Photo Essays
The Art of Work in Works of Art
(July 19, 2021) We are, once again, at the start of the work week. But more than that. We just (as in society, all of us together) might be on the edge of the biggest change in work practices since the digital revolution in the 1990s. At a recent editorial meeting…
Features
Episode 8 – David Macfarlane talks about his new book Likeness
(July 28, 2021) David Macfarlane, one of Canada’s most celebrated writers, has just released a new book. Likeness: Fathers, sons, a portrait is a told through…
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Huge tuition increases at Memorial University put the levers of inequality on centre stage
(July 19, 2021) Memorial University of Newfoundland was created after Newfoundland and Labrador joined Confederation with Canada in 1949. Then-premier Joey Smallwood declared that…
News
Charity email click rates show significant increase in 2020: UK report
(July 21, 2021) The click rates of charity email increased significantly in 2020, according to the UK Data and Direct Marketing Association’s Email…
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Perception of Racial Injustice in Canada Measured by Global PR firm
(July 14, 2021) One year after the killing of George Floyd and the nation’s own identification of the systemic racial injustice faced…
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Calls to suspend the Canadian Catholic Church’s charitable status coming from people working in the sector
(July 1, 2021) After the discovery of 215 unmarked graves of children at the former Kamloops Residential School, North Vancouver resident, David…
Headlines
The Charity Report welcomes Nicole Salmon as a contributing editor
(July 28, 2021) The Charity Report announced today that Nicole Salmon will be coming on board as contributing editor effective immediately. “I have known Nicole since her days at Oxfam Canada, and I’ve most recently had the pleasure of working with her as she co-edited Collecting Courage, along with Nneka Allan and Camila Pereira,” says…
Children’s literacy coalition uses food bank distribution power
(July 27, 2021) The 700 food banks that dot the map of cities and towns across the country are the go-to vehicle a national children’s literacy program. And a coalition of food banks and literacy groups brought together by the Canadian Children’s Literacy Foundation, plan to distribute 150,000 children’s books across Canada this summer. Last year they distributed 80,000…
Bond UK: Exploring women’s leadership
(July 16, 2021) Exploring women’s leadership in 5 INGOs: A feminist learning journey is a recent report released by Bond UK that takes on the issues of misogyny and sexism in the charity sector. In 2019, statistics showed that “70% of INGO staff were women, but only 30-35% were chief executive officers.” Spurred on by the…
Stratford Festival opened on July 13
(July 14, 2021) It’s déjà vu all over again with the Stratford Festival opened, and its season being held under a tent, the same way it opened in 1953, with Alec Guinness and a young Christopher Plummer among the cast of Richard III. Plummer wrote about the experience in his deliciously gossipy autobiography In Spite of Myself. It…