April 6, 2020
Upcoming Webinars for the Canadian Charity Law Association
The Canadian Charity Law Association is delivering some upcoming webinars. Registration is free but space is limited. Topics are subject to change.…
March 29, 2020
CRA encouraging Canadian registered charities to file their annual T3010 using CHAMP online
CRA is now more actively encouraging Canadian registered charities to file their annual T3010 online. Makes a lot of sense in light of the current…
March 24, 2020
Filings with Corporations Canada during the COVID-19 crisis
Update on March 26, 2020 Corporations Canada has now advised us today that with snail mail they will be having at the moment a staff person come in…
March 22, 2020
Now might be a good time to look at utilizing CRA’s online services.
The Charities Directorate has announced that they are largely shut down at the moment. Many changes or filings can be done online and now may be a…
March 18, 2020
Registered Charity Q&A with Blumbergs – Friday March 20, 2020
With the Charities Directorate call centre suspended till April 5, 2020, we thought we would have a Registered Charity Q&A on Friday, March 20.…
March 17, 2020
A discount for Blumbergs online courses until April 1, 2020
Over the last year, Blumbergs has released 8 online courses. In case you are interested we have provided over the next 2 weeks a 50% discount…
March 17, 2020
Blumbergs releases new Canadian Charity Legal Checklist for 2020 by Mark Blumberg
Here is an updated Canadian Charity Legal Checklist by Mark Blumberg. It is a checklist for Canadian registered charities to assist them with…
March 14, 2020
Blumbergs’ Canadian Charity Law Boot Camp 2020 -now online
Blumbergs is pleased to announce that we will be hosting Blumbergs' Canadian Charity Law Boot Camp again on Monday, April 20, 2020. An easy enough…
March 8, 2020
List of foreign charities that have received a gift from the Canadian government is up to 5
The List of foreign charities that have received a gift from Her Majesty in right of Canada has now 5 foreign charities listed. Here is the list:…
March 8, 2020
Now 462 municipal or public bodies performing a function of government in Canada registered as qualified donees
The list of municipal or public bodies performing a function of government in Canada registered as qualified donees has grown to 462. It is…
March 8, 2020
CRA releases list of registered journalism organizations
Journalism has been under a lot of stress for many years. The Trudeau government has proposed a number of complicated and convoluted initiatives to…
March 8, 2020
CRA revoking dormant charities
We recently put online CRA letters to registered charities that had been revoked over the last few years as a result of audit. It was interesting…
February 16, 2020
Very surprising statistics from the Charities Directorate on recent charity registrations
I recently looked at a couple of ATIP documents from the Charities Directorate and I was quite surprised at the decline in the number of charity…
February 10, 2020
CRA replaces RC59 with Form AUT-01 Authorize a Representative for Access by Phone and Mail
CRA has said that they will no longer accept the RC59 Business Consent for Offline Access and now as of today one will need to use the new Form…
January 18, 2020
Universities outside of Canada that are qualified donees and fundraising in Canada
If a University is outside of Canada and on a special list maintained by CRA then that foreign university can issue Canadian "official donation…
January 5, 2020
CRA releases application form for qualified Canadian journalism organizations
The CRA on December 20, 2019, put out a press release on their incentives relating to journalism. As well CRA has released the T625 Application for…
December 5, 2019
Church of Atheism of Central Canada v. CRA – atheism is not a religion for Canadian charity purposes
A recent Federal Court of Appeal case Church of Atheism of Central Canada v. Canada (National Revenue) deals with a group promoting atheism who…
November 13, 2019
Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation is for now a qualified donee in Canada
There is a list called "foreign charities that have received a gift from Her Majesty in right of Canada". As the name suggests a group that gets a…
November 13, 2019
Increase in numbers of organizations in two qualified donee categories
There are a couple of important qualified donee categories that have increased in size - first the "List of municipal or public bodies performing a…
September 27, 2019
ONCA – does no update mean no ONCA?
I have been asking the Ontario government for months for an update on whether ONCA is coming into force and when. On September 25, 2019 I…
September 22, 2019
Blumbergs’ Canadian Charity Law Institute 2019
Join us on Monday October 7, 2019 in Toronto for the 8th Annual Blumbergs' Canadian Charity Law Institute. We will be featuring a number of…
September 21, 2019
CRA announces that it will still accept paper charity applications until September 30, 2019
CRA is encouraging non-profits that want to apply to become registered charities to use their new CHAMP system for the application process. …
September 14, 2019
Just launched our 3rd online course “Fundraising from Canada: A course for groups outside of Canada”
We have just launched our 3rd online course - this one is entitled "Fundraising from Canada: A course for groups outside of Canada". It is geared…
July 28, 2019
Making sense of CRAs new online Canadian charity application system
CRA in June 2019 brought in a new charity application system under their CHAMP modernization program. Here is our article Making sense of…