Sessions will discuss barriers/challenges and examine solutions/opportunities in:

• Access to Market/Competition
• Distribution
• Food Policy/Strategy
• Food Safety/Regulatory
• Land Use Planning & Food Production
• First Nations and Potential for Local Food Strategies and Initiatives

SPEAKERS

• Eric Biddiscombe, Senior Director Planning, Loblaw Companies
• Dr. Mary Buhr, Dean, College of Agriculture & Bioresources, U of S
• Kreesta Doucette, Executive Director, Food Matters Manitoba
• Amy Jo Ehman, Journalist and Author
• Doug Faller, Policy Manager, Agriculture Producers Association of SK
• Mike Furi, Branch Manager, MB/SK Wholesale Division The Grocery People LTD.
• Glen Grismer, Director of Land Use Planning, R.M. Corman Park
• Allen Kilback, Choice Family Meats, Processor and Retailer
• Harvey Knight, President, Muskoday Organic Growers Coop
• Paula Kotasek, Senior Planner, Neighbourhood Planning, City of Saskatoon
• Nial Kuyek, General Manager, Agriculture Producers Association of SK
• Jim Laturnas, Food Safety Specialist, Government of Saskatchewan
• David Natcher, Chair, Indigenous Land Management Institute (ILMI)
• Dr. Viki Sonntag, Author and Researcher ‘Sustainable Seattle’
• Brent Warner, Marketing Specialist, BC Ministry of Agriculture

Registration

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

$150 plus GST (by Jan. 31)
$200 plus GST (cut-off on all registrations by Feb. 26)
(includes sessions, meals and proceedings)

Pre-registration required

The Social Enterprise Presentation Circuit

Come out to a live presentation and connect with Edmonton’s greatest resource for Social Entrepreneurs.

From Grameen Bank, to Oxford University, to Edmonton’s Social Enterprise Fund (SEF), Social Entrepreneurs are making waves globally by combining their passion about making a difference in the world with the precision of professional enterprise. This new breed of Entrepreneurs approaches social and environmental challenges with the sophistication of venture capitalists, but designs businesses that maximize social/environmental impact rather than financial return.

The SEF presentation explores these new trends in Social Enterprise and reveals how you can tap into Edmonton’s financial and advisory resources to take your greatest ideas and world-transforming projects from concept to effective action.

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Upcoming Presentations:

JAN 17 – Edmonton Rotary luncheon

12:10 PM – Monday, January 17, 2011
The Sutton Place Hotel, 10235 – 101 Street
Edmonton, AB T5J 3E8
www.edrotary.com

JAN 18 – UofA Energy Club

5:30 PM – Tuesday, January 18, 2011
University of Alberta – ETLC (2-009)
Edmonton, AB
www.energyclub.wikidot.com

JAN 26 – E-Sage

6:00 PM – Wednesday, January 26, 2011
University of Alberta – Kiva Room, Education North (2-103)
Edmonton, AB
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=172367206134887
www.e-sage.ca

FEB 3 – The Business Link

5:30 PM – Thursday, February 3, 2011
100 – 10237 104 Street
Edmonton, AB T5J 1B1
www.canadabusiness.ab.ca

FEB 4 – NAIT

11:00 AM – Friday, February 4, 2011
NAIT – 10504 Princess Elizabeth Avenue
Edmonton, AB T5G 3K4
www.novanait.ca
 

Centre for the Study of Co-operatives 2010-2011 Seminar Series:

Building Respectful Relations: Community-University Research Parternships in the Social Economy

Professor Gayle Broad
Community Economic and Social Development Unit
Algoma University College

Hammond Ketilson (2005:3) suggests that in the conduct of social economy research there can be “… no single template for productive [community university] research partnerships. Each requires new approaches to collaboration, new ways of honouring identities and building relationships, new ways of inhabiting institutional and other spaces…”

This presentation will examine five community-university research partnership in the social economy for learnings that can assist researchers in meeting the challenge of developing respectful relations between communities and universities. It concludes that researchers themselves can be the pivotal point of relationship-building.

• Thursday, 20 January 2011
• 3:00pm - 5:00 pm
• University of Saskatchewan 1E80 Agriculture Building

Mark your calendars for two Co-operative Conferences!

The Conversions Conferences

This Conference will focus on the conversion of business enterprises into worker co-operatives.

• Location: Quebec City
• Date: October 11-13, 2011.

North American Conference of Worker Co-operatives

At the second event, we expect to formally launch the North America sub-region of the International Organisation of Industrial, Artisanal and Service Producers’ Co-operatives.

• Location: Quebec City
• Date: October 13-15, 2011

Click here to download the Event Program (pdf)

These events are organized jointly by the Canadian Worker Co-op Federation and Le Réseau de la coopération du travail du Québec with the support of the United States Federation of Worker Co-ops, La Fédération québécoise des coopératives forestières and the North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO).\