We had a blast driving across the rocky Island of Newfoundland, off the Atlantic Coast of Canada, to the 2025 Convention and AGM of the ‘NL Federation of Co-operatives (NLFC)’, September 26-27, 2025[1], in Corner Brook. Jimmy, Ken, and I, enjoyed each other’s company and we shared a deep love for the cooperatives we are part of. We were confident in contributing meaningfully to the cooperative movement, and we were hopeful for overcoming the setbacks we had just experienced in our own cooperatives….

Read more here…. An abbreviated version – ‘Cooperative Identity At Stake – How do we develop communities of compassion, care, and love? – is in print for issue 210, Spring 2026, of the ‘Communities’ magazine.