Kenzie Love
Co-op Care Offers A Better Way Amidst Covid-19 Pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a severe impact on both residential care facilities, private or government-run long-term care homes for seniors, and home care, personal support workers who provide services such as cooking, cleaning, and bathing to seniors and people with disabilities who are living on their own. The pandemic has affected both care recipients … Co-op Care Offers A Better Way Amidst Covid-19 Pandemic
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Co-op Sex Shop Invites People to Come As They Are
Come As You Are (CAYA) opened in 1997 with a mission: to provide Toronto with an ethical, feminist, sex-positive sex shop. Inspired by San Francisco’s Good Vibrations, which at the time was a worker co-op, CAYA’s founders had all previously worked in the industry as sex educators, retailers, or as manufacturers of related products. … Co-op Sex Shop Invites People to Come As They Are
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Executive Director’s Report – September 2020
By Hazel Corcoran Parcours training program/Covid-19 support/AGM/Call for board candidates /Ongoing lobby work/Webinars CWCF is working actively with le Réseau COOP in Quebec to adapt their worker co-op training program to English Canada, and we expect to launch it in January. It’s called le Parcours COOP, loosely translated as “Co-op Journey.” This program offers entrepreneurs … Executive Director’s Report – September 2020
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Noam Chomsky on Workplace Democracy
CoopZone Training Program
The CoopZone Training program is for those who wish to become co-operative developers, or to learn more about various aspects of the co-op development process. https://thecoopzone.coop/
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Employee Buyouts Model Has Potential Despite Obstacles
As Saskatchewan, like other provinces, confronts the challenges posed by the impending surge of retiring baby boomers, it seems natural to look to the employee succession solution. Ideally, employees taking over a business would provide jobs for those who would otherwise lose them if it shut down, income for a retiree counting on selling the business … Employee Buyouts Model Has Potential Despite Obstacles
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August 2020 newsletter
Tourne-Sol Reaps the Harvest of Co-operation
When Tourne-Sol started out in 2005, it was blazing something of a trail. There were few co-operative farms in Canada at the time, and 15 years later they remain quite rare. But Dan Brisebois, one of the co-op’s five founding members, has no regrets about the route its members took. “When you look at … Tourne-Sol Reaps the Harvest of Co-operation
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Board Member Profile: Reba Plummer
Based in Toronto, Reba Plummer has served on CWCFs board since 2010, and as board President since 2016. The Co-executive Director of Toronto’s Urbane Cyclist, Reba started out as the proprietor of her own bike shop before joining Urbane in 2000. She attended her first CWCF conference in 2006, and has been present at … Board Member Profile: Reba Plummer
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