Community Wealth Candidates

Building a democratic Canadian economy around Worker Cooperatives, Community Land Trusts, and the progressive use of Anchor Institutions.

[Community Wealth Candidates @CWCandidates]

Landlords are destroying community staples through land value extraction.
Where they exist, Community Land Trusts are doing the opposite and saving them.
We need to enormously expand the latter and shrink the former.

[Community Wealth Candidates @CWCandidates]

HAPPY WORLD COMMUNITY LAND TRUST DAY!
Started by Black American farmers, CLTs are now core to Community Wealth Building globally, providing PERMANENT affordable housing and local economic democracy.
The CLT movement is rapidly expanding across Canada.
With much more to come.

[Community Wealth Candidates @CWCandidates]

@HMcPhersonNDP Heather ran a good faith and cordial campaign, and is classy here again.

[Community Wealth Candidates @CWCandidates]

Congratulations @avilewis, whom we endorsed, on winning the NDP leadership on the first ballot!
We were thrilled Avi directly supported Community Wealth Building in his campaign.
We hope this leads to a stronger push for CWB in Canada at a time when it is needed more than ever.

[Community Wealth Candidates @CWCandidates]

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!

[Jacobin @jacobin]

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: https://t.co/MHdDM6E9qs

[Community Wealth Candidates @CWCandidates]

Great to see @avilewis, whom we've endorsed, covering Community Land Trusts.
CLTs have become core to building community wealth.
They bring local economic democracy and *permanent* affordable housing together.
And they work from Toronto to Whitehorse. 👍
https://t.co/QRasXaeGci

[Community Wealth Candidates @CWCandidates]

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.
https://t.co/N2x1fBsMvc

[Democracy Collaborative @DemocracyCollab]

"...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 👉 https://t.co/HGhUIIkGTr

[Community Wealth Candidates @CWCandidates]

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.
https://t.co/N2x1fBsMvc

[Community Wealth Candidates @CWCandidates]

Scotland has passed the world's first NATIONAL community wealth building legislation!
An important milestone.
Let's do Canada next.

[John Swinney @JohnSwinney]

Scotland just became the first country in the world to pass a Community Wealth Building law.

Here’s how it will help local communities, local businesses and create local jobs. 👇

[Community Wealth Candidates @CWCandidates]

The NDP especially can't be "characters in search of a plot."
Mainstream parties are entrenching failed neoliberalism.
But we need bold alternatives to neoliberalism now more than ever.
Those alternatives should be rooted in economic democracy and community wealth.

[Canadian Dimension @CDN_Dimension]

Doly Begum’s shock defection highlights the NDP’s challenges, but Avi Lewis is emerging as the candidate with the progressive vision to steer the party into the future, positioning him to rebuild trust, clarify the party’s purpose, and energize the base. https://t.co/KeVmBHpaTE

[Mark Power @markattableone]

Isn't it time ? It's our time now.

[Small Is Beautiful Ontario @SIBeautiful_ont]

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.

[Community Wealth Candidates @CWCandidates]

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 @CWCandidates]

Canada can't keep drifting to a failed neoliberal right in a US-style duopoly.
We need to disrupt this status quo.
And we need a robust community wealth agenda.

[Canadian Dimension @CDN_Dimension]

Mark Carney promised “elbows up” politics. Instead, he’s narrowed Canada’s choices and deepened the neoliberal consensus. With a byelection looming in University–Rosedale, Colin Bruce Anthes argues why a strategic NDP vote matters well beyond Toronto. https://t.co/HcLoOhG4BR

[Small Is Beautiful Ontario @SIBeautiful_ont]

"Now, top executives earn a year’s worth of worker pay in just over eight working hours."

[Community Wealth Candidates @CWCandidates]

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.
https://t.co/Gi1hWYu2Kz

[Community Wealth Candidates @CWCandidates]

Amazing news from Niagara!
The Community Land Trust of Niagara will has been approved for its first major project with 83 units.
And we're proud to say the land trust is chaired by St. Catharines councillor Caleb Ratzlaff, one of our candidates from 2022.

[Community Wealth Candidates @CWCandidates]

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."
https://t.co/pvRw5emybo

[Community Wealth Candidates @CWCandidates]

Great news!
Parkdale People's Place will be developed by the Parkdale Neighborhood Community Land Trust @parkdaleland!
A massive win for community ownership and organization.
https://t.co/A8mrdxfWM7

[Community Wealth Candidates @CWCandidates]

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."
https://t.co/pvRw5emybo