The Social Economy Podcast

Since starting in 2018, Montreal-based Startop, a nonprofit, has worked with hundreds of immigrant women throughout Québec to take their business ideas and show how they can turn them into social economy enterprises.

The Patriotes de Québec Gaelic football club promotes Irish culture, gets Québec City-area adults active in a new sport, and integrates people from around the world into a close-knit club that does more than just play football.

In a domestic scene where independent cinemas throughout Canada are being increasingly squeezed out by larger chains, Québec City nonprofit Antitube's Cinéma Beaumont has created an enviable niche in the community.

Most of us have tools we rarely use which take up space in our closets, garages, and basements. A group of social economy entrepreneurs in Rimouski took a different approach: creating a “library of things” called L’Outillerie.

Based in Ormstown in the Montérégie West region, The Gleaner, a newspaper in existence since 1863, pivoted to an innovative community nonprofit format when the media chain owning it wanted to shut down the publication.