The Canadian CED Network

May 21-24, 2008
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Over 40 learning and information sharing sessions were offered at the
2008 National CED Conference. Each session was categorized into one of
the following streams:

• Building Fairer and Stronger Local Economies
• Tackling Poverty and Homelessness
• Investing in Sustainable Communities
• Research
• Introduction to CED

Plenary Speakers

Influencing Policy to Build People-Centred Economies

• Shauna McKinnon (Presentation PDF)
• Siapha Kamara (Presentation PDF)

The Need to Build People-Centred Economies

• Dr. Priscilla Settee (Presentation PDF)

Workshops

Building Fairer and Stronger Local Economies

Procurement Policy and Purchasing Practices: A Tool for CED and the Social Enterprise (PDF)
Presenters: David LePage (Enterprising Non-Profits) (PDF)

Strengthening CED: The Role of Municipal Government
Building Fairer and Stronger Local Economies (PDF)
Presenters: Marcia Tait (City of Edmonton) and Robyn Webb (CCEDNet Policy Council)

Le relève et le porc-épic (PDF)
Presenter: Georgette Bru (CCS)

The possibility of Social Enterprise Building Fairer and Stronger Local Economies (PDF)
Presenters: David LePage (Enterprising Non-Profits); Garry Loewen (Garry Loewen Consulting); Ethel Côté (L'Art du développement)

The Emerging Leaders' (EL) Story (PDF)
Presenters: Dini Silveira (CCEDNet), Naomi Adams (Emerging Leaders Committee, CCEDNet)

Youth and Social Enterprise (PDF | Toolkit)
Karim Harji, Raïmi B. Osseni & Chris Perrin (Emerging Leaders Committee, CCEDNet)

Tackling Poverty and Homelessness

Les pratiques plurielles de la francophonie (PDF)
Presenters:
Yollande Ndme Pita (RDÉE Ontario), Abraham Tounkara (RCDÉC), Ethel Côté
(Économie solidaire de l'Ontario; Politiques publiques)

International Partnerships for Policy Development (PDF)
Presenters: Ethel Côté (RENAPESS)

Counting Women In: Gender-Based Analysis (PDF)
Presenters: Louise Clarke (Academic Co-Director, Commumity University
Institute for Social Research, Feminist Research Methods), Roz Lockyer
(Executive Director, PARO), Gayle Broad (Community Economic and Social
Development Unit, Algoma University)

Fact of Fiction: Social Policy to Home Ownership in Less than Three Years (PDF)
Presenters: Anna Bubel (Another Way), Mary Sullivan (Capital Region Housing Corporation)

Sewing and Sewing Together (PDF)
Presenters: Melanie Conn, Danielle Levine (Women's CED Council);
Rayleyne Theriault (HERS, Every Woman's Centre); Maggie MacDonald
(Imogene's, Women's Employment Resource Centre); Penny Irons (MaMa's
Wall St. Studio, Aboriginal Mother Centre); Janice Hollins (Northern
Star Worker Co-op)

Social Enterprise Models of Women-Centred CED (PDF)
Presenters: Jessica Notwell/Melanie Conn (Women's CED Council); Marichu
Antonio - (EthniCity Centre for Newcomers); Mary Kargas (Enterprising
Women Making Art); Penny Irons (MaMa's Wall St. Studio, Aboriginal
Mother Centre)

Capacity Development to Meaningful Employment (PDF)
Presenters: Anita Verlangen (Core Neighborhood Youth Coop)

Research

Women-Centred CED Research (PDF)
Presenter: Lou Hammond Ketilson (Centre for the Study of Co-operatives)

What and How are We Learning About the Social Economy? (PDF)
Presenters:
Representatives from the regional research nodes, including: Ritch
Hutchins, Lou Hammond Ketilson, Louise Sutton, Jacques Caillouette,
Mike Lewis and Ian McPherson

Introduction to CED

The Art of Advocacy (PDF)
Presenters: Diana Jedig (Ontario Association of Community Futures Development Inc.) and Flo Frank (Common Ground)

CED 101 (PDF)
Presenters: Lindsey McBai (CCEDNet) and David Daughton (CCEDNet)