Photo Essays
Royal Winnipeg Ballet: Celebrating 50 Years of its professional school in 2021
(November 17, 2020) The Royal Winnipeg Ballet has had to cancel its much-loved production of The Nutcracker this year but looks forward to 2021 with artful optimism and in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School’s Professional Division which has produced high-calibre dancers who have danced all over the world. Today,…
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Features
How to be a kid in a country that can’t tell you the number of children dying in care
(November 17, 2020) Being in the care of child welfare agencies are where too many children are going to die. In July 2020, APTN reported that,…
Kids Help Phone CEO Katherine Hay in a Feature Interview
(November 16, 2020) The Charity Report editor in chief Gail Picco spoke with Kids Help Phone CEO Katherine Hay on November 14, 2020 to…
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News
#NDOC urges talk about sexual misconduct on November 26
(November 23, 2020) #NDOC, a National Day of Conversation, was formed in the aftermath of the #metoo movement and the disclosure by…
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How are young people in Canada doing?
(November 17, 2020) “Here’s the thing,” says Katherine Hay, CEO of Kids Help Phone in an interview with The Charity Report, “The data…
US Election: The world weighs in
(November 8, 2020) When the outcome of the the US election was called by numerous news networks on Saturday, November 7, four…
Headlines
Empathy is back
(November 7, 2020) In 2018, Chris Hixon, the athletic director of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was shot dead as he tried to save his students. A video of Vice President Joe Biden comforting Corey Hixon, the son of Chris Hixon, during a memorial service in Parkland, Florida, went viral two years after it was…
Remembering the UNICEF coin box
(October 30, 2020) It’s been 14 years (!) since UNICEF Canada sent out the UNICEF coin box to schools across the country so trick or treaters could fill them with pennies, nickels and dimes as they filled their buckets with candy. In 2006, UNICEF Canada ended the program, saying the labour involved in rolling up all…
Ethics Commissioner drops investigation into Bill Morneau’s trips with WE Charity
(October 30, 2020) Ottawa’s ethics commissioner Mario Dion has dropped his investigation into former finance minister Bill Morneau’s trips with the WE Charity saying he believed that Moreau truly thought he had paid for trips he had taken to Kenya and Ecuador with the charity himself. Morneau has been among the collateral damage caused by the federal…
LEAF, DAWN, and ARCH intervene in Supreme Court Case on behalf of women labelled with intellectual disabilities
(September 11, 2020) When a woman labelled with an intellectual disabilities disclosed sexual assault and the case went to trial, the defence counsel argued the complainant’s evidence was unreliable, because her disability made her answers were easily influenced by others. The trial judge did not accept these the defence argument and convicted the accused of…