Arts & Entertainment
The decision is finally in! On September 9th, 2011, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced their approval to allow Vancouver Co-op Radio to broadcast at the 100.5 FM frequency. This decision has many benefits for the 35-year-old Co-op Radio, including new technical equipment, new outreach opportunities and new financial income.
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Community
$1000 community economic development bursary
Deadline to apply: December 14, 2009
The Canadian CED Network, Coast Capital Savings and the Vancity Community Foundation are pleased to announce applications are being accepted for $1000 bursaries to enroll in Simon Fraser University's Certificate Program for Community Economic Development.
Category: Agriculture, Arts & Entertainment, Business, Community, Environment, Health, Science & Tech, Youth
What could $50,000 of creative services do for your social enterprise?
Category: Agriculture, Arts & Entertainment, Business, Community, Environment, Health, Science & Tech, Youth
The progressing culture of a city defines and separates it from other urban areas. Unfortunately, London’s arts scene can sometimes feel like a younger sibling in Ontario, often overlooked by larger cities and only seldom chiming in with a unique voice.
However, a group of young artists and Western students calling themselves the Open House Arts Collective aim to add a little more maturity and confidence to London’s cultural movements.
Category: Arts & Entertainment
A new co-op on Argyle Street near Third Avenue is giving a handful of artists another venue to show their work in Port Alberni.
The Artists’ Co-operative comprises four separate businesses under one roof: Free Burde Studio, owned by DJ Burdett; Captured Images by Don Osborne of Ucluelet; The Shutterflies Kiss, by Dana Lloyd-Walker; and Woodswork art by Liam Tromans.
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Business
The New Brunswick Filmmakers' Co-operative is calling on area residents to get their creative juices flowing.
In lieu of Fredericton being named a Cultural Capital of Canada for 2009, the co-op, celebrating its 30th anniversary next year, is encouraging the public to submit short scripts until July 25 regarding what makes Fredericton a cultural capital.
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Community
Under the leadership of its Co-Chair, Sid Gould, InsideArt Cooperative has been successful in stating its case to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) that this non-profit cooperative is not subject to the payment of corporate tax on its net income.
InsideArt was counseled by an accountant specialized in co-op taxation that it must file a T2 (corporate tax return) as a Canadian Controlled Private Corporation (CCPC), and would be taxed at the CCPC rate on their net income. This position was affirmed as one commonly held by many co-op developers in BC.
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Business, Community, Government
It was, at times, a rocky road to the altar. Now the impending union is being cautiously celebrated as the critical first step toward creating a national financial co-operative that could up the ante on big banks.
Years in the making and temporarily thwarted by the commercial-paper crisis, the long-awaited merger between Credit Union Central of Ontario Ltd. and Credit Union Central of British Columbia is finally set to close July 1.
Category: Arts & Entertainment
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