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(July 5, 2022) On May 24, Quebec’s legislature passed Bill 96 into law. As reported by the Guardian the Bill "will require new immigrants and refugees to communicate with provincial officials exclusively in French six months after arriving or face a loss of services. The bill also limits the use of English in the legal system and caps enrolment at the province’s … [Read more...] about How racist is Quebec’s Bill 96?  

(June 20, 2022) In April, prior to the 2022 budget, Imagine Canada, the country’s largest lobby group for charities took issue with the Liberal government’s campaign promise to stop providing charity status to Crisis Pregnancy Centres, despite the harm these groups can cause vulnerable women. The Liberal party platform states that a Liberal government will “[n]o longer … [Read more...] about Crisis pregnancy centres: How anti-choice groups use charity status to support the spread of disinformation

(April 22, 2022) “The American Accountability Foundation has undermined the likes of Ketanji Brown Jackson, but it’s also gone after relatively obscure political appointees whose public profiles can be easily distorted,” writes Jane Mayer in this week’s New Yorker article, The Slime Machine Targeting Dozens of Biden Nominees. Mayer has been an award-winning investigative … [Read more...] about The charity behind the sliming of Ketanji Brown Jackson

(April 22, 2022) Community-centric fundraising (CCF) is a growing movement that challenges existing philanthropic practices as being colonial in their nature, and exclusionary in their practice. What started in Seattle, Washington has now gone global. A global council to guide the future of Community Centric Fundraising is being created. In part two of this two-part … [Read more...] about Equity and justice in Canadian fundraising: Moving towards a more equitable sector