Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled the eighth budget of the Liberal federal government ("Budget 2024") on April 16, 2024. Budget 2024 is comprised of eight chapters and three annexes...

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.

Following the 2024 Conference for Advanced Life Underwriting (CALU) Roundtable, the Canada Revenue Agency (the "CRA") released Document 2024-1007081C6 (the "Document"), dated May 7, 2024, addressing transfers of life insurance policies.

On May 15, 2024, the government of Québec adopted a new Regulation respecting the anonymization of personal information (the "Regulation").

On March 14, 2024, Statistics Canada released a new report concerning charitable spending in the 2022 year entitled Fewer charitable donors, less money donated in 2022.

In the case of Carr v. O'Reilly released on August 8, 2024, Jennifer Carr, the President of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada ("PIPSC").

As reported in earlier Updates (most recently in the October 2024 Charity and NFP Law Update), Canada introduced the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act (the "Supply

Statistics Canada released its report on data relating to non-profit organizations ("NPOs"), which for purposes of its report include both not-for-profits and charities...

On July 18, 2024, the Supreme Court of Canada denied leave to appeal from the decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal in Birhane v. Medhanie Alem Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church.

On March 14, 2024, the Charities Directorate of the Canada Revenue Agency ("CRA") released the Report on the Charities Program 2021 to 2022 (the "Report").

Following the release of Federal Budget 2024 on April 14, 2024, draft legislation to implement certain provisions of the Budget was introduced and, most recently, received second reading on May 22, 2024.

This will be relevant to charities and NFPs that have employees who work remotely.

Canada's federal commercial privacy laws currently "maintain sufficient data protection levels for personal data transferred from the [European Union]," according to the European Commission...

Alberta's privacy watchdog has overhauled its internal processes in a bid to tackle backlogs and expedite response times.

The Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector ("ACCS") released its Report #4, on October 9, 2024, subtitled "Towards a federal regulatory environment that enables and strengthens the charitable and

The Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector released its Report #4, on October 9, 2024, subtitled "Towards a federal regulatory environment that enables and strengthens the charitable and non-profit sector".

On November 19, 2024, the Department of Public Safety Canada ("Public Safety") held a stakeholder's engagement session, titled Criminal Code Authorization Regime Update, to inform the charitable/not-for-profit sector on developments relating to the authorization regime brought by Bill C-41.

The Canada Revenue Agency's ("CRA") webpage on electronic filing, which was last updated on October 18, 2024, outlines how tax information returns can be filed electronically, such as T4, T4A...

The UN General Assembly unanimously passed its inaugural resolution concerning AI on March 21, 2024.

In The Paul Sugar Palliative Support Foundation v. Creighton Estate, the Supreme Court of British Columbia was called on to interpret an unclear testamentary gift to determine whether the gift...