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Yesterday's 2015 Federal Budget, tabled by Finance Minister Joe Oliver, contained a few measures aimed at helping charities and their donors. A summary of those measures is set out below for our readers.

The Federal Government announced on May 29, 2017 that it will match donations by individual Canadians to registered Canadian charities that are responding to the famine crisis in northeast Nigeria...

Companies incorporated under the Canada Corporations Act (Part II) were required to be continued under the new Canada Not-For-Profit Corporations Act.

The overall impact of these changes will bring Ontario's lobbyist registration system more in line with the federal system.

Employment and Social Development Canada has aptly summarized the complex topic of social finance as "an approach to managing money that delivers both a social benefit and an economic return for investors".

Not-for-profit ("NFP") corporations in Canada have until October 17, 2014, to apply for a certificate of continuance required by the new Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (the "Act") before they become subject to administrative dissolution.

On June 5, 2013 the Ontario government introduced in the legislature Bill 85, the Companies Statute Law Amendment Act, 2013. Bill 85 seeks to amend various corporate statutes, including the still-unproclaimed Not-for-profit Corporations Act, 2010 (the "ONCA").

Registered charities, including charitable organizations, private foundations and public foundations, have significant obligations with respect to maintaining their books and records.

In most cases, loyalty points will not be subject to the deemed disposition on death found in subsection 70(5) of the Income Tax Act (Canada) because they are unlikely to be capital property.

Today's world is unquestionably moving online. This reality has changed the way Canada's not-for-profits and charities operate.

On Aug. 17, 2021 the Ontario government announced that the Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act (ONCA) will finally be proclaimed into force effective Oct. 19, 2021, (the proclamation date), almost 11 years

Charities bring valuable perspectives to public discourse through their services to Canadians and interactions with the most vulnerable.

Many charities and not-for-profit organizations simply could not exist without the dedicated work of volunteers. While true "volunteers" are not subject to the protections afforded by employment-related legislation, organizations need to consider some of the potential risks which may arise with the use of volunteers.

An Ontario court decision rendered on July 16th may completely change the rules about political advocacy by Canadian charities.

The Province has recently published a default by-law for Ontario not-for-profit corporations in draft form on the Ontario Ministry of Consumer Services website.

On October 19, 2010, the Ontario Government passed Bill 65, the new "Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010" (the NFPCA). The stated purpose of the NFPCA is to modernize the legal framework for Ontario’s 46,000 provincially incorporated not-for-profit corporations (NFPs).

In Mississauga Majors v. Provincial Women's Softball Association, the Applicant, the Mississauga Majors Baseball Association, a not-for-profit corporation that offers baseball and softball leagues exclusively for youth and young adult females (the "Majors"), sought a declaration from the court directing the Respondent.