Conferences

2023 AGM And Conference Documents

AGM KIT & DOCUMENTS 2023 Annual Report 2023 AGM agenda 2022 AGM minutes Audited Financial Statements  Strategic plan 2022-2026 2023-24 CWCF Budget CWCF Proposed Bylaw Amendments_10-2023 Memo on proposed bylaw amendments_10-2023 Resolutions Process Late Resolutions Form Anti-harassment Code BOARD CANDIDATE STATEMENTS  Leslie Brown Board Candidate Statement Tara Williams board Candidate Statement Kelly Storie Board Candidate Statement  2023 AGM And Conference Documents


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Worker Co-op Tours Are a Highlight of Conference 2023

CWCF’s Conferences can always be counted on to deliver great presentations, workshops, and networking opportunities. This year, however, features an additional draw, courtesy of the Conference’s location in Quebec City: tours of the city’s dynamic worker co-op scene, which will visit four local enterprises. It’s one of the many parts of this year’s Conference you Worker Co-op Tours Are a Highlight of Conference 2023


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CWCF Conference 2023: Stronger Together

Today, we are facing many challenges: the climate crisis, systemic racism, growing income inequality, and others. While the problems are clear, the solutions may not always be readily apparent. But there is one constant: we can best address these issues if we do so together.   That’s why “Stronger Together” is the theme of this year’s CWCF Conference 2023: Stronger Together


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Seeking Worker Co-op Award Nominations

CWCF is seeking nominees for two awards:  the Worker Co-op Best Practices Award, and the Mark Goldblatt Worker Co-op Merit Award.  The Worker Co-op Best Practices Award goes to a worker co-operative which has demonstrated best practices in governance and/or operations, including in upholding the values and principles of the co-operative movement within their co-operative, Seeking Worker Co-op Award Nominations


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CWCF AGM News

By Kenzie Love CWCF held our 2022 AGM on November 18, and as always it was an important exercise in fulfilling our commitment to the second co-operative principle of democratic member control. Evan Proven was acclaimed to a second term as director for the Prairies/NWT/Nunavut region, while the seat for the Atlantic region remains vacant. CWCF AGM News


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Conference 2022 Overview

By Kenzie Love Note that the available Conference presentations can be found at this link.   CWCF was excited to hold our first in-person Conference since 2019 from November 17-19 in Vancouver, BC. We were fortunate to have a beautiful setting, great weather, and most importantly, the chance to connect after so long apart. Although the Conference 2022 Overview


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Wood Shop Workers’ Co-op Receives Worker Co-op Best Practices Award

    CWCF’s Worker Co-op Best Practices Award is presented by the board to to a worker co-operative which has demonstrated best practices in governance and/or operations, including in upholding the values and principles of the co-operative movement within their co-operative, and has shared, or is willing to share their experience and learnings with other Wood Shop Workers’ Co-op Receives Worker Co-op Best Practices Award


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2022 AGM Documents

Annual Report 2022 Report on Strategic Plan 2019-2022 AGM 2022 Agenda AGM 2022 Slides AGM 2021 Minutes Audited Financial Statements 2021-22 Current year budget 2022-23 Candidate statement for Evan Proven – Prairies By-law Amendments-resolutions for discussion only Form and process for late resolutions 


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