We recently received a copy of an Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) disclosure package from CRA for The Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation. Here is a brief description of the ATIP request: CRA ATIP final disclosure package relating to The…
We received a note from CRA that they have updated their T3010 forms to include the questions on the new qualifying disbursement regime. In other words, if a Canadian charity makes a grant to a grantee that is a non-qualified…
I really don’t like blogging on a charity twice in one day but hard to ignore a CBC headline “Former Trudeau Foundation head says past leadership misled Canadians on Chinese donation.” The article by Steven Chase and Robert Fife of…
With changes in May 2019 in which CRA removed about 10 years of public information from the Charities Listing, the differences between the CRA’s Charities Listing and the Blumbergs’ CharityData.ca portal have grown. This article will try to show you…
There is horrible news coming out of Kenya where a Christian religious cult told followers they would go to heaven if they starved themselves to death. About 89 bodies have so far been recovered. While this particular event may be…
Over the last decade, we have provided to the public CRA letters relating to a number of Canadian registered charity revocations. These letters from CRA cover many different grounds for de-registration. Some relate to relatively minor matters such as an…
Many Ontario non-profit corporations are struggling with how to deal with the Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010 (“ONCA”). Over 50,000 ONCA corporations will need to make changes to their governing documents to conform with the new ONCA by October 18,…
This week, I did a webinar for the Canadian Charity Law Association on The Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act (“ONCA”) – options for dealing with this important corporate change. While we usually don’t record and provide recordings of these events, here…
I just read an article from La Presse entitled «Ce don, c’est une bombe puante». It involved a number of interviews with former directors and mentors at the Trudeau Foundation. I was commenting earlier today that comparisons between WE Charity…
Apparently, on April 11, 2023, the Globe and Mail reports that the “Trudeau Foundation CEO, board resign over Chinese billionaire’s donation”. We blogged here a few weeks ago about the Trudeau Foundation and numerous concerns with its governance. Needless to…
The CBC has reported on March 14, 2023 in an article, Intelligence watchdog investigating CRA following Islamophobia claims, that the claims against CRA of Islamophobia will now be investigated by the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA). Presumably, NSIRA…
The CRA Charities Directorate will be doing webinars on Books and Records on April 19 and 20, 2023. These could be quite helpful for Canadian registered charities. Many charities don’t have adequate books and records. In addition to being a…
There was a recent decision on a motion in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice case of Muslim Association of Canada v. Attorney General of Canada, 2023 ONSC 1923 [PDF]. This decision is quite important, and the written reasons given…
I was very pleased to see Gabe Oatley from the Future of Good interviewing Sharmila Khare, the Director General of the Charities Directorate. This took place on March 22, 2023, and you can find the full interview here. I sure…
The Office of the Taxpayers’ Ombudsperson has just released a report “Charity Begins with Fairness: More to Explore on March 27, 2023. It is a fairly lengthy report that provides a lot of background and information on the Office of…
The Office of the Taxpayers’ Ombudsperson has just released a report, “Charity Begins with Fairness: More to Explore“. Also, there was a recent decision on a motion in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in the case Muslim Association of…
We recently received a number of copies of Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) disclosure packages. Here are the details of the copies we received with a brief description of the ATIP request: CRA ATIP disclosure package relating to The…
As an update to our previous article, we recently received Government of Canada a copy of an ATIP disclosure document entitled: Records relating to the mandate letter commitment to make anti-abortion charities lose their charitable status from November 30, 2021…
We recently received an ATIP disclosure package from CRA relating to Bill S-216, the Effective and Accountable Charities Act. This act was not passed and was replaced by the Federal Budget in 2022. Here is the document we received: All…
We received the requested Access To Information and Privacy (ATIP) disclosure package from CRA on March 12, 2023, regarding complete copies of T3010 Charity Information Return forms including complete information for all Schedules of three former charities namely Beth Oloth,…
As an update to our recent article providing Hockey Canada’s full audited financial statements for 2014 – 2021, we recently received an Access To Information and Privacy (ATIP) package containing Hockey Canada’s financial statements, including financial statements filed with the…
Over the last decade, we have provided to the public CRA letters relating to a number of Canadian registered charity revocations. These letters from CRA cover many different grounds for de-registration. Some relate to relatively minor matters such as an…
Corporations Canada has changed their database such that when you are ordering documents from Corporations Canada on a Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (“CNCA”) corporation, you can order financial statements in addition to other governance and filings of CNCA corporations. Here…
We have blogged about the Canadian Soccer Association and its failure to do its correct filings here Canadian Soccer Association not filing financial statements with Corporations Canada as required by the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (“CNCA”). Now six weeks after…