The Latest News From Canada's Worker Co-op Sector
September 2021 Volume 13 Issue 9
In This Issue
  • Creating Websites Just the Starting Point for Weaver Digital Design and Storytelling, by Kenzie Love
  • Multicultural Health Brokers Co-op: Podcast
  • Democratic Member Control at the Foundation of Worker Co-ops, by Kenzie Love
  • Le pouvoir démocratique exercé par les membres : au cœur des coopératives de travail, par Kenzie Love
  • CWCF 2021 Virtual Conference: Day Three Preview
  • Aperçu de la troisième journée du Congrès virtuel de la FCCT
  • Upcoming CWCF Events: Webinar on Indivisible Reserves, Virtual Conference, Worker Co-op Finance 101, and WC Governance 101
  • Shop in Solidarity
  • SSG Makes Open Call for Copy Editors and Proofreaders
  • Reminder: CMC Survey on Covid-19
  • Rappel: Sondage de CMC sur la Covid-19
  • New Webinar Series from Co-operatives First
  • Freedom Dreams Fall Workshop Series 2021
Creating Websites Just the Starting Point for Weaver Digital Design and Storytelling
By Kenzie Love

Motivated by a desire to help a variety of small businesses who share its values, Weaver's four members have worked not just to create or redesign websites, but to tell stories with them as well.

Multicultural Health Brokers Co-op: Podcast
Each for All What began as a project bridging the gap between Chinese families and the health care system has grown into a worker co-op comprised of more than 100 cultural brokers serving 23 different ethnocultural communities at all stages of life...
Democratic Member Control at the Foundation of Worker Co-ops
By Kenzie Love

Unlike some of the other seven co-op principles, democratic member control is a unique feature of worker co-ops.


Le pouvoir démocratique exercé par les membres : au cœur des coopératives de travail
Par Kenzie Love

Contrairement à certains des sept autres principes coopératifs, le contrôle démocratique des membres est une caractéristique unique des coopératives de travail.

CWCF 2021 Conference: Day Three Preview

Day Three of CWCF's bilingual 2021 Conference, Building Better Together, will feature workshops on worker co-op financing and marketing.


Aperçu de la troisième journée du Congrès de la FCCT

La troisième journée du Congrès national virtuel de la FCCT, Mieux construire ensemble, proposera des ateliers sur le marketing et le financement des coopératives de travail.

Upcoming CWCF Events

Shop in Solidarity

Co-operation between co-ops is one of the co-op movement’s seven principles, and with that in mind we’ve developed a simple way to bring this principle to life: Solidarity Shopping.
SSG Makes Open Call for Copy Editors and Proofreaders

Sustainability Solutions Group (SSG), a worker co-op, is looking for copy editors and proofreaders to assist with editing various types of documents related to their climate change mitigation and adaptation work. If you’re interested, please see this link.
Reminder: CMC Survey on Covid-19

As part of a study to better understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the co-operative sector in Canada, CMC is inviting co-op organizations to participate in a survey. To date there have not been a lot of worker co-op responses, with only five from worker co-ops in Quebec, and five from those in the other provinces.CWCF strongly encourages its members to participate.

Rappel: Sondage de CMC sur la Covid-19

Dans le cadre d'une étude visant à mieux comprendre l'impact de la pandémie de COVID-19 sur le secteur coopératif au Canada, CMC invite les organisations coopératives à participer à un sondage. Jusqu'à maintenant, il n'y a pas eu beaucoup de réponses par les coopératives de travail. Seules cinq coopératives de travail au Québec ont répondu et cinq dans les autres provinces. La FCCT encourage les coopératives de travail à participer dans ce sondage.


New Webinar Series from Co-operatives First

Starting September 23, Co-operatives First is launching the Your Way, Together webinar series! Are you sick of attending webinars where you are talked at instead of engaged? In these one-hour sessions, join in the conversation to discuss co-operative opportunities in different industries with special guests, and network with your peers!

Freedom Dreams Co-op Fall Workshop Series 2021
Freedom Dreams Co-operative Education is hosting a monthly webinar series exploring the co-operative movement through the multifaceted lens and experiences of Black, Indigenous and People of Colour. Freedom Dreams Co-operative Education Program is an online and place-based workshop series that shares knowledge about co-operatives and the solidarity economy from a Black, Indigenous and Person of Colour (BIPOC) perspective.  CWCF's Justice, Equity Diversity, and Inclusion ("JEDI") Committee is pleased to help promote this workshop series.  Please consider signing up, and help spread the word!
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 
(403) 276-8250