Computer consulting, multiple operating systems, networking technologies and computer based training.
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Computer consulting, multiple operating systems, networking technologies and computer based training.
Amaranth & Associates provides products, consulting and education programs and related services for recycling and composting. Our products and services are a result of ongoing research and development. These include establishment of Canadian and International education programs, demonstration projects and private sector ventures.
Anarres works for progressive organizations, small businesses, and non-profits on customized web development sites and services (primarily content management systems and e-commerce sites) along with server and network administration. They offer a range of smaller web services and consulting as needed.
Baseline provides distinctive, effective communications that meet your needs by providing you with quality consulting, design, copywrite and production services in print, displays, the web and other electronic media.
Specializing in Organically Grown, GMO- free & Environmentally Safe Products. Canadian Worker - Owner Co-operative since 1983. Big Carrot offers a range of great services for our customers, including cooking classes, free nutritional store tours and free weekly lectures on health and the environment,. Our customer service department is available to answer your questions.
Brierwood Design Co-operative Ltd. are a software services and consulting firm that specialises in developing cutting-edge custom applications for our clients.
Care Force was founded in the Annapolis Valley in 1990 as a home care organization providing quality care. In 2006 workers united to make it the only home care co-op in the area. Our goal is to provide effective, accessible and preoffessional care so clients can maintain their highest level of independence
Co-op Ventures offer training and co-op development to strenghten and grow the Canadian co-op movement. Their approach is to leave all skills and knowledge in the community they serve.
We are the planet’s only co-operative sex store. Democratically run, worker owned and operated, our approach to sexuality is one of respect, openness, humour, communication and responsibility. We are service and community oriented; accessible and disability-positive.
Construction of pallets.
The Cooperative's objectives focus on promoting the local Montreal and Quebec independent and emerging music and arts scenes. Through its friendly personnel, its cultural events, its musical identity and its conscientious manners, Café Chaos offers a stimulating but relaxed environment.
Provides high quality wholesome food at fair prices, supporting environmental and economic sustainability. We support organic and local industries and goods that promote a healthy lifestyle.
Devco offers consulting, workshops, and training for individuals, groups, and organizations to start, and develop your new co-op.
The Dominion is a monthly paper and website published by an incipient network of independent journalists in Canada. It aims to provide accurate, critical coverage that is accountable to its readers and the subjects it tackles. The Dominion is incorporated as a multi-stakeholder co-op where readers, contributors, and editors can become members.
Enviro-Safe are a worker cooperative, commercial, non-toxic cleaning company based in Winnipeg. They offer benefits to our workers and members and create an environment that fosters dignity and self-worth.
Extension Community Development Co-operative (ECDC) is a not-for-profit worker-owned consulting business incorporated in June, 1991. ECDC members and associates have extensive experience in working with community-based organizations to facilitate cooperative and coordinated approaches to social and economic development.
First Ownership Co-op's mandate is to: Spread the word about the co-operative option by making co-op information readily available; Provide co-operative development services; and Undertake research to support co-operatives and the co-op sector.
Operating five seafood processing plants; pioneered quality initiatives in the industry through dockside product grading systems; exports crab and groundfish to the U.S., Japan, Taiwan, Sweden, Germany and Canada.
The Fourth Pig fulfills contracts in sustainable building design, education and construction, natural building materials design and installation, and renewable energy installation. Fourth Pig provides consultation and training for clients in the green building and alternative energy sectors.
Free Range Worker Co-operative employs workers in support of socially responsible agriculture by organising and supporting the activities of Beyond Factory Farming in accordance with its vision and mission. See www.beyondfactoryfarming.org
Ganesh is a solidarity co-operative based in Toronto that provides consulting services to non-profit housing providers and agencies assisting them develop and operate affordable and supportive housing.
Is a cooperatively owned and run organic farming collective whose home is in Aldergrove. Formerly known as Glorious Garnish and Seasonal Salads we became an official workers co-op in 2006. We produce over thirty varieties of salad greens as well as peas, beans, potatoes, carrots, beets, onions, garlic, fennel, fruits, herbs, flowers and much more! We sell directly to restaurants, farmers markets (under the name Organic Farm Connection), and through our CSA program.
The Greenhouse Co-op is a bedding plant and garden centre that operates as a seasonal business in St. Peter’s, Nova Scotia. The business produces a wide range of bedding plants (flowers and vegetables), hanging baskets, and planters. In addition, it carries a large variety of nursery items: trees, shrubs, soil conditioners, and fertilizers. Three founding members established the Co-op in 1987 as a worker co-op.
Working to make anarchism a real part of Calgary's urban milieu by establishing a cafe/bookstore for people to meet, discuss, plan, organize, link-up, exhibit, watch, listen and learn; committed to serving as a focal point for the dissemination of collectivist principles and to creating a positive example of the constructive potential of collectivised labour, dual power, and anarchist principles.
Eclectic array of services from training courses in computer literacy, furnace and small engine repair, and life skills, to co-op and First Nations health and economic development consulting.
Publishers of two city magazines in Saskatchewan: Regina's prairie dog (http://www.prairiedogmag.com) and Saskatoon's Planet S (http://planetsmag.com/).
Infrastruture.Net Management Software Development and Hosting Services provide automated solutions to help organisations manage their facilities, including hospitals, schools, colleges, government and corporate workplaces. By linking computer generated floorplans to SQL databases our clients can better manage space utilisation, occupancy details, lease portfolios and maintenance management activities via the internet.
Culturally diverse team serving a wide variety of ethnic food Saturdays (May thru early Oct) at the James Bay Community and Moss Street Markets in Victoria.
Just Us! is Canada’s first Fair Trade coffee roaster, founded in 1995. It is built on the three pillars of quality products, social and environmental responsibility. We are proud to be a worker owned cooperative. Our mission is “People and the planet before profits.” We are primarily a wholesale coffee roaster, but also carry tea, sugar and chocolate products – all Fair Trade and organic.
The Kootenay Bakery Cafe Co-op is currently three businesses rolled into one. We operate a retail cafe as well as bakery production manufacturing. We also manage a small delivery company that takes our products as well as five other Kootenay businesses out of our region going both east and west of us.
Fair trade organic "Cocoa Camino" cocoa and chocolate; sourced from co-ops of cocoa and sugar family farms in developing countries. La Siembra Co-operative was founded in 1999 with the goal of reconnecting consumers with farmers in a sustainable manner. Our name La Siembra means “sowing” or “planting time” in Spanish. It is also a symbol for the seeds of change that our co-operative is sowing through its fair trade, educational and co-operative activities.
La Tierra Co-op, located in Gatineau (Québec) and Ottawa (Ontario), roasts and distributes gourmet coffees from our partner indigenous peasant cooperatives. We assist them in developing and growing their coops under a 100% fair trade model, only paying above fair trade for our coffee.
Mondragon is a political bookstore and vegan restaurant located in Winnipeg’s historic exchange district. Inspired by Mondragon in Spain we are organized as a workers collective. We have no manager, and all worker members, regardless of starting skill or seniority, earn the same rate of pay. We call ours a “participatory” workplace, after the participatory economic model developed by co-authors Robin Hahnel and Michael Albert, and we feel that this structure is consistent with libertarian socialist principles.
Family-based medical practice and walk-in clinic.
A multi-cultural health broker is a bilingual and bicultural member of the community who: provides linguistic interpretation and cultural clarification; helps families access services and resources within the health and social service system; connects families to cultural community groups and resources; and supports community development.
The Natural Burial Co-operative will establish natural burial cemeteries, supply natural burial products and memorials, that will preserve green space and provide dignified and environmentally responsive burial options to consumers. As Natural Burial sites are opened across the country, members will be offered the first chance to choose a grave site.
Natural Cycle Worker Co-op strives to promote positive transportation choices by making appropriate technology and resources available for individuals to live healthier lives. Natural Cycle is composed of a number of enterprises including a courier service, a bicycle retailer, a bicycle mechanic service, a bicycle component fabrication and design company, and a bicycle components distribution company.
Community food store in Winnipeg: organic wild rice, wild blueberries, whitefish and pickerel from aboriginal co-ops in rural areas, moccasins made by neighbourhood aboriginal women, and bannock baked fresh in the store each day.
Sewn in the heart of Canada's largest urban Aboriginal community, the artisans of Northern Star Worker Co-op create unique Star Blankets in the Aboriginal tradition, to honour, respect and bless both the giver and receiver alike.
Organic Planet Worker Co-op is committed to supplying Winnipeg with fresh produce, groceries, gluten-free goods, non-toxic health and beauty products, and providing an organic and vegan deli.
ParIT provides information technology services using software that everyone can share and modify. ParIT is a supporter of a "participatory economy".
Planet Bean began roasting coffee in downtown Guelph in 1997. Planet Bean has two coffee bars serving all kinds of excellent coffee beverages created by our highly skilled team of baristas. Fresh roasted coffee beans are also available. Our company also has a thriving wholesale business which supplies cafes, restaurants, gourmet and speciality grocers, businesses, churches, universities and schools.
The Sky Dragon Community Development Co-operative is a non-profit worker-coop dedicated to the goals of progressive social and environmental change. We've created a multi-use community centre in downtown Hamilton where people can explore their individual and collective power for change.
Consulting and research, with a focus on co-operatives and housing co-op development.mark.goldblatt@coopscanada.coop, nick@soundadvice.coop
Sustainability Solutions Group provides high-quality, innovative sustainability consulting services. These include sustainability audits, review of current practice, strategic and implementation planning, and research. The co-op's mission is to create and engage in inspired endeavours that are of net benefit to humanity and the ecosystems in which we are embedded.
Bike shop for commuters, couriers and other urban cyclists.
The Co-op contributes to increasing the quality of life, community health and food security on BC islands by creating an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable BC islands’ food infrastructure that grows, preserves, markets, distributes and sells Vancouver Island Coastal Region Good Food Promise food. The business is designed as a local foodservice distribution business that also provides Value Chain Co-ordination Services—making sure that local producers get a fair share for their produce.
The Vancouver Renewable Energy Co-op (VREC) is a registered cooperative. Our mandate is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, other pollution and non renewable energy by installing affordable renewable energy systems in the greater Vancouver area.
The Vasa Cooperative is a worker-owned cooperative focused on bringing you the most ethically produced
garments and textile products in the world, both in terms of the fabrics we use and through our
commitment to fair trade principles. We source our labour locally whenever possible, and only deal with
suppliers who share our commitment to fair trade principles and environmental protection.
Food, retail.
Uniting 2.5 million Canadian workers, pursuing social and economic justice for working people; the Congress is the national voice of the labour movement, but we speak for all workers and their families, in Canada and beyond.
A dynamic Atlantic Canadian co-op wholesaler which offers a wide range of agricultural, food, general merchandise and petroleum products and services to 135 co-ops and their 200,000 co-op members.
CHF Canada is the nation-wide umbrella organization for co-op housing and Canada's link with co-op housing around the world. The organization exists to unite, represent and serve the co-op housing community across Canada.
A movement of approximately 39 caisses populaires (credit unions) throughout francophone New Brunswick; offers insurance services, a venture capital fund, audit services, and acts as an association of other types of co-ops.
The federation of the eleven Coopératives de développement régional (CDRs) in Québec. CDRs promote the co-op model and offer assistance to co-op entrepreneurs. The Fédération coordinates the network of CDRs and is the voice of the CDRs to the Québec government and to other organizations.
Réseau seeks to promote the development of worker co-ops in Quebec, notably by promoting the model, providing experience to youth, and supprt to co-operatives. Our services include: training and advisory services, networking and mentoring, referral to resource people, government relations, etc. We are a coordinator of one of the most dynamic projects in youth co-operative entrepreneurship: the Youth service co-operatives.
Ontario Worker Co-op Federation (OWCF) helps in the development of new and existing worker co-ops. It also lobbies governments on behalf of established worker co-ops, and disburses information about the benefits and goals of cooperatively owned businesses. (Not a CWCF member.)
The Québec Federation of Forestry Cooperatives gather and represent, in shared interest areas, the totality of forest workers cooperatives, worker-shareholder cooperatives and solidarity cooperatives present in the forest sector of Québec.