"Good Food & Community" is what the Muskoka North Good Food Co-op is all about. This multi-stakeholder co-op is located in Huntsville, Ontario and boasts more than 1,700 proud member-owners with more people joining every day. It's a one-stop shop for fresh, local and healthy fare, supporting farmers and producers in the region and across [...]
Stone building purchased by NSCC for affordable housing in Pictou. Over the past 18 months, the Nova Scotia Co-operative Council (NSCC) has purchased 86 units of affordable housing, now owned by the community rather than someone interested only in the bottom line. Many of these properties were for sale by private owners, terrifying [...]
The Gulf Islands Food Co-op was created in 2018 to foster inter-island co-operation and develop new resources and practical supports for food producers and consumers on Galiano, Mayne, Pender and Saturna islands. (the Southern Gulf Islands SGI) The co-op's main goals are to help sustainably increase island food production, food security and resilience by encouraging [...]
What do you do when you live in a small town, rely on a particular fitness facility for its "women-only" exercise program, the place keeps changing hands, and the final owner realizes she can't make a go of it and closes everything down? Well, if you are woman from Kincardine, Ontario, who wants to stay [...]
Yeva Skalietska with her book - You Don't Know What War Is At 5:10 am on February 24, 2022, Yeva Skalietska, then 12, woke up to the sound of explosions which her Granny said were missiles being fired at Ukraine by Russia. "I'd grown up hearing about war, but I'd never been in [...]
Finally some good news in the affordable housing sector! Thom Armstrong, CEO of CFHBC Thom Armstrong CEO of Cooperative Housing Federation of BC joins us in studio at Vancouver Co-op Radio to discuss the latest developments in BC's ongoing urgent concern for affordable housing. The highlights are the British Columbia provincial government, under [...]
Robin, Corinne and Danielle during the Each For All interview Allied Community and Co-operative Shared Services (ACCESS) is "a shared service nonprofit co-operative specifically formed to provide professional administrative back-office support for social purpose organizations". The newly started nonprofit co-operative provides professional administrative back-office support for social purpose organizations, like co-ops and non-profits. [...]
The Each For All team sat down for our annual retrospective on the past year. It was another full year over current events coverage through a co-operative lens. Summer festivities with the 2022 Each For All team (Robin, Joshua, Dale, Sandy and Blue) Listen in for some of the highlights from the past [...]
The Canadian Worker Co-op Federation annual conference was held in Vancouver, BC. This year’s theme was Collective Power. In this podcast we bring you recordings of the Ignite Presentations from a few of the worker co-operative participants of the conference. Chris Nichols from Wood Shop Workers' Co-op receiving acknowledgement for the worker co-op’s supportive [...]
Why is the Solidarity Economy important to BIPOC communities? What does the Solidarity Economy have to offer BIPOC communities & other equity-seeking communities? This was the question posed as part of the Canadian Worker Co-operative Federation's keynote forum at the annual conference. This was recorded Thursday, November 17, 2022. Our sincere thanks to the [...]
