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In The Co-operative Advantage: Building Relevance Through Community Integration, Sara Crossley explores how credit unions can strengthen their relevance by moving beyond transactions and intentionally building communities. Through partnerships, local investment, and co-operative development, credit unions can address members' real-life needs, foster deeper loyalty, and create a lasting advantage that traditional financial institutions struggle to replicate.

We often talk about climate change at a planetary level. Headlines focus on rising temperatures, shifting weather patterns, and global emissions targets. But for Canadian communities, the impacts are immediate and local. They show up in flooded basements, encroaching wildfires, heatwaves, disrupted harvests, rising insurance costs, and growing pressure on already stressed systems.