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An Innovative Model for Collaborative Creative Space

The Hub Halifax sells time with flexible memberships that operate like a cell phone plan. Pay for what you need. Use the Hub as your office, to host a meeting or work on a project. It is a place to scale up, change gears, take risks, make mistakes, and bump into people. Our core product is flexible membership in a shared space you can call your own. Based on a model from London, UK - The hub is a place for creative collisions.

Concrete measures to upgrade National Historic Sites of Canada

The government of Canada announced it is renewing the National Historic Sites of Canada Cost-Sharing Program. The decision follows the commitment in Canada's Economic Action Plan 2009 to upgrade national historic sites as a means of stimulating growth in the tourism sector. The Cost-Sharing Program includes a budget of $20 million provided in part by Canada's Economic Action Plan.

Funding program from Canadian Heritage: Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage


The Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage program was created to help you celebrate your community, its past and its present. The Program will increase opportunities, through festivals or other events and activities, for your local artists and artisans to be involved in their community and for local groups to commemorate your local history and heritage. Eligible events and activities must be local - created by and for your community. They must be open and accessible to the public and strongly encourage and promote the participation of everyone in your community." The next application deadline is April 30, 2009.

New Legal Structure for Social Enterprise?

"Social Enterprise" is not a legal expression in Canada. There is no national or provincial social enterprise act or regulation that defines it or gives it legal form or structure. It is not addressed in the voluminous federal Income Tax Act as something distinct and worthy of unique treatment. This paper argues that governments should modernize the organizational infrastructure that applies to social enterprise to better enable it to flourish. A relatively modest start would be new legislation enabling the creation of a legal structure specifically for the purpose of social enterprise

Conference Board of Canada: The Value of Diverse Leadership

This report from the Conference Board of Canada is a study of diverse leadership and its value. Having diversity among leaders can bring in benefits to any organization, whether it is a public, private, or non-profit organization. These benefits in return can strengthen communities. "More effectively utilizing the skills of leaders from the immigrant and visible minority populations has been shown to increase social capital and prosperity." This report highlights the benefits of positioning leaders from minority populations, and provides a frameworkof action.

Denver Post: For Kids Play is Work

For kids, play is work. Children are kinetic beings who love to move. While it might look like child's play, turning somersaults and playing tag involves the whole brain."Play is thinking time for young children. It is language time. Problem-solving time. It is memory time, planning time, investigating time," writes child-development specialist James L. Hymes in "Teaching the Child Under Six." "It is organization-of-ideas time, when the young child uses his mind and body and his social skills and all his powers in response to the stimuli he has met."

How to Move Kids from Cyberspace to Green Space

This article, by Katherine Dedyna a columnist with the Victoria Times, includes 10 practical and fun strategies for getting kids more involved in the outdoors.

Science Daily

Children at high risk of obesity who live near parks and recreation areas are apt to participate in walking activities more often, researchers recently reported at the American Heart Association's Conference on Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism. In a Canadian study, the presence of nearby parks was strongly associated with girls walking to school and boys engaging in leisure walking.

Support for Arts and Heritage

The Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage Program provides support for activities that celebrate local artists and artisans and local historical heritage, and that are intended for and open to the general public. Funding is available through two different components: 1. Component I: Local Arts and Heritage Festivals supports local community events and activities that feature the public presentation of local artists and/or of local heritage 2. Component II: Community Historical Anniversaries - Programming supports local community events and activities that commemorate the 100th or greater (in increments of 25 years) anniversary of a local historically significant event or person. The next deadline for applications to Component I, Local Arts and Heritage Festivals is April 30 for festivals starting between September 1 2009 and March 31 2010 The next deadline for applications to Component II, Community Historical Anniversaries - Programming, is April 30 for events starting between September 1 2009 and December 31 2010

Earth Councils

Community Earth Councils (CECs) are groups of elders (50+) and youth (16-28) working together to address global environmental and social challenges at the local level. CECs build community, helping young people find meaning and purpose while providing elders with a way to give back, inspire, and impact the future. Participants in a CEC explore how, together, they can bring vision into action.

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