Join us for the 2025 MacPherson Talk, "Social and Solidarity Economy Research: Where We Are and Where We're Going" featuring Dr. Marie Bouchard
Honouring the late Dr. Ian MacPherson, the CCSC's annual MacPherson Talk will take place on Wednesday, December 17, 2025, from 4:00-5:30 pm CST (Saskatchewan time) and it will feature Dr. Marie Bouchard, Université du Québec à Montréal, emeritus of the Centre de recherche sur les innovations sociales (CRISES), and consultant to the International Labour Organization (ILO) and UN Task Force on the Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE).New Publication: Co-ops and Credit Unions - 2025 Report from the Board Room
What do governance practices look like in the Canadian co-operative sector and how have they evolved over time? These are the types of questions that the Canadian Centre for the Study of Cooperatives’ triennial survey of co-operative governance practices aimed to answer. This report presents the broad landscape of governance practices from the 136 co-operatives and credit unions that participated in the 2025 survey and compares these findings to what was found in the 2022 wave of the survey.
Join us for our next Co-op Conversation, "Developing an International Indigenous Co-operative Network" featuring Mary Nirlungayuk
Our first Co-op Conversation of 2026 takes place on Wednesday, January 7, 2026, from 12:00 - 1:00 PM (Saskatchewan Time). These online gatherings are free to attend and an opportunity for co-operative sector professionals to learn from others in the field and exchange information in a casual setting.
New Publication: Saskatoon Community Clinic Evaluation Report
The Saskatoon Community Clinic (SCC) Evaluation Report is the result of a multi-year, transdisciplinary, collaborative research effort to assess the effectiveness of the SCC’s co-operative primary care clinic model relative to physician-led primary care clinics.
New Publication: Acting on MacPherson’s Advice: Continuing to Study and Learn from the Northern Co-operative Experience
As part of the new Northern Review's special issue, "Exploring Northern Economic Development", this paper by CCSC Professional Research Associate, Natalie Kallio, describes the work that the CCSC is undertaking that revisit and reinvigorate previous initiatives and focus on a new set of questions meaningful to northern co-operatives and northern communities.
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