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Long Wait for new Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act is Finally Over

October 18, 2021

Ontario’s new Not-for-profit-Corporations Act (“ONCA”) is finally coming into effect on October 19, 2021, nearly a dozen fashionably-late years after it was first passed.   The ONCA replaces an older act, the Ontario Corporations Act (“OCA”) which is over a century old and has become drastically outdated and out-paced by the more modern legislation modelled by […]

Filed Under: Articles, Charities - Current Articles Tagged With: Alexandra Tzannidakis, OCA, ONCA, Ontario Not for Profit Corporations Act

Holding Meetings during the Ontario State of Emergency

March 31, 2020

In light of the state of emergency,[1] corporations under the jurisdiction the Ontario Corporations Act (the”OCA”) are temporarily[2] being given more flexibility in holding their directors’ and members’ meetings. This is good news for non-profits and charities under the jurisdiction of the OCA who have looming deadlines to hold their AGMs or who have governing […]

Filed Under: Articles, Charities - Current Articles Tagged With: AGM, Annual General Meetings, Covid, COVID-19, electronic meeting, Lex Klombies, Meetings, non-profit, nonprofit, not for profit corproations, OCA, ONCA, Ontario State of Emergency, State of Emergency

Cutting Red Tape for NPOs and Charities – Changes to OCA

October 12, 2017

By: Karen Cooper On September 14, 2017 the Honorable Brad Duguid (irony?), Ontario’s Minister of Economic Development and Growth introduced Bill 154, Cutting Unnecessary Red Tape Act, 2017, (“Bill 154”) as part of a government initiative to reduce red tape – red tape is an idiom that refers to excessive regulation or formal rules.  Bill […]

Filed Under: Articles, Charities - Current Articles Tagged With: (NFP), amendments to OCA, Bill 154, Corporations Act of Ontario, Karen Cooper, not for profit corproations, OCA, ONCA, Ontario Not for Profit Corporations Act

By-laws: Tips and Traps

May 24, 2017

By:   Sylvie Lalonde Discussions about By-laws will rarely generate much enthusiasm or interest. That is, until a situation arises where they must be consulted and you realize that the By-laws contain gaps, inconsistencies and simply do not work. When there is a challenge to procedures relating to the conduct of meetings, the By-laws are […]

Filed Under: Articles, Charities - Current Articles Tagged With: Board of Directors, by-laws, bylaws, CNCA, directors, Drache Aptowitzer LLP, meeting conduct, OCA, quorum, Sylvie Lalonde

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