Foreign Bribery Rules Will Now Apply to NGOs By Arthur Drache C.M., Q.C. One might be forgiven if the announcement that the government is tightening up the legislation Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA) dealing with bribery of foreign officials was moved to the front burner because of a couple of high profile cases […]
Market for Art is Subject to Unparalleled Sources of Ambiguity
Market for Art is Subject to Unparalleled Sources of Ambiguity By Brent Randall Last month, sculptures once thought to have been created by Michelangelo failed to sell at auction. The pieces, originally appraised at $31 million, were found by experts to actually have been the work of Johan Gregor van der Schardt, and therefore “only” […]
Finance Committee Report is a Disappointment
Finance Committee Report is a Disappointment By: Adam Aptowitzer Several years after hearings into charitable donation incentives were first proposed by Member of Parliament Peter Braid, we finally have the report of the Parliamentary Finance Committee. Unfortunately, it seems that the after years of anticipation the final report is neutered of any real effect because […]
Religious Organizations Under Attack
RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS UNDER ATTACK? by: C.Yvonne Chenier, Q.C. In the past few weeks three or four legal decisions or news items have caught my attention. I do not know if it is a trend or not but it seems that more facets of the operations of religious organizations have been the subject of greater scrutiny […]
Check Those Receipts
CHECK THOSE RECEIPTS By C. Yvonne Chenier, Q.C. In Alberta, and potentially in some of the other provinces that have regulated fundraising, there may already be confusion about receipts issued by entities referred to as “charitable organizations”. Now, potentially because of the new super credit that was announced for first time donors in the Federal […]
No Obligation for Charity to Issue a Receipt for a Gift
No Obligation for Charity to issue a Receipt for a Gift By Arthur Drache We have made the point in articles gone by that there is no obligation on a charity to issue a receipt for a gift though of course a refusal to do so would raise serious questions in the minds of donors […]
Why Every Charity Should Consider Incorporation
Why Every Charity Should Consider Incorporation by Alexandra Tzannidakis Before a group can be registered as a charity, there has to actually be some legal thing to register. This means that every charity faces the choice of which legal structure to use. A charity can be constituted as a trust, an unincorporated association, or a […]
Virtual Currencies
Virtual Currencies: Implications for Charities By Brent Randall Virtual currencies, such as Bitcoin, have been steadily increasing in popularity. At the time of this writing, one Bitcoin is valued at nearly $90 CAD. While an explanation of the exact nature of Bitcoin is outside of our scope, what can be said with certainty is that […]
Calling a Plumber
Quick Our Basement is Flooding – Call a Lawyer By: Adam Aptowitzer There are times being a lawyer is a bit like being a plumber. Like a plumber, a lawyer is called when an organization is being built, and like a plumber we are called in an emergency. But that is where the similarity ends, […]
Employee Directed Gift to A Charity
Employee Directed Gift to a Charity by Arthur Drache Making a charitable donation in honour of or in memory of a third party is of course a common event. In such a case, the donor will normally get a receipt for tax purposes and the charity will arrange for the fact of the donation to […]
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