Kenzie Love

Five Reasons to Plan Ahead to Attend the 2025 CWCF Conference

By Lacey Chyz Lacey Chyz is the founder of Self Help and Solidarity, an empowerment agency that educates people about the power of cooperation, and facilitates opportunities for sustainable community economic development.       The Connections and Networking Every conference boasts about networking opportunities, but nothing compares to cooperation among cooperatives! This fundamental co-op … Five Reasons to Plan Ahead to Attend the 2025 CWCF Conference


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Conference 2024 Reflection

Jackie Somerville is a past CWCF board member who once belonged to Edible worker co-op, an experience she recalls fondly. Thank you for allowing me to join the Zoom call for the CWCF 2024 Conference.  The enthusiasm and ideas of all the participants reawakens my zest for my own life and projects.  It brought back … Conference 2024 Reflection


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Conference 2024 Overview

  By Kenzie Love CWCF’s second-ever fully virtual conference took place from November 19-21 with a theme of Unleashing Worker Co-ops for Success. In keeping with this theme, the event recognized the profound economic, social, and environmental challenges facing both workers and worker co-ops, while also celebrating the creativity, passion, and excitement worker co-ops have … Conference 2024 Overview


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Solidarity Co-op Members SEIZE the Opportunity, in Quebec and Beyond

By Kenzie Love In 2012, thousands of Quebec students engaged in protests over the provincial government’s increase in post-secondary tuition fees. With the repeal of the fee increase later that year, it might have seemed to some as though the issue was over. But the activists and organizers continued to meet and decided their work … Solidarity Co-op Members SEIZE the Opportunity, in Quebec and Beyond


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JEDDI Committee Call for Members, and Board BIPOC Advisors

CWCF’s Justice, Equity, Diversity, Decolonization and Inclusion (“JEDDI”) Committee is calling for applications for new committee members. At the same time, the Board of CWCF in conjunction with the JEDDI Committee is seeking BIPOC Advisors to the Board.   The Committee is seeking individuals who identify as Black, Indigenous or other People of Colour (BIPOC)  or … JEDDI Committee Call for Members, and Board BIPOC Advisors


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Workers Free to Pursue Their Passion at Eadha Bakery

Winnipeg’s Eadha Bakery Worker Co-op began as the brainchild of Cora Wiens, who started selling bread at farmers markets, and finding success with this venture, eventually moved into a bricks and mortar space. The onset of the pandemic, however, highlighted the challenges of running a sole proprietorship, and the worker co-op model beckoned. Beginning late … Workers Free to Pursue Their Passion at Eadha Bakery


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