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Edward Pickersgill
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Edward PickersgillPresidentPortal Links Inc.
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Edward Pickersgill is a community economic developer.He is a founding partner in Assets Dot Net Inc. as well as Portal Links Inc. both of which are federal corporations.In the year 2000 Portal Links Inc. completed acquisition of My Town Media Canada Inc. and has proceeded steadily with development of the MyTown.ca portal.

Edward is also founder and President of the community-based, non-profit Matrix Affordable Homes for the Disadvantaged Inc. which has (since 1987) developed a portfolio consisting of about ,18m of social housing with federal and provincial government supports.Matrix, under Edward's lead, has also created three subsidiary corporations through which a portfolio of independent, non-government houses are held in trust for special community-based residential programs.These three corporations are: (1) Room For Us (Guelph) Inc.; (2) Room For Us (Wellington) Inc.; and (3) Room For Us (Arthur) Inc.The combined assets of these three subsidiary corporations is now over ,2 million, with operations based on a self-sustaining model of intentional communities.

Mid-way through 2002 Edward was elected President of Abbeyfield Houses Society of Guelph, a non-profit charity with a 6 bedroom residence dedicated to housing seniors and persons with disabilities.The other five seats on the Abbeyfield board went, at the request of the Abbeyfield founders, to five other housing activists in the Matrix organization.In December 2002 Edward successfully concluded negotiations for Abbeyfield Houses Society of Guelph to take on full ownership of 77-I Unitholders Inc. and its 87 residences known as Creekview Townhomes in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Developed within the for profit sector and with tax incentives by the federal government Creekview was made available to Abbeyfield Houses Society of Guelph in exchange for charitable tax receipts equalling the equity (calculated by an independent, professional appraisal).

Edward served from January 2001 to January 2004 as the President of the Guelph Wellington New Democratic Party and is a firm believer in the capacity of the non-profit sector to create self-sustaining economies scaled to individual and community empowerment.

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