With its innovative online social networking community, WIND is listening to what Canadian consumers want from a wireless carrier and it is providing it to them: no contracts, identical plans available for pre- and post-paid customers, and simple and transparent plans offering numerous features.

The SOCAM wants to improve communications between the various communities through newspapers, magazines, radio and television programs, films, and basically any written, spoken or visual communications tools; provide live broadcasting of news programs on aboriginal issues pertaining to culture, the economy and community life in the language of each of those two nations; involve community radio stations in the business' organizational activities; provide technical support and training to local stations to ensure proper rebroadcasting of the network's programs; launch projects designed to improve communications and relationships between aboriginal peoples, between the two nations and between member communities by using new information tec ...[+++]hnologies and communications; operate a broadcasting network for 14 local member stations; establish cooperative and complementary ties with local community radio stations; organize adequate programming that reflects the Atikamekw and Innu culture; inform the locals of major news events that directly affect them; provide local radio stations and their staff with adequate equipment, tools and communication techniques; implement training programs; provide translation and interpretation services; design a television production centre; develop community access via Internet to new information technologies and communications technologies by implementing multimedia access centres for communities—and I could name 23 or 24 communities in Quebec—; implement communication services and infrastructures to support initiatives pertaining to health, learning and community access to cover social and community activities, a project that was in fact taken over by Industry Canada.

[3] The 2001 ENSR survey of over 7,000 SMEs in: European SMEs and Social and Environmental Responsibility, report published in the 7th Observatory of European SMEs, 2002, European Commission, Enterprise DG ( [http ...]

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It affects businesses and employers, so it's not strictly on poverty, but certainly poverty is very closely intertwined with our EI system, as it is with the other parts of the social network we have in Canada.

The eligible measures cover in particular the following fields: - advice and equipment to help improve the know-how base in the businesses concerned: quality control, computer-aided design, marketing, health and safety; - support for local groupings of companies and for cooperation, networking and information on markets; - business audits on the above themes by a special taskforce, in particular within SMEs, financial engineering schemes; - temporary contribution to the remuneration of personnel recruited as part of modernization plans; - staff training in companies, as well as of personnel in the military sector made redundant or facing redundancy; - rehabilitation of areas where the environment has been damaged by military activities ...[+++]; - promotion of alternative activities, in particular via the creation of small businesses; - modernization of economic and social infrastructures; - promotion of tourism.