There is some confusion about NUANS searches and incorporation under the new Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (“CNCA”). When a member of the public is going to be incorporating a CNCA corporation, the Corporations Canada Online Filing Centre allows for…
We are pleased to see that some of the documents that we are receiving from the Ontario government are now formatted correctly. ONCA and the new Ontario Business Registry came into effect on October 19, 2021. To our surprise, when…
If you are a Federal non-profit corporation under the CNCA, then you can search your organization’s corporate profile at Search for A Federal Corporation. It will show you what documents have been filed with Corporations Canada. At the same place,…
We just launched a new course titled Objects/Purposes for Canadian Charities and Changes to Your Objects This course will discuss the importance of objects for a registered charity and will be particularly relevant in three circumstances: 1. When you are a…
We are advocates for transparency but privacy is also an important value. Does the public deserve to know the home address of each of your board members? We think probably not. When being asked to list an address for service…
The Ontario Public Guardian and Trustee have just released the new Not-For-Profit Incorporator’s Handbook that deals with new Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporations Act (ONCA) and charities. The revised Handbook is important as the last Handbook issued a number of years ago…
The Ontario government has launched a new modern Ontario Business Registry system today, October 19, 2021. The new Ontario Business Registry offers simpler and faster access to many services and documents for organizations that are registered, incorporated, or licensed to…
The new forms for the Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporations Act (ONCA) were released on October 18, 2021. ONCA and the new Ontario Business Registry (OBR) will be launched at 9am today. Here are the ONCA forms as of October 18,…
I recently received this note from the Ontario Government when I signed up for a mailing list relating to the new Ontario Business Registry (OBR) which will replace the ONBIS. The OBR will be launched at the same time as…
We have created a new online course, Should Our Canadian Business Establish a Corporate Foundation? This course will discuss when it may be advantageous for a Canadian business to launch a corporate foundation. Whether you are a large bank, small…
I was in a session with the Ontario government today related to user feedback for the new Ontario Business Registry (OBR). In that session, they advised that the new Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporations Act (ONCA) is targetted now to come in…
Did you know that there are: 31,462 active CNCA corporations (As of September 1st 2020) 3,364 incorporations last year alone: (Fiscal year 2018-2019) At this rate, we will have double the number of Federal corporations in less than 10 years. …
Even with the Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act (“ONCA”) looming, we are still seeing recently incorporated non-profits that are set-up under the Ontario Corporations Act (“OCA”). Here is an article on some of the reasons why this is generally not a good…
For those who read our blog you will know that we are very pleased with the new Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (“CNCA”) that came into effect in 2011. It is a very easy to use modern corporate act that allows a tremendous amount…
As you probably know if you are interested in a Federal corporation (non-profit or otherwise) you can easily search the Corporations Canada website. This gives you lots of information on Federal non-profit corporations including the name, Corporation Number, Status, which…
Being a director of a Canadian registered charity is an important task and this article may be helpful in explaining some of the expectations and requirements of the position. Download PDF version There are approximately 600,000 Canadians who voluntarily serve…
As we noted earlier on “Ontario government making changes to edge towards bringing in ONCA” article, the Ontario government has been working since September 14, 2017 on passing legislation called The Cutting Unnecessary Red Tape Act, 2017 that not only…
Corporations Canada has service standards for the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (“CNCA”). For example, an online incorporation is 90% of the time done either the day of filing or the next day. Other incorporations are handled within 5…
The work that charities do is extremely important to our society, so it is vital that various stakeholders, such as the public, the media, the government, donors, employees, boards, donors and others. have access to key information on what the…
We recently contacted Corporations Canada regarding the updated statistics on continuances and dissolutions under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (‘CNCA’). Apparently in March there has been an increasing number of entities that have transitioned to the CNCA. Here are the current figures:…
In June 2014, which is almost 2 years ago, I put in a request to CRA to receive a copy of certain information on the Non-Profit Organization Risk Identification Project (NPORIP). On April 11, 2016, I received over 220 pages of documents…
Many groups are operating under the impression that they are an Ontario corporation when in fact they were never actually incorporated as an Ontario, Federal or other provincial corporation. These types of entities are typically considered an unincorporated association or a trust, and do…
Under the CNCA since it came into force in October 2011 there have been 2700 incorporations and 1800 continuances. This is according to numbers provided by Industry Canada. Over the next year there will be a large number of Federal…
Today the Ontario government announced the release of the plain language guide to the ONCA. Here is the announcement: “Sent to you on behalf of David Brezer, Director of the Consumer Policy & Liaison Branch, Ministry of Consumer Services. I…