Building a democratic Canadian economy around Worker Cooperatives, Community Land Trusts, and the progressive use of Anchor Institutions.
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Community Wealth Candidates retweeted
Today, we celebrate the International Day of Co-operatives.
Co-operatives across Canada are building bridges every day. 🌎
Behind every point on the map is a co‑operative strengthening local communities together.
🔗 Explore the Map: crm.canada.coop/en/civicrm/m…
Community Wealth Candidates retweeted
Urban Affairs Review journal has published an online symposium on #CommunityWealthBuilding
Read all ten essays at urbanaffairsreview.com/commu…
And find the introductory piece here 👉 democracycollaborative.org/w…
Community Wealth Candidates retweeted
A new report finds wealth in Canada concentrating to levels that evoke the Gilded Age.
As dynastic fortunes continue to balloon, so too does capital’s leverage over politics and public life: jacobin.com/2026/03/canada-w…
Community Wealth Candidates retweeted
Scotland has passed the first national community wealth building legislation.
We've pushed for a Canadian federal CWB agenda long before Trump attacked our sovereignty.
Now more than ever, Canada should be building robust community wealth coast to coast.
canadiandimension.com/articl…
Community Wealth Candidates retweeted
"...the Scottish Community Wealth Bill is a beacon not just for lawmakers far and wide but for everyone wishing to unlock collective power in communities and workplaces..."
Our Comms Director @JoanaRamiroUK featured in @ScotNational today.
Full story 👉 thenational.scot/politics/25…
Community Wealth Candidates retweeted
Isn't it time ? It's our time now.
ENDORSEMENT!
We're thrilled to endorse @avilewis for leader of the federal NDP.
We're especially glad see Avi's bold platform includes two of our top federal priorities since we started in 2021: a Right of First Refusal for workers and a National Worker Ownership Fund!
Community Wealth Candidates retweeted
Over 3/4 of Canadian small and mid-sized business owners are about to retire.
A plan to save lots of these companies by turning them into worker cooperatives is a VERY good idea.
ENDORSEMENT!
We're thrilled to endorse @avilewis for leader of the federal NDP.
We're especially glad see Avi's bold platform includes two of our top federal priorities since we started in 2021: a Right of First Refusal for workers and a National Worker Ownership Fund!
Community Wealth Candidates retweeted
"Now, top executives earn a year’s worth of worker pay in just over eight working hours."
Happy New Year!
We'll be endorsing municipal candidates across the country in 2026.
We need a Canadian economy structured very differently.
It's time for community wealth, not absurd oligarchic inequality.
ctvnews.ca/canada/article/to…
Community Wealth Candidates retweeted
True in Canada too!
When the rich fight, we've got more tools than taxes to get things done for working people.
Progressive procurement, cooperatives, public banks, & more.
"This kind of community wealth building is known as 'pre-distributive' economics."
newstatesman.com/spotlight/2…
Community Wealth Candidates retweeted
Excellent article in @CDN_Dimension.
Canada's economy is a rentier economy.
"This hurts everyone. Well, everyone who isn’t a banker."
Growing an economy of leeches is a terrible goal.
Time to build democratic community wealth instead.
canadiandimension.com/articl…
Community Wealth Candidates retweeted
Great points here.
$2 trillion is Canadian assets are changing hands due to retiring entrepreneurs.
We should be expanding policy to pass these companies down to their WORKERS.
That means employee ownership trusts AND worker cooperatives!
bcpolicy.ca/2025/10/06/trust…
Community Wealth Candidates retweeted
CLTs are quietly revolutionizing Canadian housing. With 45+ CLTs nationwide offering permanent affordability, community ownership & land off the speculative market, 1 question remains: is there political will to support the momentum?
Read our blog for more
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Community Wealth Candidates retweeted
📢 New report alert!
A Case for Community Land Trusts in Canada by Dr. Kuni Kamizaki highlights how #CLTs offer a much needed shift in Canada’s #housing system. More than a report, it's a call-to-action for policymakers, advocates & communities alike.
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Community Wealth Candidates retweeted
New Community Wealth Building research in England:
"Our findings indicate that CWB can have a positive impact on employment over a relatively short period of time, which disproportionately benefits people with disabilities and other disadvantaged groups."
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Community Wealth Candidates retweeted
"So far, the plan for Canadians to own more of our economy is pretty thin...We need more ambitious use of federal loan guarantees and co-investment to facilitate the acquisition of (SME) businesses by employees, co-ops and communities."
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socialcapitalpartners.ca/can…
Community Wealth Candidates retweeted
UofW researchers "are the first in Canada to prove that financial landlords are behind rising rents...they increase rents more sharply in neighbourhoods predominantly housing low-income & racialized people."
Community Land Trusts not Corporate Extraction.
uwaterloo.ca/news/financial-…
Community Wealth Candidates retweeted
Great news!
In recent years @TapestryCapital has generated over $100 million in community bond investments in Canadian non-profits & cooperatives.
Now its created Weave so investments can be made across dozens of community bond campaigns at once!
This will scale amazing work.
Big news for Canada's social finance space 📣
Weave Community Capital Fund is here – the first national fund lending to community bond issuers.
Backed by Realize Capital Partners, this $30M fund helps scale affordable housing, clean energy, & more.
🔗 weavefund.ca
Community Wealth Candidates retweeted
Our @prestonlabour council is supporting Plungington Community Land Trust to develop 21 new social rented properties in democratic ownership in partnership with the local church community.
Modern CLT's emerged from the US Civil Rights Movement to improve access to housing for African American families.
We are proud to join this movement here as another element of the #PrestonModel.
Plans to convert the grade-II listed church in Brook Street into new social housing back in 2021 have now lapsed.
Preston City Council has handed the group hoping to turn it into apartments a £70,000 boost towards the prep needed. 🏠🏗️⛪
blogpreston.co.uk/2025/06/pl…
Community Wealth Candidates retweeted
Nice coverage by CBC on how coops & BC's Community Land Trust make lasting, affordable housing at impressive scale.
"For many young families like this one, it's a rare opportunity to afford to live in an area where they would otherwise be priced out."
youtube.com/watch?v=0sHpufO9…
