The Blumbergs' Canadian Charity Law Boot Camp will be held again on Monday April 8, 2019. This is a one-day boot camp on compliance and standards issues for Canadian registered charities. You can register for the program here. This one-day workshop…
I recently wondered with this new Ontario government whether there was any change relating to the new Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporations Act (ONCA). It is supposed to come into force at the beginning of 2020. So I wrote to the Ontario…
Here is the new Canadian Charity Legal Checklist. For those who are interested in reviewing legal compliance for their registered charity they may find the checklist helpful.
The Companies Branch of the Ontario Ministry of Government and Consumer Services (“MGS”) is very heavily backlogged at the moment. Estimated times for processing applications that generally would have taken 6 – 8 weeks are now taking 4 or more months! …
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…
Recently author and fundraiser Gail Picco wrote an extensive article on the CWP decision entitled “How an Ontario Superior Court Decision Has Remade the Charity Sector, Failed Vulnerable Canadians and Why Some People Are Cheering?”
Understanding legal compliance for registered charities is not easy but Blumbergs is offering exciting new upcoming events in 2018 that will help. Fundamentals of the T3010 and Transparency for Canadian charities On Friday June 1, 2018, Blumbergs’ will be holding a…
If you are an Ontario non-profit corporation under the OCA you might find our article on ONCA helpful: 20 Ways We May Be Able To Help You With ONCA.
There are over 50,000 Ontario non-profit corporations under the Ontario Corporations Act. With the Ontario Government’s recent announcement that the new Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporations Act (ONCA) is being targetted to be brought into force in 2020, these Ontario non-profit corporations…
Over the last 10 or more years, we have published over 2500 blog posts. Except for a few avid readers, that might be a little overwhelming so we have started to create a directory of some of the top resources…
Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act (ONCA) was passed in 2010 and supposed to come into force in July 2013. The Ontario government has announced that they were “working to bring ONCA into force as early as possible, with a target of early 2020”. …
As we have noted before the Cutting Unnecessary Red Tape Act, 2017 (Bill 154) has passed and today it received Royal Assent. It will make a number of changes to the current Ontario Corporations Act and also the upcoming Ontario Not-For-Profit…
On November 1, 2017 the Cutting Unnecessary Red Tape Act, 2017 (Bill 154) passed. It still requires Royal Assent before coming into force. Bill 154 made changes to ONCA (which will probably only come into force years from now) but made…
The Ontario government is moving to pass the Cutting Unnecessary Red Tape Act, 2017. The Act does many things but importantly for Ontario non-profits “The proposed amendments would enable the future proclamation of the Not-for-Profit Corporations Act (ONCA). The proposed amendments…
Here is Blumbergs' comments on the Ontario Government Proposal to Allow Compensation of Directors of Charities Without Court Order that were submitted to the Ministry of the Attorney General today.
The Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (“CNCA”) permits a not-for-profit corporation that is incorporated under another act (such as a provincial non-profit act) to continue (import) to the CNCA provided that the other act permits the continuance. This allows a not-for-profit corporation…
We are pleased to announce the Blumbergs' Canadian Charity Law Institute 2017 will be on Monday October 16, 2017. Further details will follow. Registration and early bird information is here.
For Ontario non-profit corporations the next few years will be challenging from a corporate law point of view. Here is our article “Fed up with ONCA yet? Consider skipping it altogether and moving to the Federal CNCA“. Furthermore, Blumbergs has…
A notice from Corporations Canada of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (formerly Industry Canada) entitled “Last chance for not-for-profits to transition” has been sent out reminding non-profits that if they are still under the old Canada Corporations Act that…
For some the mention of ONCA causes anxiety or anger. Never fear – help is here! Here are “20 Ways We May Be Able To Help You With ONCA as We Go Into 2017“.
We are proud to present the Blumbergs’ Snapshot of the Ontario Charity Sector 2014. The data subset used is the CRA's 2014 T3010 data but only for registered charities based in Ontario. A large part of the Canadian registered charity sector is based…
The Liberal Government has made some noises about modernizing charity law. Who could be opposed to modernization? As there is no idea as to what “modernization” means, it has opened up all sorts of calls for changes to charity law…
Blumbergs has just released a new website with over 10 years T3010 information for each Canadian registered charity. The site is a beta being tested but if you are interested you can visit the website at www.charitydata.ca It is free…
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…