The Changes

For years the Spirit of Co-operative living has slowly slipped away from the members of my housing co-op. Now, we are wining back the hearts of our members.

Our worker co-op (http://cantrusthosting.coop) seeks to create an affordable, full-service web-hosting platform tailored to the needs of co-operative, non-profit and charity organizations for whom access to such Canadian-based services is cost prohibitive. Our worker-owner members can greatly reduce future development and maintenance costs for our clients by collectively managing Drupal-based, template-driven websites.

Why do we want to do this? Our clients want Canadian-based website hosting they can trust and our co-op members want to pool their efforts to pass savings onto our collective clients. Together, we are creating solid web-hosting infrastructure in Canada and keeping jobs/money in our local community. It's win-win-win!

We live in a brainwashed society. Just look anywhere and you'll see ads. Consume, consume, consume. Democracy is reduced to a pacifying term. (were you asked to vote re: our troops going to Afghanistan? Cutbacks to seniors programs, mental health?) Capitalism doesn't work unless someone is exploited. Frankly I'm sick of  living for self and I'd like to see people worse off than me get a "no strings" break

We live in a brainwashed society. Just look anywhere and you'll see ads. Consume, consume, consume. Democracy is reduced to a pacifying term. (were you asked to vote re: our troops going to Afghanistan? Cutbacks to seniors programs, mental health?) Capitalism doesn't work unless someone is exploited. Frankly I'm sick of  living for self and I'd like to see people worse off than me get a "no strings" break