No Comments
Saint-Georges-de-Beauce – un an plus tard…
… ou presque. Le photographe Renaud Philippe s’était rendu rencontrer Daniel à St-Georges-de-Beauce au mois d’août 2009. Ce dernier avait eu le malheur de perdre deux emplois à temps plein, bien payés de surcroît, en l’espace de quelques jours. Merci, crise économique !
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July 22nd 2010 No Comments
Scoop! US Treasury invests in hotel biz
The US Treasury has increasingly been in the news over the last 2-3 years – largely because of the economic downturn and the lead role that its boss played in the talking-tough-with-banks drama of 2008-2009. So we’re used to seeing Mr. Geithner in the media, both American and Canadian.
What we’re less used to is [...]
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July 14th 2010 No Comments
Winds of Recovery on Great Lakes
While the winds of recovery are blowing some life back into Great Lakes shipping, industry insiders are still cautious about the long-term forecast.
Last summer Dominic Morissette, one of the GDP Project’s resident photographers, travelled to the shores of Lake Ontario. His mission: to gauge the recession’s impact on the vital shipping arteries of the continent’s [...]
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July 5th 2010 No Comments
Farmers unite to save Battle River Railway
With all the talk of Recession in the air, it hasn’t been easy for organizations that depend on community fundraising for their survival. All the more impressive then that a group of western grain farmers – the people behind the Battle River Railway New Generation Co-op (BRR)— have managed to raise about $3.5 million from their [...]
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June 22nd 2010 No Comments
Silver lining? The Crisis & Canadian media
Freelance journalists like the one featured in By-line: Charmaine are facing a complicated set of challenges right now. Traditional media has been scrambling to make do with falling ad revenues – while haemorrhaging readers and audiences to competing internet news-sources. Indeed CanWest – one of the country’s biggest media players – has gone down in [...]
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June 11th 2010 1 Comment
Raj Patel: The GDP Project Interview
“As we confront the crisis in the worldview of orthodox economics, Raj Patel offers us a whole new way to think about price and value.†-Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma.
Activist and academic, Raj Patel is the author of The Value of Nothing, which offers invigorating new insight into the Great Recession and [...]
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June 4th 2010 No Comments
Soccer World Cup Build-Up on GDP
The biggest sports event in the world starts in a couple of days. In fact, the GDP Project is pursuing its documentation of Canadians at a time when a second great international sport happening takes centre-stage. We’ve been able to follow the Vancouver Olympic Games (without documenting them, rest assured). It’s now time to turn [...]
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May 19th 2010 No Comments
Mondragon: The Basque Model
Some members of the GDP team are heading off to Ottawa on May 30 to take part in the 2010 National Summit on a People-Centred Economy. Organized by the Canadian Community Economic Development Network, the event aims to unite folks from the coop movement with representatives from the world of social entrepreneurship – with a [...]
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May 18th 2010 No Comments
Becoming a diva
Ten. We’re at ten. Ten episodes of the Debt Divas in almost 7 months. That’s the time it took Matt Palmer, our local filmmaker to gather enough material for us to understand what it means to carry the burden of debt. Far removed from theory, the documentary installments have provided us with a unique chance [...]
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