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Don’t take it literally-or should you?

July 30, 2018

By:  C. Yvonne Chenier, Q.C. Recent Court cases have reinforced my belief in the importance of the wording of governing documents of charities and not-for-profits organizations. Whether it is trying to ascertain what the members have agreed to in the rules of membership, the specific procedures contained in bylaws or the actual wording of the […]

Filed Under: Articles, Charities - Current Articles Tagged With: bylaws, Canada Without Poverty, Charitable Purposes, constating documents, constitutional documents, court findings, Dhillon v. Sikh Society Calgary, governing documents, literal interpretation, purposes, Wall v. Jehova's Witnesses

Charity Brings New Charter Challenge to Political Activity Restrictions

October 19, 2016

By: Alexandra Tzannidakis When the Liberals came into power last year, the new Minister of National Revenue announced that she was putting a halt to the “political activities” audit of charities that the previous administration had been conducting for the past few years. In practice, this meant that the charities in line to be audited […]

Filed Under: Articles, Charities - Article Archive, Charities - Current Articles Tagged With: Alexandra Tzannidakis, Canada Without Poverty, Canadian Chatert of Rights and Freedoms, charter, constitutional challenge, Income Tax Act, ITA, minister of national revenue, political activities

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