Making Waves: Canada’s Community Economic Development Magazine

Posted by on April 8, 2005

The (much delayed!) Winter 2004 edition of Making Waves: Canada’s Community Economic Development Magazine features articles on Business Retention & Expansion, on Wal-Mart, on labour market integration in Qu?bec, in addition to new issues of the “Insiders’ Guide to Community Renewal” and “The High Road.”

Find a summary of the contents below. To view sample articles, request a trial copy, or subscribe, go to http://www.cedworks.com/waves.html.

CONTENTS

Public Institution? or Public Nuisance?
Human Resources & Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) has gone from partner to pest in its relationship with the community sector. Ill-conceived notions of “public accountability” are making this federal ministry a hindrance to the very contractors who carry out so much of its mandate.

Wal-Mart: Boon or Menace?
You’ve watched Mr. Happy Face shooting down the prices on an incredible range of consumer goods. You’ve heard about union-busting, unseemly employment practices, and offshore sweatshops. Can Wal-Mart play a constructive role in community revitalization?

Play Ball!
This, the third Insiders’ Guide to Community Renewal, uses balloons and ball teams to introduce the rationale for comprehensive, community-based planning and action.

Cutting Loose
After 25 years of stagnation, Swift Current, Saskatchewan has become a showcase for Business Retention and Expansion (BR&E). Taking the lead in local renewal, business owners set in motion a community-wide strategy in collaboration with the public and social service sectors.

The High Road
Mike Lewis broaches the conceptual foundations of the social solidarity economy. While setting our era apart from everything that has come before in terms of production capacity, neo-liberalism is fundamentally ill-suited to the management of the planet’s resources.

A Day in the Life of Le Boulot vers …
For nearly a generation now, Montreal’s Le Boulot vers … has been helping young people make the break from poverty, alienation, and dependency, and discover instead a world of opportunity.

Coming in the Fall of 2005 – a special edition (a summer/autumn double issue) concerning initiatives, issues, and challenges in the role of women in CED and the social economy. For more information go to
http://www.cedworks.com/mw1603_Women&CED.html.

Don McNair
Making Waves: Canada’s CED Magazine
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