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As you know, the Prime Minister has called a by-election in the federal riding of Victoria to replace retiring MP Denise Savoie (NDP). The by-election will be held on Monday, November 26.We…
Delegates at CHF BC’s December 1 annual general meeting will be electing five new directors to serve on the CHF BC board and one finance committee member.
Delegates at CHF BC’s December 1st annual general meeting will be asked to adopt two special resolutions.
Outside this year’s Island Education Day the weather was grey and blustery, but inside it was warm and lively! Registrants were treated to two workshops designed to position co-ops for the end…
The CHF BC Fall Education Conference held on Saturday, October 20 in Burnaby offered a day of learning with something for everyone in a range of workshops including nine new ones.140 participants…
This fall’s Vancouver Island Council meeting on Wednesday Oct. 17th opened in a unique fashion. Co-op member Art Farquharson (Seawalk Co-op), wielding his guitar and sporting a Hawaiian shirt…
CHF BC and CHF Canada members came together at the October Member Forum on Wednesday, October 10 to look at how co-ops are planning for the end of co-op operating agreements. They broke into groups…
The potential for co-operative enterprise to provide a powerful boost to Vancouver’s vision of becoming the "greenest city" by 2020 is the subject of the Co-operative City Conference on…
CHF BC and CHF Canada members came together at the Member Forum on September 10 to hear about one of the newest co-ops in the province, the Vancouver Tool Library. Chris Diplock, president of…
A group of graduate students, researchers, professors and writers from the Social Enterprise Research Institute at SungkongHoe University in South Korea visited CHF BC’s offices this August….
In celebration of 2012, the International Year of Co-operatives (IYC), housing co-ops clustered in the Commercial Drive neighbourhood of Vancouver began meeting early this year to…
Beginning August 1, CHF BC members in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley can now choose from two flooring suppliers. Our members buy more than $1 million a year in flooring product in our group…