Photo Essays
Trumpism in Canada
(January 11, 2020) A loud and heavily policed protest gathered at Dundas Square across the street from the Eaton Centre in downtown Toronto on Saturday, January 9, 2021 underlined the international reach of Trumpism and his white supremacist politics. The protest was ostensibly about the Ontario government’s mandate (however unenforced) to…
Features
StatsCan diversity survey: Three days left to be counted
(January 15, 2021) In December 2020, Statistics Canada launched its first diversity survey, a targeted attempt to measure diversity on governing boards in the…
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Top Charity Report Stories in 2020
In an unprecedented year, inequity, the COVID-19 pandemic, a pivotal US election, as well as the WE charity controversy captured headlines in Canada. Here…
News
Ontario hospital CEO and COVID advisor, Dr. Tom Stewart, vacations outside the country for weeks as pandemic spikes
(January 7, 2021) When the news of Dr. Tom Stewart CEO of St. Joseph’s Health System in Hamilton and Niagara Health vacationing “in…
Yearend Message from Roger Ali: ‘Think about the charities that need our financial support’
(December 18, 2020) Roger Ali is a member of The Charity Report’s Literary Circle, where he regular reviews books for us. He…
New research by The Charity Report reveals where private foundations spend their money
(December 14, 2020) Since the July 2020 Intelligence Report, Where Wealth Resides, subscribers and readers have said they would like to see a…
Headlines
Trump uses Elections Canada tweet countering misinformation to undermine US democracy
(January 5, 2020) On November 16, 2020, Elections Canada felt compelled to issue a tweet to say it did not use machines to count ballots, specifically Dominion Business Machines, a company Donald Trump and his Republican party have repeatedly said were used to alternately destroy ballots or double count ballots. These claims have been dismissed in…
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…