There has been a new update to Ontario accounts on the OBR. The ONe-Key ID account (which many of you have been using to access a corporation’s profile on the OBR) has been replaced with a My Ontario Account. You…
Here is a presentation delivered by Mark Blumberg for CharityVillage on October 19, 2023. Top Ten Compliance Issues for Canadian Registered Charities Summary: A great deal has been written about legal compliance surrounding charities in Canada. Much of that material, however,…
On Tuesday last week, we had our Blumbergs’ Canadian Charity Law Institute. We had a very good presentation by two Ontario government lawyers dealing with recent changes to ONCA in Bill 91. During questions, there was a question about how…
The Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act (“ONCA”) came into force on October 19, 2021 and groups have until October 19, 2024 to bring themselves into compliance with the ‘new’ act. For some groups, this may seem like a long time, but…
This two-part course will be on Tuesday, August 15 and Wednesday, August 16, 2023. Both sessions will be from 12:00 – 4:00 PM EST. You can register here: Fundamentals of Running a Canadian Charitable Organization/Operating Charity – Online There are…
We recently updated our course titled Fundamentals of Running a Private or Public Foundation in Canada. This seven-hour course focuses on compliance issues with an emphasis on those specifically relevant to running a private or public foundation that is a…
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…
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…
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…
So far, there is nothing too definitive from the CRA on their approach to the Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act (“ONCA”) and changes that will be made to governing documents to bring Ontario non-profit corporations into alignment with ONCA. Unlike the…
Over the last few months, there have been many newsletters and communications dealing with the recent corporate changes in Ontario that came into effect on October 19, 2021. There is widespread misunderstanding about these changes that have left some groups…
As many know, as of May 15, 2021, the Ontario Annual Return for OCA/ONCA non-profit corporations can no longer be filed with CRA (as part of the T3010 filing) and must be completed through the new Ontario Business Registry (OBR)…
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 just launched an online copy of the Blumbergs’ Canadian Charity Law Institute 2022 (Recorded October 3, 2022); Every year, Blumbergs has its Blumbergs’ Canadian Charity Law Institute. This year, for the third time, we did a “mini-institute” – very…
We just launched a new course titled Being a Director of a Canadian Non-Profit or Registered Charity; the rewards, pitfalls, and obligations of trying to help your community by being a director of an NPO or charity. Here is 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…
Recently Ontario passed Bill 9, Non-Profit Sector Appreciation Week Act, 2021. Now in Ontario, the third week in February is non-profit appreciation week. On the plus side, this could be a focal point for organizing some events that show appreciation…
There are approximately 6,300 private foundations in Canada. Private foundations have been growing at a higher rate than any other type of Canadian registered charity. They have assets of around $100 Billion. Although there are some differences between a private…
In a recent Toronto Star article entitled “Ontario government making fixes to troubled online business registry” it notes; The Ontario government is taking care of business by cranking repairs of its troubled online corporate registry into overdrive. As first disclosed…
In 2009 we wrote a short note entitled “Canadian Charities Based in Ontario and Grants to Qualified donees – Ontario is a little different” which discussed how Ontario charities could not just make grants to qualified donees which may be…
The Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee (OPGT) and its Charitable Property Program will be dealing with certain charitable aspects of the ONCA transition. Here is a presentation by the OPGT entitled “The Role of the Public Guardian and…
CRA has information on its website about how Canadian registered charities must act within their legal objects and how those objects must be legally and exclusively charitable. Objects of a non-profit corporation are usually set out in the corporation’s constating…
The new Ontario Not-for-profit Corporations Act (ONCA) came into force on October 19, 2021. In 2013 we launched our first ONCA Suitcase in which we consolidated available ONCA related information in one PDF document. We have created a new ONCA…