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Issuing official tax receipts

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
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  • May 16 2013

Canadian Registered Charities - Do you ever wonder what you can issue a tax receipt for, and in what amount? The CRA is aware of these questions and

Plain language guide to ONCA released

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • May 8 2013

The Ministry of Consumer Services has released a plain language guide to the new Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010 (the "ONCA") that is

Not for profits should review the Canadian Code of Advertising Standards

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 29 2013

Advertisements must be truthful. This applies to advertisements from not for profit organizations as well. For instance, the application of the

Trinity Global Support Foundation loses battle to keep its charitable status for now

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • April 25 2013

In March 2013, the Canada Revenue Agency agreed to delay revoking the charitable staus of May or Joe Fontana's Trinity Global Support Foundation

ONCA default by-law released!

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 23 2013

The Ontario government has released draft default by-laws for use under the Not-for-profit Corporations Act, 2012 ("ONCA"). These by-laws will serve

Poverty porn: effective (ethical?) marketing

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 5 2013

Using images of impoverished children to solicit funds is seen by some as a brilliant way to raise awareness and generate donations, while others

Social media tips for charities and other non-profits

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 3 2013

Most of us aren't experts on social media. We think we understand it - more or less - because we are on the receiving end of so much content. What do

The Canada Revenue Agency revokes the registration of marketplace ministries international as a charity

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 2 2013

Effective as of March 16, 2013, the registered charitable status of Marketplace Ministries International, a Scarborough-based charity, has been

First-time donor’s “super credit”

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 22 2013

With the tabling of the 2013 Federal Budget yesterday, the federal government announced the introduction of a temporary "First-time Donor's Super

Canadians need to reverse troubling trend on charitable giving: editorial

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • March 20 2013

While Canada, as a whole, is donating more, the number of individuals who are donating has decreased. Fewer charities are benefiting from the