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In the late 90s, Joe Carter, Director of Education for Onion Lake First Nation, recognized First Nations had similar financial services needs to their non-Indigenous counterparts, but those needs weren’t being met in the same way. He saw an opportunity and went to work.

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A Story of Many Nations

Neighborhood parliaments in India. The two solutions to powerlessness and selfishness are: smallification and neighborhoodization.

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Heaven On Earth. Neighborhood Parliaments in India

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This spring marked the launch of a technical services co-operative led by four of the province’s most prominent tribal councils, with the help of Saskatoon-based organization Co-operatives First.

The Saskatchewan First Nations Technical Services Cooperative Ltd., which provides engineering, water treatment and housing inspection services to First Nations’ housing programs, launched in March with tribal councils and individual First Nations as the shareholders.

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Tribal councils to lead technical services co-op

October is Cooperative Month in the U.S. Ethan Giebel of Cooperative Network discusses the celebration along with the impact co-ops make in Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin.

 

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Episode Four - Cooperative Month

Today’s show looks at the emerging movement as well as the history of food cooperatives. 

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Co-op Power Hour: Food Co-ops

The Cooperatives Unit of the International Labour Organization is looking for a consultant to prepare a report on good practices in combatting unlawful labour intermediation practices by pseudo-worker cooperatives in different countries and sectors across the globe. For details please see the call for proposal below.

The deadline for submission of application is 5 November 2018.

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Call for proposals: Good practices on addressing pseudo-cooperative practices in labour intermediation

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