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SOS Children’s Village BC – Advisory Board member promoting an organization that provides invaluable foster home environment to the most vulnerable children.

Shudokan Karate & Education Society – Founding Director and Instructor of organization that for 10 years has provided free martial arts lesson to poor inner city children.

Helade Foundation – Member of Board of Directors of foundation dedicated to conservation of endangered species such as the spirit bear and related issues.

Macdonald-Laurier Institute – Member of advisory council of leading public policy think tank.

Geoscience BC – Geoscience BC is an industry-led, not-for-profit, applied geoscience organization that works in partnership with industry, academia, government, First Nations, and communities to fund applied geoscience projects with the objective to attract mineral and oil & gas exploration to British Columbia.

Vancouver Board of Trade – Director of the Board and Chair of the Aboriginal Opportunities Committee. VBT is largest business organization in the Province of BC with around 6000 members.

Native Investment and Trade Association – Founding President of non-profit that for over 20 years has promoted enterprise as a path to self-reliance for indigenous people.

Canada China Resource Development Foundation – Founding Director of the CCRDF. Follows up on high level trade missions lead to China. Role of organization is investment partnerships between North American and Chinese in the natural resource and energy industries.

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Economic Dependency Trap a Finalist for USA “Best Books” Award

Monday November 14, 2011

Calvin Helin's book The Economic Dependency Trap was recently recognized as a finalist in the highly competitive, Best Books 2011 Award in the US. ... [more]

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Smashing Success for Ottawa Book Launch

Tuesday January 11, 2011

Calvin Helin launched his new book The Economic Dependency Trap: Breaking Free to Self-Reliance in Ottawa on November 2, 2010 in the Rideau Club. The event was a huge success with participants attending from all corners of the nation. ... [more]

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THE ECONOMIC DEPENDENCY TRAP

Thursday November 18, 2010

The Economic Dependency Trap expands on the theme introduced in Dances with Dependency. It explains the universal forms of economic dependency that impact virtually every level of society and every country. ..[more]

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DANCES WITH DEPENDENCY

Dances with Dependency has become a runaway best seller and was written specifically to make a difference to the horrendous poverty and misery experienced by indigenous populations throughout the world. ..[more]

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