Co- Creston Co-op Gets Provincial Funding. The Creston & District Community Investment Co-op is now getting financial support from the provincial government. Nelson-Creston MLA Michelle Mungall, , was in Creston on Thursday to hand over $100,000 to help CICs with expenses as they expand throughout the Kootenay-Columbia region. Mungall said that she is glad to [...]
About five years ago, Federated Co-ops Limited, (FCL) a very large player in the co-operative sector in Western Canada, became concerned about the lack of co-op development in rural and Indigenous communities. So they asked The Centre for the Study of Co-operatives at the University of Saskatoon, to find out why. Research revealed that more [...]
BCCA announces new Executive Director! Andrea Harris will be joining the BCCA as it’s new Executive Director. Harris has a strong background in the co-op sector; she has worked as a co-op developer and academic, and she spent 15 years at Vancity in various senior leadership roles, including most recently as Director of Member and Community Insights. [...]
Feds Get Feedback on Coops The federal government has released What We Heard: Motion 100 consultations which contains the consultations and submissions made by co-operators and stakeholders from April – November 2018. The general consensus is that Canada has an innovative co-op sector with great potential for growth. But several barriers are standing in the [...]
Another Award for Co-ops! The Co-operators has been awarded the highest ranking of the J.D. Power 2019 Canada Home Insurance Study for overall customer satisfaction in the Atlantic/Ontario region and ranked second overall in the Western region. The J.D. Power study measures overall customer satisfaction with Canadian home insurers, examining five critical factors: product/policy offerings, price, [...]
Federal Budget Highlights. The 2019 Federal Budget was presented March 19/2019. Highlights include: * $1.25 billion over three years for a First Time Home Buyer Incentive, along with other measures that will ease Canadians’ entry into the real estate market. The First Time Home Buyer Incentive – is an interest-free shared mortgage with the Canada [...]
There are some surprising results in the 2019 Top Co-op Issues survey conducted by the Centre for the Study of Co-operatives at The University of Saskatchewan. For the first time, a growing number of respondents are voicing concerns about the co-operative sector getting lost in the renewed interest around the social economy. And once more, [...]
