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Quebec’s Worker Co-op Sector Offers Lessons for the Rest of Canada

By Kenzie Love   When discussing the ideal environment for worker co-ops, Spain’s Mondragon and the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy are often held up as models. But while its worker co-op sector isn’t as strong as in these areas, there’s another point of comparison closer to home: the province of Quebec. With over 200 worker Quebec’s Worker Co-op Sector Offers Lessons for the Rest of Canada


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Worker Co-op Academy Participants Offer Testimonies in Support of Program

CWCF’s Worker Co-op Academy is an online incubator program that coaches start-up groups through the process of developing and launching their worker co-op enterprises in a supportive cohort, with the help of experienced co-op developers. CWCF has run two cohorts through the program and is planning to launch the third cohort this May. Members of Worker Co-op Academy Participants Offer Testimonies in Support of Program


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Job Posting: Intern, CWCF Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDDI) Business Conversion Project

  This position has been filled   View full job posting >>   Job title: Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDDI) Social Acquisition Project Assistant (or “JEDDI Project Intern”)   Project: JEDDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, Decolonization, and Inclusion) Social Acquisition Project   Reports to: JEDDI Project Coordinator, Executive Director, and/or Communications and Member Services Manager Job Posting: Intern, CWCF Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDDI) Business Conversion Project


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JEDDI Business Conversion Project Update, March 2023

Since our Justice,Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Social Acquisition Project began in September 2022, the CWCF has been working diligently towards the completion of project tasks and communication objectives. To this end, we have participated in three main outreach events, and have completed several online (and print) educational and awareness materials, for members of Equity-Denied Groups JEDDI Business Conversion Project Update, March 2023


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Learning and Listening Will Help Canada’s Worker Co-op Sector Build Relationships With Indigenous Communities

By Kenzie Love As in many other BIPOC communities, Indigenous people in Canada have a long history of co-operativism. As Mark Intertas and James Thunder note in their paper Indigenizing the Co-operative Model: “While the co-operative is a relatively new construct in the context of European history, Indigenous peoples exhibited the characteristics and principles of Learning and Listening Will Help Canada’s Worker Co-op Sector Build Relationships With Indigenous Communities


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