Municipal government support of the social economy sector

The project is managed by four regional partners — the Centre for the Study of Co-operatives and the Community-University Institute for Social Research at the University of Saskatchewan, the Institute of Urban Studies at the University of Winnipeg, and the Community Economic and Social Development Unit at Algoma University College. [...] The opinions of the authors do not necessarily reflect those of the Centre for the Study of Co-operatives, BALTA, the Linking, Learning, Leveraging project, or the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. [...] The report begins with an introduction to the research, the research background, the rationale, an overview of the scope of the study, and a summary of research definitions and concepts. [...] It may be that a mayor is also the head of a nonprofit, a councillor is the town store owner, the school principal is also a local farmer, and the town doctor volunteers as the manager of the local hockey rink. [...] Communities in this area relied on the mills and the booming forest trade for employment, but with the economic downturn, the crash of the forestry in- dustry, and the loss of Nipigon’s mill to a fire three years ago, there has been a lot of out-mi- gration from the community.