December 6, 2019
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.…
December 3, 2019
CRA will not alert public about charities that get funds from foreign states that support terrorism
Although it is not news many Canadian charities would be surprised that CRA is not prepared to disclose which charities received funds from countries…
November 30, 2019
It is giving season time again – some thoughts on effective giving
It is now the giving season. We will hear lots from charities on Giving Tuesday and perhaps you will be inundated with too many emails on Giving…
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…
November 13, 2019
The CRA has released an updated 2019 version of its T3010 Registered Charity Information Return
The CRA has released recently the 2019 version C of its T3010 Registered Charity Information Return. The major changes deal with replacing political…
November 3, 2019
Blumbergs’ Canadian Charity Law Boot Camp 2020
Blumbergs is pleased to announce that we will be hosting Blumbergs' Canadian Charity Law Boot Camp again on Monday April 20, 2020.…
October 28, 2019
ON government access to information disclosure on ONCA – so many pages and so little said
Since February 2019 there has not been any update from the Ontario government about ONCA coming into force. As we have noted before the Ontario…
October 25, 2019
ATIP request from Global Affairs Canada re: Canadian NGOs that applied for and received funding
Here is an Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) request made of Global Affairs Canada in 2018 relating to "List of all Canadian non-profit…
October 18, 2019
Interesting article by Press Progress on the True North Centre for Public Policy
Press Progress has written an article entitled Right-Wing Media Outlet Accredited For Leaders’ Debate is Also Registered as a Charity for Immigrants.…
October 15, 2019
CRA Sending Out T3010 Reminders
CRA is now sending out reminders to registered charities to file their T3010s on time. This reminders are going out roughly 3 months before the…
October 13, 2019
Blumbergs Canadian Charity Sector Snapshot 2017
We are pleased to launch our Blumbergs Canadian Charity Sector Snapshot 2017 with information on the Canadian registered charity sector…
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…
June 27, 2019
New CNCA fees beginning in 2020 – excellent for increased transparency
Next year there will be slightly revised fees for certain services relating to the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (“CNCA”) ie. the Federal…
June 27, 2019
Account changes for registered charities under CHAMP
Canadian charities now have more options for doing certain transactions online using the CHAMP system. Charities should look into…
June 9, 2019
Comparison of the CRA’s Charities Listing and Blumbergs’ Charity Data
With the recent changes in May 2019 in which CRA removed about 10 years of public information from the Charities Listing, the differences between the…
May 24, 2019
Dramatic changes to the CRA Charities Listing
CRA has recently updated its Charities Listing and the most notable change is the fact that they have reduced the amount of information available…
May 8, 2019
CRA’s Charities IT Modernization Project (“CHAMP”) set to roll-out in June
CRA is set to introduce its online system for organizations applying for charitable status. Once this system is available on June 1, 2019, paper…
April 30, 2019
Fundamentals of the T3010 and Transparency for Canadian Charities
Every year Canadian registered charities must file the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return with the Charities Directorate of CRA. In June…
April 23, 2019
CRA’s Charities Education Program Letter
In December 2017, CRA introduced a new program, the Charities Education Program ("CEP") which is aimed at helping charities comply with the…
April 23, 2019
Canadian Charity Legal Checklist by Mark Blumberg – April 2019
Here is our new Canadian Charity Legal Checklist. For those who are interested in reviewing legal compliance for their registered charity,…
April 23, 2019
Recent Dept of Finance Report on Federal Tax Expenditures 2019 is worth taking a look at
The Federal Department of Finance has recently released its Report on Federal Tax Expenditures: Concepts, Estimates and Evaluations 2019. For…
March 28, 2019
CRA announces upcoming changes to the T3010 and T2050, removing Political Activities
On March 15, 2019, CRA announced that there will be changes to the T3010 Annual Return and the T2050 Application to Register a Charity to account for…
March 25, 2019
Blumbergs’ Canadian Charity Law Boot Camp 2019 (SOLD OUT)
The Blumbergs' Canadian Charity Law Boot Camp will be held again on Monday April 8, 2019. This is a one-day boot camp on compliance and…
March 19, 2019
Canadian Federal Budget 2019 and its impact on non-profits and charities
Finance Minister Morneau delivered the 2019 Federal Budget today. Here is our article "2019 Canadian Federal Budget - How will it affect the…