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The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated that our communities must be self-sustaining rather than reliant on volatile global value chains. Co-operatives bring resiliency self-determination to local economies. (Shutterstock)

August 3, 2021

Canada’s small businesses could be saved by converting them to co‑operatives

Marcelo Vieta, University of Toronto

The co-operative business model needs to be seriously considered and nurtured as a viable response to closing companies and lost jobs as a result of the pandemic.

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May 21, 2020

Tonight we riot? What Nintendo’s ‘revolutionary’ video game misses about worker liberation

Dan Musil, Western Sydney University; Katherine Gibson, Western Sydney University; Marcelo Vieta, University of Toronto, and Stephen Healy, Western Sydney University

Rather than dreaming about revolutionary fantasies, the movement for worker liberation is proceeding with a quiet grassroots revolution.

Post-pandemic, co-operatives can scale up to promote the values of mutuality, inclusivity, economic justice and organizational democracy towards a transitioned Canadian economy. (Pixabay)

April 19, 2020

Canada’s co‑operatives: Helping communities during and after the coronavirus

Marcelo Vieta, University of Toronto and Fiona Duguid, Cape Breton University

Co-operatives can and should be key to Canada’s economic rebuilding and rethinking — now and following the COVID-19 pandemic.

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