Wednesday, September 30
7:00 pm - 7:25 pm Evening Session Welcome
7:25 pm - 8:30 pmKeynote Address
Thursday, October 1
9:00 am — 9:15 am Welcome. Day 1 Review- David Daughton
9:15 am — 10:30 amPlenary Session I: Margie Mendell & Nancy Neamtan, Jan Myers
10:45 am — 12:00 am Café-style Sessions
1:15 pm — 3:15 pmPlenary Session II– Ross Reid, Johanne Lavoie , Marie-Anne Ferron
3:45 pm — 5:00 pmConcurrent Workshops (see bellow)
Friday, October 2
8:45 am — 9:00 amWelcome . Day 2 Review- David Daughton
9:00 am — 10:15 amPlenary Session III –
Yves Vaillancourt & Pamela Fancey, Rupert Downing
10:45 am — 12:30 pmTable Discussions
12:30 noonClosing Remarks
Workshop and Café information is available on the website HERE
Workshop #1:
Finance and Accounting in the Social Economy- Policy Tools & Frameworks
Organiser - David Upton (Nova Scotia Association of Community Business Development
Corporations)
Location: Vincent’s Restaurant, 2nd floor
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Workshop#2:
Sustainability: Social & Environmental
Organiser: - Omer Chouinard (Université du Moncton)
Location: Room 404, 3rd floor
Workshop#3:
Social & Economic Inclusion
Organiser: - Irené Novaczek (UPEI)
Location: Room 309, Board Room, 2nd floor
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Workshop #4:
Services in Response to Community Needs*
Organiser: Luc Thériault (UNB)
Location: Multi-Purpose Room
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* In French with simultaneous translation
CAFÉ SESSIONS
1.Les liens entre l’État et les enterprises dans le développement des enterprises
d’économie sociale en aide domestique au Québec– Christian Jetté (Université de Montréal) & Yves Vaillancourt (UQAM)
2.Home care policy in New Brunswick: Sailing Along or Headed towards the Shoal?
- Rose Cole (UNB)
3.Integrating Immigrants—Laura Lee Howard (UPEI)
4.Growing Capacity for Food Security Through Policy Change– The Experience of the Kids
Action Program—Patty Williams (MSVU)
5.Les élus et l’économie sociale— Florencia Mauri (RQRP-ÉS)
6.Social Economy Organizations and External Financing— George Karaphillis (CapeBreton
University)
7.La situation du financement solidaire au Québec— Margie Mendel (Concordia)
8.Subsistence and the Social Economy of Nunatsiavut, Labrador—David Natcher (University of Saskatchewan)
9. Policy and Co-ops in New Brunswick: Making the Pitch —Erin Hancock (UNB)
10.Public Investment and Social Value— Barbara Groome Wynne (University of Alberta)
11.Policy Recommendations and National implications: Maternity and Parental leave—Michelle MacCullum (Women’s NetworkPEI)
12.Really Local Harvest Coop—Dialogue, Policy & Research and small farmer’s needs— Gilles Martin (Real Local Harvest)
13.La contribution des associations de basins versants a l’économie sociale— Jocelyne Gauvin (Groupe de développement durable du Pays de Cocagne Sustainable Development Group Inc.)
14.Assessment of Social Economy Content in Nova ScotiaSecondary School Curriculum—Annie McKitrick (Social Economy Hub)