Kenzie Love
Pansy Club Helps Queer Community Blossom
By Kenzie Love Pansy Club started in Calgary in 2021, inspired by the legacy of previous grassroots queer parties. From modest beginnings, it has since grown to become an important part of the city’s queer culture, with the aim of eventually becoming a queer cafe and social space actually owned by the queer community. Pansy … Pansy Club Helps Queer Community Blossom
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B Corps Are One Piece of a Complex Puzzle
By Kenzie Love Amid a growing market for climate change mitigation and adaptation planning, Sustainability Solutions Group (SSG) faces stiff competition when it responds to requests for proposals. The award-winning consultancy already has one significant differentiator from most of its competitors: it’s a worker co-op. But while this should be an indicator that SSG doesn’t … B Corps Are One Piece of a Complex Puzzle
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Request for proposals: strategic plan revision
The Canadian Worker Co-operative Federation (“CWCF”) is a national, bilingual grassroots membership organization of and for worker co-operatives, multi-stakeholder co-ops with substantial worker control, and organizations that support the growth and development of worker co-operatives. CWCF was incorporated in 1992, has approximately 65 member cooperatives and an annual budget of approximately $600,000. Activities and services … Request for proposals: strategic plan revision
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June 2025 newsletter
Call for Board Nominations, AGM Resolutions, and Awards
Board Nominations CWCF is seeking nominations for its board of directors. Serving on the CWCF Board is a great opportunity to help guide the worker co-op movement in this country and for networking with other worker co-operators. To be eligible to run, you must be a worker-member of a CWCF Regular Member (worker co-op or … Call for Board Nominations, AGM Resolutions, and Awards
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Racial Justice Project Grants Awarded
CWCF has a Racial Justice Action Plan with the long-term objective of a worker co-operative movement in Canada which is racially diverse, inclusive, and just. To help achieve this objective, CWCF has established a racial justice granting pool. This granting pool is allocated to projects led by individuals who are Black, Indigenous or other People … Racial Justice Project Grants Awarded
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Trade Agreements Must Prioritize People Over Profits: Worker Co-ops Can Help
By Kenzie Love The Trump administration’s recent actions on international trade have destabilized the global economy, and co-ops have felt the impact. The old economic order as it pertained to trade may be a thing of the past. But instead of pining for the supposed stability and prosperity of a bygone era, it’s important to … Trade Agreements Must Prioritize People Over Profits: Worker Co-ops Can Help
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VREC: Electrician & Solar Photovoltaics Installer
Job Duties electrical installation, maintenance and repair of solar photovoltaics, solar hot water, solar pool heating, and solar thermal systems installing solar photovoltaic panels, inverters, and associated equipment on rooftops of residential and commercial buildings installing electrical conservation equipment, energy-efficient lighting fixtures and general electrical work supervising apprentices completing solar site assessments preparing solar assessment … VREC: Electrician & Solar Photovoltaics Installer
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Worker Co-op Seizes Opportunities
By Kenzie Love Seize the Means of Production Video Co-op is a unionized video production worker co-op based in Vancouver, BC. Established in 2022, it was founded by five long-time collaborators who saw an opportunity to do art-based, nonprofit work. “We wanted to start a business, but were also thinking about the co-op model as … Worker Co-op Seizes Opportunities
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