This is an exciting year-long project that will explore the major issues relevant to diversity and immigration in Ottawa, looking for ways to maximize the opportunities and minimize the challenges.

All Our Sisters
Stories of Homeless Women in Canada
By Susan Scott

Published Under the Garamond Imprint

Though they account for only a small portion of the formal homeless statistics, there are many more women living on insufficient funds, with violent partners, in unacceptable dwellings, or in other fragile circumstances that are too often overlooked. They are our mothers, our daughters, our aunts, our nieces, our wives—they are all our sisters—and they remain largely invisible compared to homeless men.

MiningWatch Canada (MWC) is a pan-Canadian initiative supported by environmental, social justice, Aboriginal and labour organisations from across the country. It addresses the urgent need for a co-ordinated public interest response to the threats to public health, water and air quality, fish and wildlife habitat and community interests posed by irresponsible mineral policies and practices in Canada and around the world.

The Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN) is a labour and women's rights organization that supports the efforts of workers in global supply chains to win improved wages and working conditions and a better quality of life.

"Round Table Consultation on Foreign and Defense Policy"

"Canada -US Deep Integration" 

Web site: www.policyalternatives.ca
Awarded $3,000 - June 2003

"Security in Canada" 

Awarded $3,000 - January 2003

"John Polanyi Annual Conference" 

November 12-16, 2003

Web site: www.straightgoods.ca

Awarded $5,000 - 2002

MISC Conference on the Future of Social Democracy
The future of social democracy

May 16, 2001

Conference by the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada

"From the start, the whole point of social democracy is to assert the primacy of politics over economics" says former NDP leader Ed Broadbent, who is co-chair with Desmond Morton, director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, of the conference on:

George Brown photo exhibit project

Awarded $1 000 - 2001

The Douglas-Coldwell Foundation commissioned the writing and publishing of the The long overdue biography of M.J. Coldwell, the longest serving leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.