The Canadian Progressive: A new bilingual national association for co-operatives across Canada

by: Canadian Co-operative Association | Press Release: Delegates to CCA’s Annual Meeting vote in favour of creating a new national organization representing co-ops, credit unions and mutuals. (Photo: Co-operative News) EDMONTON, June 29, 2013 – Delegates from Canada’s two national co-operative associations have voted strongly in favour of creating a single bilingual organization

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Harper’s subversion of co-ops

One of the Harper government’s assaults on progress that I missed at the time, perhaps because the mass media made little of it, was its undermining of co-ops, one of my favourite institutions. Last April it terminated the federal Co-operative Development Initiative and cut funding for the Rural and Co-operatives

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Co-op beats Spanish recession

As one of the PIGS, the four (or six) European countries whose dysfunctional economies are much in the news these days, Spain is perhaps not the place you would expect to find a thriving economic enterprise. But one such enterprise is in fact flourishing, weathering the financial storm quite nicely.

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