1:00pm to 2:00pm Eastern Time

Amid rising economic insecurity, persistent racial inequities, and an uncertain future of work, a federal job guarantee is a big idea whose time has come. By ensuring that every person who wants to work has access to a quality job, a job guarantee could eliminate involuntary unemployment and raise the floor on low-wage work while building stronger communities.

To produce equitable outcomes, the policy must be designed with equity in mind. That is why PolicyLink, in partnership with Darrick Hamilton and William Darity Jr., created a set of policy principles to guide the development of a federal job guarantee that delivers maximum benefits, particularly for those left behind in our current economy.

Register for 10 Principles for a Federal Job Guarantee

Join this webinar with job guarantee experts and advocates to learn more about these principles and how to use them to assess and craft policy proposals.

Featured Speakers:

• Dr. Alan Aja, Associate Professor, Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, Brooklyn College
• Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder and CEO, PolicyLink
• Ady Barkan, Director of Local Progress and Director of Fed Up, Center for Popular Democracy
• Dr. William Darity Jr., Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, Duke University
• Dr. Darrick Hamilton, Professor of Economics and Urban Policy, The New School
• Dr. Stephanie Kelton, Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Stony Brook University
• Sarah Treuhaft, Senior Director, PolicyLink (Moderator)

8:30am to 5:00pm
Canadian Mennonite University
500 Shaftesbury Blvd. 

In the rapidly changing world of consumer finance, vulnerable groups are particularly in need of financial empowerment. This course will engage social change theory in order to identify and evaluate responses to challenging consumer finance issues. This course will be valuable for participants engaged in a variety of sectors, including community development, family mediation, and international development. It will explore how consumer finance can cause harm that might have gender, class, or identity dimensions and will be a practical asset for community workers.

Register for Financial Empowerment for Development and Peacebuilding

For more information, go to csop.cmu.ca or e-mail csop at cmu.ca
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Jerry Buckland is Professor of International Development Studies at CMU’s Menno Simons College. His research and teaching areas include research and evaluation methods, financial empowerment, community-based development, and rural and Indigenous Peoples’ development. He has more than twenty years of experience in the field and has written numerous books, articles, and policy reports. He has been active in payday lending regulation debates in Canada.

Other CSOP course topics include violent extremism, peace skills, peacebuilding in Indigenous communities, ecumenical peacebuilding, ethics in a bordered world, trauma healing, and arts-based peacebuilding.

“CSOP is a place where new friendships are formed and where rich conversations about life, work and experience happen. It provides a space for mature learning and global connections.” —Kriz Cruzado, CSOP Participant

Financial Empowerment for Development and Peacebuilding is a course offered through the Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP). The CSOP is an institute of Canadian Mennonite University and runs one-week intensive peacebuilding courses for two weeks in June that are available for professional development, personal interest, or academic credit.

Canad Inns Destination Centre
Club Regent Casino Hotel
1415 Regent Ave. West

Join Four Arrows Region Health Authority Inc. on June 19th, 20th and 21st to share and learn about indigenous cultural food practices and the ceremonies, stories, and traditional languages that honour food.

Register for the Indigenous Food Sovereignty Summit

As the Food Security Coordinator at Four Arrows Regional Health Authority Inc., Byron has seen first-hand the interest and need for Indigenous communities to reconnect with their food systems. Byron considers himself to be connected to Mother Earth and has found a definite need for this knowledge within himself. Indeed, this is how the vision for the Indigenous Food Sovereignty Summit began. First came the questions: What is food? What does it mean to Indigenous people? And how can we move away from thinking of food as merely sustenance?

To answer these questions requires moving away from a food system that is outside of Indigenous people, and broadening the scope of what an Indigenous food system could be. Too often we hear stories of food insecurity, of people going hungry, in Indigenous communities. Those stories are important, but so are the stories of how we are spending time on the land, growing, gathering, hunting, fishing, and trapping. In many cases, these traditional food practices; the knowledge, the ability and skills around the practices are already present in communities. But it often exists in small pockets, and there aren’t a lot of opportunities to share. It’s time to share stories that can help “reignite the fire within our communities,” as Byron calls it. It begs the question: What is Indigenous Food Sovereignty?