The Long Shadow of Asian Growth: Challenges for the global sustainability agenda
It doesn’t seem that long ago that everything you bought was “Made in Taiwan” or “Made in Japan”. It was the era of All in the Family, Big Yellow Taxi andThe Female Eunuch. Social taboos went mainstream, environmental consciousness came out of the shadows, and...
Women in Quebec: Pioneering social change
This month, on the 8th of March, Canada joins many other countries around the world to celebrate International Women’s Day. Originally called International Working Women’s Day, it was first celebrated on the 19th of March, 1911 in Germany after a declaration...
Chemistry lessons for creating a social finance reaction
Perhaps chemistry has some lessons to teach us about how to catalyze the connections between the demand for, and supply of, social finance. A chemical reaction occurs where specific amount(s) of reactant(s) combine to create (expected or unexpected) products. This...
New partnership to build Canada’s impact-investing marketplace
Canada, like many other jurisdictions, is at an innovation crossroads. The global economy is finding a new normal. Increasingly complex societal challenges are crippling communities, education, and health care systems and the environment. These challenges require a...
The simple logistics of international aid
Scott Gilmore offers a bet. With one phone call, the Ottawa native said he could get a trailer filled with bottled water shipped to the most remote corners of the world within a few days. We took his word for it. Few people know more about moving the nuts...
Legal structures for social enterprise: What’s law got to do with it?
There’s a movement underfoot. A call to action to establish a separate legal structure for social enterprise in Canada. And, like many issues in this cozy world we inhabit, the quest is challenging, dare I even say divisive. “What’s that?” you ask incredulously....
CAPE Fund: Paul Martin’s quest continues
The CAPE (Capital for Aboriginal Prosperity and Entrepreneurship) Fund may have launched in 2009 but its seeds were planted years ago. A $50 million private-sector investment fund initiated by the right Honourable Paul Martin and his son David, one could say its...
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