The Toronto Star is now focusing on the glitchy launch of the Ontario Business Registry (OBR) in their article Doug Ford’s glitchy online business registry has major law firms telling clients to avoid Ontario. The byline is “Premier Doug Ford’s…
Under the old Ontario Corporations Act (OCA), you had a letters patent and perhaps supplementary letters patent or two. In addition, you had by-laws. With the Ontario government bringing Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporations Act (ONCA) into force on October 19, 2021,…
We often have people contacting us because they want to “update their by-law” because of the new Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporations Act (ONCA). Unfortunately, for most organizations, ONCA is not a time to “update” your by-law but much more is needed. …
Here is our new article 20 Ways We May Be Able To Help You With ONCA. It discusses ways in which our law firm may be able to assist non-profits in Ontario in dealing with the new Ontario Not-for-profit Corporations…
Here is our new article Options for dealing with ONCA for Ontario non-profit organizations. It discusses some of the options available to Ontario non-profit corporations now that the Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporations Act (ONCA) has come into force.
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…
You can search for an Ontario non-profit corporation using the Ontario Business Registry (OBR). Here is a link to the OBR. Once you click the link you will need to scroll down and click on the blue icon that says…
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 long-delayed Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010 (“ONCA”) has officially come into force today, October 19, 2021. ONCA provides a modern legislative framework for Ontario’s not-for-profit corporations and charities. ONCA generally now applies automatically to all existing non-profit corporations incorporated…
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,…
The Ontario PGT has recently put out some interesting information relating to the implementation of ONCA when it is a “charity” or “registered charity”. The most important takeaway relates to the extent that the PGT will be involved (or not…
With the launch of the new Ontario Business Registry (OBR) in Ontario on October 19 you should obtain your company key. Also, those Ontario corporations who had annual returns due from May 15, 2021 through October 18 can file those…
Some Ontario corporations have provisions in their by-laws that allow for virtual meetings. This is particularly important during COVID. However, some have provisions that prohibit virtual meetings. The Ontario government has emergency provisions that allowed for virtual meetings for…
We received a notice from Service Ontario relating to filings prior to ONCA coming into force on October 19, 2021. Essentially any filings done by mail under the OCA need to be completed by September 17, 2021 even though ONCA…
It took many years but finally, it looks like new Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporations Act (ONCA) and the Ontario Business Registry will be launched on October 19, 2021. We will have more on this at our upcoming Blumbergs’ Charity Law Institute…
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…
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…
A number of regulations for the new Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporations Act (ONCA) have been published today in the Ontario Gazette. This raises the question of whether ONCA will come into force on July 1, 2021? It is possible but impossible…
I asked MGCS for an update on ONCA and received the following on May 5, 2021: We are targeting to proclaim ONCA as soon as possible and will update the ministry’s ONCA website here once further information is available. …
Registered charities under the Ontario Corporations Act will be affected by some changes when filing their T3010. CRA will no longer be using the Form RC232, Corporations Information Act Annual Return for Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations. This will affect about 20,000…
The Ontario government is providing some temporary legislative changes to the Ontario Corporations Act such that irrespective of your governing documents an OCA corporation can hold virtual meetings until December 31, 2021. Here is the note from the Ontario…
On April 21, 2021 we had our Blumbergs’ Canadian Charity Law Boot Camp 2021. It is the second Boot Camp that we have conducted online and our tenth Boot Camp in total. Those who missed the course can catch the…
I am not sure how many people are aware but the Ontario government is doing a consultation on the Ontario Corporations Act and ONCA. The deadline for responding is February 8, 2021. Ostensibly the title sounds like it is focused…
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. …