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It was not the news Canadian co-operators wanted to hear during the International Year of Co-operatives. Canada's co-operative movement learned this week that the country's only national program devoted to co-op development, the Co-operative Development Initiative (CDI), is being ended by the Canadian government, a victim of deficit-cutting measures in the government's 2012-13 budget. In addition, the size of the Rural and Co-operatives Secretariat, the office within ...

Courtesy of Shareable.net. Shareable is the online magazine that tells the story of sharing and covers the people and projects bringing a shareable world to life. Cooperative Leaders Meet with White House While the current narrative of the American economy is far from hopeful, cooperatives are setting a more uplifting tone. According to the National Cooperative Business Association in Washington, D.C., 29,000 cooperatives operate in the nation’s economy, and these democratically ...

It has never been easy for co-operatives to find their way into the pages of the Globe and Mail, the daily newspaper of choice for Canada's business elite.  But the International Year of Co-operatives has changed all that. On May 15, the Globe published an eight-page special report entitled "The Power of Co-operatives", sponsored by the Canadian Co-operative Association and the International Summit of Cooperatives and funded by advertising from several major Canadian ...

For the first time in US history, the White House held a national briefing for the widest range ever of US cooperative leaders. The trigger for this historical event was the United Nations declaring 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives (IYC). Clearly, the extensive IYC efforts of the National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA) and its members have had national impact on the White House. Seeing co-ops as a particularly bright spot in the US economy, the Obama Administration asked ...

It has been a busy week for co-ops from all over the world. In the US, co-operators share their reactions to meeting at the White House, Co-operatives UK released a report on the advantages of media co-operatives and Australia celebrated changes in co-operative law. [View the story "The global co-op week in review" on Storify] The global co-op week in review It has been a busy week for co-ops from all over the world. In the US, co-operators share their reactions to meeting at the White House, ...