The Latest News From Canada's Worker Co-op Sector
In This Issue

  • Conference Overview, by Kenzie Love
  • Reflections on CWCF's Annual Conference, by Joy Emmanuel
  • CWCF AGM News, by Kenzie Love
  • Wood Shop Workers' Co-op Receives Worker Co-op Best Practices Award
  • CWCF Welcomes New Worker Co-op Members
  • Ambient Bookkeeping Offers a Winning Formula for Any Balance Sheet, by Kenzie Love
  • Interactive Short Course: Taking Action on Principle 6
Conference Overview
By Kenzie Love

Note that the available Conference presentations are available 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.
Reflections on CWCF's Annual Conference
By Joy Emmanuel

Once again, CWCF’s annual conference was a source of inspiration and renewal, bringing co-operators together from across the country to focus on the multiple ways we can work in our co-ops and our communities to support the growth and health of the worker co-op sector.
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.

CWCF's Annual Report can be found here.

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

 
Wood Shop Workers’ Co-op received the award for their supportive employment practices, provision of meaningful employment, and their desire to achieve social and economic justice particularly for the most marginalized.

Ambient Bookkeeping Offers a Winning Formula for Any Balance Sheet
By Kenzie Love

Many bookkeepers face an unappealing choice between the lack of autonomy in working for a large firm and the hassles associated with going it on their own. Launched in April of 2020, Saskatchewan’s Ambient Bookkeeping aims to provide its members with greater control over their labour than is typical in the sector by employing the worker co-op model.



CWCF Welcomes New Worker Co-op Members
By Kenzie Love

CWCF is pleased to welcome Curbside Community Farms Cooperative of Victoria and Louder Than Ten Workers' Co-operative of Vancouver.
Interactive Short Course: Taking Action on Principle 6

Join fellow leaders in an interactive short course to take a deep dive on the topic of inter-co-operation from diverse perspectives - from the role of associations and federations to business partnerships and supply chains, to the development of new co-operatives. The course is being offered virtually January 24 and 25, 2023, from 10:00 am-3:30 pm EST. The course fee is $300 CAD, plus tax. Register here.

Attendees of the CWCF-CoopZone 2022 Conference are eligible for a reduced registration rate of $200 plus tax. Please contact Communications and Member Services Manager Kaye Grant at communications@canadianworker.coop to receive the link for this rate.
The Canadian Worker Co-operative Federation (CWCF) is a national, bilingual grassroots membership organization of and for worker co-operatives, related types of co-operatives (multi-stakeholder co-ops and worker-shareholder co-ops), and organizations that support the growth and development of worker cooperatives. CWCF's e-newsletter is available free of charge to anyone with an e-mail address and an interest in worker co-operative developments in Canada. Please send any comments and suggestions, or news about your co-op, to:  

Kenzie Love
Editor of CWCF Newsletter 
Fo.(403) 276-8250