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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ONCA replaces an older act, the Ontario Corporations Act (“OCA”) which is over a century old and has become drastically outdated and out-paced by the more modern legislation modelled by […]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

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 […]

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Bill 154 & the ONCA – Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

October 12, 2017

By: Sylvie Lalonde Those of us who work in the not-for-profit sector have been eagerly waiting for some developments with respect to the Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010 (the “ONCA”). On September 14, 2017, the Ontario government introduced Bill 154, Cutting Unnecessary Red Tape Act, 2017, which contains the enabling legislation that will allow the […]

Filed Under: Articles, Charities - Current Articles Tagged With: Bill 154, Changes to OCA, ONCA, Ontario Not for Profit Corporations Act, Sylvie Lalonde

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