Especially appreciated email ccpamb@policyalternatives.ca was the vision and energy of Jody Linklater, the time and generosity of instructors and staff at ATEC, and the time made available by students at ATEC in sharing their stories. [...] The commitment and passion of everyone involved at the training centre to help students and the community succeed are inspiring. [...] Others, including a former chief, nity a say in the development of the project and and the community’s economic development an on-going role in monitoring its impacts. [...] The program tried to offer pro- 2 canadian centre for policy alternatives —. ManitoBa gramming that responded to the assessed, and gas station, in payments to their housing provid- the expressed, needs and interests of students. [...] The net-zero buildings (2012) points out that if all the leakage areas of a were compared with those that met the minimum conventional home were added together it would Ontario Building Code for the year of construc- equate to having a 1.2 square foot hole in the wall tion (2006), and buildings that achieved higher of the building.