Our guest is Manda Ann Roddick, a PhD student in the Department of Sociology and a recipient of a 2010 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. The Vanier Scholarship will support Manda’s doctoral studies which will focus on youth and global social justice. During her MA, Manda travelled to Ghana to conduct research and to Mexico to participate in a course on Critical Development Studies. Manda has also volunteered with a variety of youth organizations in the past decade and these experiences contributed to her growing concern over youth involvement in international development.

A PDF of Manda's Master's Thesis is available on UVic's DSpace at the following link:
https://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8443/dspace/handle/1828/1160

And more information about the Otesha Project mentioned on the show is available at the following link:
http://www.otesha.ca/.

Jessica Scott and Khalilah Alwani of the Positive Space Network at the University of Victoria join us to talk about the network.

For the transcript of the keynote address delivered by Pamela Brown that was mentioned in the episode, please visit the following link:
http://web.uvic.ca/~psn/2010/02/the-pride-that-binds-us/

Ian MacPherson of the Canadian Social Economy Hub speaks about the Social Economy, including how is it applied in Canada and other parts of the world, and the degree of academic interest.

For today's show, we speak with our guests, Dr. Sabine Lehr, Stacy Chappel, and Wendy Swan about the new Master of Arts in Community Development program from the UVic School of Public Administration.

We present recordings of keynote speakers Dr. James Rowe and Dr. Noel Keough from "Flourishing With a Co-operative Economy". The event was presented by the South Islands Regional Co-operative Network (SIRCNet) with the support of the City of Victoria and held on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at City Hall in Victoria.

For further information, please visit the following site:
Sustainable Calgary

Laura Parisi joins us to tell us about Social Justice Studies at UVic, and the "Introduction to Social Justice Studies: Theories of Social Justice" course she's team teaching with Bill Carroll and Dennis Pilon.

And Ken Zakreski gives us an update about CKGI Gabriola Co-operative Radio and the National Campus and Community Radio Conference being hosted by the Gabriola Radio Society.

Ian MacPherson, co-director of the Canadian Social Economy Hub, shares his views on co-operative thought, history, and co-operative contributions to peace.

For related notes, resources and a podcast of Ian's participation in the CSE Hub telelearning session March 30th, 2010, please visit the following link:
Telelearning Session 19: The Long View of the Social Economy.

Lisa Helps, Executive Director of the Community Micro Lending Society in Victoria speaks about the formation, organization, and plans of the society. The society was featured in the April 2010 edition of Focus Magazine.

After the conversation with Lisa, we played a recording of Kara Martin in conversation with James Rowe about a keynote lecture he delivered at the ESSA conference at UVic in March, 2010. The conversation is available in the podcast of the March 23, 2010 edition of CFUV's Breakin' Ice: Visions of the Future.

Lee Fuge speaks about her role as BC/Yukon representative of the Canadian Worker Co-operative Federation, and Mark Sherman talks about the Victoria Community Health Co-operative including primary health care renewal and Integrative medicine.

We play a recording of a conversation Joan Russow had with Stefano Zamagni, Economic Professor from the University of Bologna, where he speaks, among other things, about the concept of reciprocity. Thanks to Joan, Vancity, Lazarus Productions, and Modea Productions. The conversation was previously broadcast on Shaw Victoria, and is available at http://vimeo.com/9287294.

For more on economics and co-operatives, an article by Michael M'Gonigle is available at www.countercurrents.org/gonigle110210.htm, which includes the comment "...This year, the Nobel Prize in Economics went to Elinor Ostrom for her work in showing just how such a commons economy operates. Revitalizing the commons (and it is a basic part of eco-conversion) would draw on a plethora of global initiatives, from local currencies to worker co-operatives." More about Elinor Ostrom's research on the commons is available at http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2009/info.pdf.