November 3, 2011 – 10:59 am
Thank you to everyone who participated in the first launch of WalkHalifax. We finished the last walk on October 26, an Urban Nature Walk led by the Sierra Club. I learned A LOT. Norway maples all around the downtown have black spots on their leaves. Imported plant species don’t stand up well to our pests and diseases, kind of a no-brainier but I’ve lived here for 8 years without knowing that – SAD!
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Background
Since November 2009, the government of Nova Scotia (NS) has been facilitating a Social Enterprise Working Group comprised of federal and provincial civil servants and other professionals from various organizations across the province. By early 2011, the Working Group produced a discussion paper that explores social enterprise as a concept. The discussion paper refers to social enterprise as “businesses or organizations operated for the purpose of tackling social, economic or environmental challenges”. There is no agreement on what constitutes a social enterprise- different groups have different definitions based on specific objectives. The choice of the working group is influenced…
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