Halifax's Glitter Bean Café is one example of a queer-centric worker co-op's importance to both members and customers.

Indigenous communities in Canada were demonstrating the characteristics and principles of co-ops long before colonization.

• WINNIPEG: Tuesday, July 18th
• SASKATOON: Wednesday, August 2nd

Connect with CWCF staff and other local co-ops, as well as co-op developers, educators & allies.

Thanks to the CreateAction youth employment program, Ashley Igboanugo is joining CWCF as a paid Intern with CWCF's JEDDI Business Conversions Project until November 2023.

CWCF has awarded a total of $10k to four organizations for projects that "support racial justice in the worker co-op sector in Canada via promotion, development and/or education initiatives."

• Union Co-op Initiative
• Transform Practice
• Whole Woman Network
• Libra Knowledge & Information Services

November 14th to 16th, 2023

Quebec City, QC

le Monastère des Augustines

Keynote Speaker: Bruno Roelants

From left to right: Juliet 'Kego Ume-Onyido - BIPOC Board Advisor; Janielle Maxwell - JEDDI Business Conversions Project Coordinator; Paul DeVillers - former BIPOC Board Advisor; Hazel Corcoran - Executive Director

CWCF's Justice, Equity, Diversity, Decolonization & Inclusion (JEDDI) Business Conversion Project has won the first-ever JEDI Initiative of the Year Award from Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada.

CWCF has awarded a $1,000 grant to Coco Einarsen of Montreal for the production of a one-night drag performance hosted at the new solidarity cooperative bar, Coop Bar Milton-Parc.

Un trio de la Colombie-Britannique aux habiletés variées, mais complémentaires, s’est réuni pour lancer la CoActive Developments Worker Co-op.

• SSG Report: Co­-operatives as an Antidote to Economic Growth



• Co-operators: 2022 Annual Report

• SMU Online Panel, June 29: Accelerating Worker Ownership, A Strategy Session on Co-operative Development in the Digital Economy & Beyond

• International Day of Co-operatives: July 1, 2023 "Co-operatives for Sustainable Development"

• Association of Cooperative Educators Institute Conference: August 7-10, San Juan, Puerto Rico

• Article: Where do the ICA's co-operative principles stand on the environment?