There was a recent Globe and Mail article “CRA typo causes a multimillion-dollar mistake for the Hewitt Foundation“. This article is a reminder of the importance of the T3010. It is used by many different groups, not only regulators. This…
Recently the Future of Good had an article written by Gabe Oatley entitled Investigation: Ontario Trillium Foundation ‘Muzzled’ Charities with Changes to Advocacy Policy. The article raises two primary questions – does the OTF refuse to fund groups who are…
Here is the Blumbergs Snapshot of the British Columbia Charity Sector 2021. We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2021 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. The database covers about 30,354 of the approximately…
We recently received a copy of an Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) disclosure package from CRA for The Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation. Here is a brief description of the ATIP request: CRA ATIP final disclosure package relating to The…
We received a note from CRA that they have updated their T3010 forms to include the questions on the new qualifying disbursement regime. In other words, if a Canadian charity makes a grant to a grantee that is a non-qualified…
I really don’t like blogging on a charity twice in one day but hard to ignore a CBC headline “Former Trudeau Foundation head says past leadership misled Canadians on Chinese donation.” The article by Steven Chase and Robert Fife of…
There are lots of criticisms of the Trudeau Foundation. Some are ridiculous, but that does not mean that there are not some serious problems with the governance of the Trudeau Foundation. For those who think that the Foundation does some…
With changes in May 2019 in which CRA removed about 10 years of public information from the Charities Listing, the differences between the CRA’s Charities Listing and the Blumbergs’ CharityData.ca portal have grown. This article will try to show you…
There is horrible news coming out of Kenya where a Christian religious cult told followers they would go to heaven if they starved themselves to death. About 89 bodies have so far been recovered. While this particular event may be…
Over the last decade, we have provided to the public CRA letters relating to a number of Canadian registered charity revocations. These letters from CRA cover many different grounds for de-registration. Some relate to relatively minor matters such as an…
Under the Income Tax Act (Canada) certain Indigenous groups can be recognized as qualified donees as “Municipal or public bodies performing a function of government”. In most cases, pursuing qualified donee status as a municipal or public body performing a function…
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…
The latest Trudeau Foundation filings with Corporations Canada are here: Federal Corporation Information Federal Corporation Information – 386524-0 Beware of scams and other suspicious activities. See Corporations Canada’s alerts. Note This information is available to the public in accordance with legislation…
I looked at the last few weeks, and the Trudeau Foundation was being searched quite frequently on CharityData.ca. So, I thought I would look at the last year to see which charities were the most searched and how long was…
I just read an article from La Presse entitled «Ce don, c’est une bombe puante». It involved a number of interviews with former directors and mentors at the Trudeau Foundation. I was commenting earlier today that comparisons between WE Charity…
Apparently, on April 11, 2023, the Globe and Mail reports that the “Trudeau Foundation CEO, board resign over Chinese billionaire’s donation”. We blogged here a few weeks ago about the Trudeau Foundation and numerous concerns with its governance. Needless to…
There was a recent decision on a motion in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice case of Muslim Association of Canada v. Attorney General of Canada, 2023 ONSC 1923 [PDF]. This decision is quite important, and the written reasons given…
The Office of the Taxpayers’ Ombudsperson has just released a report “Charity Begins with Fairness: More to Explore on March 27, 2023. It is a fairly lengthy report that provides a lot of background and information on the Office of…
The Office of the Taxpayers’ Ombudsperson has just released a report, “Charity Begins with Fairness: More to Explore“. Also, there was a recent decision on a motion in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in the case Muslim Association of…
We recently received a number of copies of Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) disclosure packages. Here are the details of the copies we received with a brief description of the ATIP request: CRA ATIP disclosure package relating to The…
As an update to our previous article, we recently received Government of Canada a copy of an ATIP disclosure document entitled: Records relating to the mandate letter commitment to make anti-abortion charities lose their charitable status from November 30, 2021…
We recently received an ATIP disclosure package from CRA relating to Bill S-216, the Effective and Accountable Charities Act. This act was not passed and was replaced by the Federal Budget in 2022. Here is the document we received: All…
We received the requested Access To Information and Privacy (ATIP) disclosure package from CRA on March 12, 2023, regarding complete copies of T3010 Charity Information Return forms including complete information for all Schedules of three former charities namely Beth Oloth,…
As an update to our recent article providing Hockey Canada’s full audited financial statements for 2014 – 2021, we recently received an Access To Information and Privacy (ATIP) package containing Hockey Canada’s financial statements, including financial statements filed with the…