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Speaking up at meetings
This 2-page tip sheet will help you learn how meetings work and how to have your ideas heard (redesigned 2019).
Reading financial statements
Have you ever looked at your financial statements and wondered what it all means? Increase your comfort level when it comes to reading and using your co-op’s financial statements with some simple resources.
Where to turn: Dealing with opioids in your area
Share this resource about where to find naloxone kits and direct mental health services in your province or territory (2019).
Monthly Featured Resource
Speaking up at meetings
This 2-page tip sheet will help you learn how meetings work and how to have your ideas heard (redesigned 2019).
Featured Resource: Reading financial statements
Have you ever looked at your financial statements and wondered what it all means? Increase your comfort level when it comes to reading and using your co-op’s financial statements with some simple resources.
Featured Resource: Co-op housing principles poster
Share this quick reference poster in four languages (2008). The poster is available in English, French, Spanish, and Cantonese.
Featured Resource: Human Rights
Is your co-op aware of its human rights obligations? Does your co-op understand what duty to accommodate actually means? Here are resources and links to learn about this important issue.
Featured Resource: You, Your Co-op, and the Law (2019)
Our “You, Your Co-op, and the Law” resource has been updated for 2019. Click here for the Ontario version or visit theEmployment Resources page to see the B.C., Manitoba, and Alberta versions.
July Featured Resource: Where to turn: Dealing with opioids in your area
The opioid crisis is affecting housing co ops and communities across Canada. Whether you are a co-op manager, member or board member, this resource provides direct links to mental health services in your provinces or territory. Print this poster and place on bulletin boards or common areas.
Tips & Tricks
An evolving collection of themed links from around the Web. Our current theme: Reconciliation.
Namwayut: we are all one
In this video, Chief Robert Joseph shares his experience as a residential school survivor and the importance of truth and reconciliation in Canada.More
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Calls to Action
Read the 94 calls to action recommended by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to address the legacy of residential schools.More
Beyond 94
This CBC project tracks Canada’s progress in achieving the 94 calls to action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.More
Native Land
Search this interactive map to learn which Indigenous groups’ traditional territories you live on, what languages have been spoken there, and what treaties apply to your area.More
Kitchen table guide for reconciliation dialogue for individuals, communities and organizations
Start a conversation about reconciliation with this guide from Reconciliation Canada.More
Gallery of Artistic Expressions
See art collected by the National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls that commemorates those who have been lost.More