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Gifts of Cultural Property – Undoing Heffel

March 20, 2019

Gifts of Cultural Property – Undoing Heffel By: Karen Cooper As part of a package of measures intended to increase support for Canadian artists and cultural events, Budget 2019 included aimed at ending any lingering uncertainty around gifts of cultural property arising from the Federal Court of Justice’s decision in Heffel Gallery Limited v. The […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Charities - Current Articles Tagged With: Budget 2019, Drache Aptowitzer LLP, Heffel, Karen Cooper

Supporting Non-Profit Journalism

March 19, 2019

Supporting Non-Profit Journalism By Arthur Drache As had been promised last year, the Government has moved on it undertaking to support non-profit journalism…a promise which had been viewed as contentious in some circles. But as we had predicted, the mechanism to implement this scheme was to create a new category of qualified donees. The key […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Charities - Current Articles Tagged With: Arthur Drache, Budget 2019, Journalism, QCJO, Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization, qualified donee

Another Run at the Social Finance Fund

March 19, 2019

Another Run at the Social Finance Fund  By Alexandra Tzannidakis The 2019 Budget confirms the creation of a Social Finance Fund, which will make investments of federal capital into organizations that are working to remedy Canada’s social challenges. This project has been in the works for a while, beginning with the 2017 creation of a […]

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Budget 2019: Housing strategies

March 19, 2019

Budget 2019: Housing strategies Lex Klombies Budget 2019 was heavy on housing strategies. Among other things, it claims to modernize the Home Buyer’s Plan, which went 10 years without being increased or even adjusted for inflation. Budget 2019 also proposes to introduce the First-Time Home Buyer Incentive, and to start a $100 million fund for […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Charities - Current Articles Tagged With: Budget 2019, HBP, Home Buyer's Plan, Housing Stategies, irst-Time Home Buyer Incentive, Lex Klombies

Retail Therapy for Governments

March 19, 2019

Retail Therapy for Governments by: Adam Aptowitzer Pre-election budgets can be predictable in their spending, but in certain circumstances budgets are predictable because they spend. Budget 2019 falls into this unusual class of retail therapy because government revenues are pouring in yet this is a pre-election budget (and this is a Liberal government). Consequently, extra revenues […]

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