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Kincardine Ladies Fitness Co-op

May 8th, 2023|0 Comments

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, [...]

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Allied Community and Co-operative Shared Services (ACCESS)

January 10th, 2023|0 Comments

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 [...]

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Each For All 2022 Year End Retrospective

January 3rd, 2023|0 Comments

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 [...]

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CWCF 2022 – Worker Co-op Ignite Presentations

November 29th, 2022|0 Comments

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 [...]

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CWCF Keynote Forum – What does the Solidarity Economy offer equity seeking communities?

November 22nd, 2022|0 Comments

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. [...]

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BC is set to Make Housing Central in municipal election

October 11th, 2022|0 Comments

Thom Armstrong, CEO of CFHBC Thom Armstrong, CEO of the Co-op Housing Federation of BC, speaks on the number 1 issue on voter’s minds as they step into the ballot boxes for the municipal elections - Affordable Housing.  One way to temper our speculative housing market is to [...]

African Heritage Food Co-op

August 9th, 2022|0 Comments

The African Heritage Food Co-op (AHFC)  was formed so that Black communities in Western New York State, including Niagara Falls and Buffalo, can take ownership of their food system, create jobs and use resources to improve the health and well-being of residents. For too long, the economic and political structures [...]

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BC Co-ops receive $2 million provincial investment

August 2nd, 2022|0 Comments

On July 26, 2022, the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction put out a press release announcing an unprecedented investment in the BC Co-op sector. It outlines how a $2 million dollar investment from the province was matched by others in the co-op sector. The funds will go to [...]

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Abiwin Housing Coop – Pride Week in Ottawa 2022

July 26th, 2022|0 Comments

Abiwin Housing Co-op Pride Abiwin Housing Co-op is a not-for-profit housing co-op located in downtown Ottawa with 98 units. They sum up their history as follows:    "Abiwin was founded by a group of LGBTQ2+ members in the 80s to provide safe and secure housing for the gay [...]

New Brunswick Media Co-op

July 4th, 2022|0 Comments

When a single company, J.D. Irving Limited, with vast interests in forestry, agriculture, food processing, oil and petroleum, transportation and shipbuilding, also owns the major English-language daily newspapers, plus a large number of weeklies, chances are reporting that is critical of its industries and supportive of workers, the environment and [...]

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Aboriginal Housing Management Association (AHMA) with Margaret Pfoh (CEO)

June 21st, 2022|0 Comments

Margaret Pfoh, Chief Executive Office of Aboriginal Housing Management Association On Canada’s National Indigenous People’s Day, June 21st, we were pleased to host Margaret Pfoh, the Chief Executive Office of Aboriginal Housing Management Association.  For over 25 years, the Aboriginal Housing Management Association (AHMA) has been working tirelessly to [...]

Rotating Savings and Credit Associations

May 10th, 2022|2 Comments

A Rotating Savings and Credit Association (ROSCA) is a group of individuals who act as an alternative financial institution. Each person contributes money towards a common fund, and the funds rotate through members at regular intervals. The member who borrows the funds will eventually repay their portion back into the [...]

Vancouver’s East End Food Co-op Closing

April 26th, 2022|0 Comments

On April 15/22, news broke that Vancouver's  East End Food Co-op (EEFC) will be closing its Commercial Drive storefront on May 15 after 50 years of serving the community. The co-op itself will remain in place for the time being. Its future will be discussed at the AGM in June. [...]

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Community Media – Community Radio w/ Freya Zaltz

April 12th, 2022|0 Comments

The elusive Freya Zaltz, who has few photos online however has a massive impact on the radio. It was great to catch up with friend of the station, friend of the show and friend to all community radio stations in Canada, Freya Zaltz. In addition to working for [...]

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Lesson from MEC sale – What’s Fair in an Insolvency Process?

April 5th, 2022|0 Comments

We are grateful for the Canadian Centre for the Study of Co-operatives at USkask for their enduring support for our program and for their permission to rebroadcast their lecture series on our show.  Dr. Anna Lund, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta. Professor Lund presented at [...]

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Westman Communications Group

March 22nd, 2022|0 Comments

Westman Communications Group is a consumer co-op that formed in 1977 to bring cable television to southwestern Manitoba and since then has grown to serve 54 rural communities and 25,000 members. Its head office is in Brandon. Besides offering all the latest technology from high-speed internet, TV, streaming and phone [...]

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Mornington Communications Co-operative

March 22nd, 2022|0 Comments

Mornington has been serving rural residents in Perth County, Ontario, since 1919. It began as a municipal telephone system using operators and party lines. In 1964 direct dial technology came on board and in 1994, Mornington Municipal Telephone System became Mornington Communications Co-operative. With a head office in Milverton and [...]

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War in Ukraine! Housing sector update from CHFBC

March 1st, 2022|0 Comments

When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, we reached out to members of the Ukrainian Canadian community for their reaction and guidance as to what all of us, as members of civil society, could do to make a difference. Eugene Lupynis, board member of the Ukrainian Community Society of [...]

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