Tag: Canada
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Quebec’s Paramedic Cooperatives
Quebec’s ambulance sector in the 1980s was a tangle of government contracted private companies, with low job quality and service, causing hospital congestion. Workers organized, regulation increased, and many company owners decided to sell rather than face the new reality. The Confédération des Syndicats Nationaux saw an opportunity and between…
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Coopérative de solidarité de Pikogan
The Coopérative de solidarité de Pikogan, founded in 2009, is worker-owned cooperative in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, in the northwest of Quebec. The cooperative has around 90 workers and is affiliated with the Abitibiwinni First Nation, which has a population of around 1,000. The cooperative’s origin is intertwined with other community ownership efforts.…
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Coopérative forestière de la Gaspésie
The Coopérative forestière de la Gaspésie was formed in 2013, as the merger of three smaller forestry cooperatives. The merger came in response to a new regulatory regime and allowed the local companies to reach a scale to compete for contracts with outside firms. In 2020 there were around 140…
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Coopérative forestière Ferland-Boilleau
The Coopérative forestière de Ferland-Boilleau in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec was founded in 1963 as the Syndicat Forestier Ferland-Boilleau, after 30 families lost their logging concession to a large company. The group changed their name from syndicat to chantier in the 1970s, and then to cooperative in the 1980s. The…
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Boisaco
Boisaco is a partnership owned by two worker cooperatives – the forestry co-op COFOR, and a sawmill co-op UNIASCO – and a solidarity cooperative made of community shareholders. The partnership formed in 1985 in the small town of Sacré-Cœur in the Upper North Coast of the St. Lawrence, after the…
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Coopérative forestière St-Dominique
The Coopérative forestière St-Dominique in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec was founded in 1945, originally as a labor union, the Syndicat de travail de St-Dominique du Rosaire, which shared machinery for the clearing of land, and began to focus on logging. In 2004 it acquired a subsidiary in silviculture, Verendrye,…