Canadian Charity Law

Charity law in Canada is a mixture of federal and provincial legislation plus common law and trust law. It is important that registered charities understand their compliance requirements. If you wish to understand your charity law obligations you can retain our law firm by contacting us.

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CRA releases list of registered journalism organizations

Journalism has been under a lot of stress for many years.  The Trudeau government has proposed a number of complicated and convoluted initiatives to ostensibly support journalism.  One of them was to have a qualified donees category of “registered journalism…

CRA revoking dormant charities

We recently put online CRA letters to registered charities that had been revoked over the last few years as a result of audit.   It was interesting to see a number of charities that were revoked just because of being dormant. …

Class action lawsuit certified for GLGI donation scheme

The Canadian Lawyer has an article Class action certified for “sham” charitable donation tax scheme.  It discusses the class action lawsuit against a number of defendants dealing with the “Global Learning Gifting Initiative Charitable Donation Program” and how that class…

Some initial issues for a new Canadian grantmaking foundation

Here is our article “Some initial issues for a new Canadian grantmaking foundation“.   Hopefully, it will provide some ideas as to issues that new (and perhaps existing) foundations should be considering.   Also, here is our more comprehensive Canadian Charity Legal…

Australian Wildfires and Canadian donors

We all see from the media the terrible wildfires in Australia.  Some Canadian donors or charities have wanted to assist with the relief and recovery efforts as well as research and prevention.  Here are a few thoughts specific to the…

Mormon church has US$100 billion dollar fund and questions asked about it.

The Washington Post recently had an article entitled “Mormon Church has misled members on $100 billion tax-exempt investment fund, whistleblower alleges” The Washington Post article notes: A former investment manager alleges in a whistleblower complaint to the Internal Revenue Service…

CRA terminates some municipalities as qualified donees

I know the title sounds a little harsh but I recently checked a list that the CRA maintains of municipalities that are “qualified donees” or groups that are able to issue official donation receipts and yes CRA has “terminated” some municipalities like…