Posts Tagged ‘philanthropy’
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It’s time for Canada to lead on brain research
… the problem is so enormous, even a relatively small advancement can have a significant impact. If we can delay the onset of Alzheimer’s by an average of two years, we can reduce the costs to Canada over the next generation by $219-billion. Not to mention the positive difference this can make for patients, families and communities… the Weston Brain Institute is announcing an additional $50-million in funding for Canadian researchers with world-leading projects…
Tags: disabilities, Health, mental Health, philanthropy, standard of living
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Toronto youth job program gets surprise cash boost
Neighbourhoods in the city’s northwest quadrant targeted for the extra Canada Summer Jobs Program funding include Lawrence Heights, Black Creek, Jane-Finch, Weston-Mount Dennis and Rexdale. It is part of an $18.7-million investment across the city to create 6,305 summer jobs this year, more than double the positions funded by the previous Conservative government. More than 77,000 jobs are being created nationwide. Students aged 15 to 30 who are returning to school in the fall are eligible.
Tags: budget, featured, participation, philanthropy, poverty, youth
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Liberals should reconsider this capital-gains oversight on donations
In the United States, gifts of appreciated capital property are exempt from capital-gains taxes. Removal of this barrier would also help Canadians donate more, as our per-capita donations are one half of donations by Americans… All stakeholders strongly recommend the Liberals consider implementing this important measure in the 2017 budget.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, mental Health, philanthropy, standard of living, tax
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‘Charity chill’ melts under friendly government
One of Justin Trudeau’s first acts as prime minister was to disband Revenue Canada’s anti-charity hit squad… “Allow charities to do their work on behalf of Canadians free of political harassment,” he wrote. “Modernize the rules governing the charitable and not-for-profit sectors, working with the minister of finance. This will include clarifying the rules governing ‘political activity’ with an understanding that charities make an important contribution to public debate and policy.”
Tags: ideology, participation, philanthropy, tax
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To be effective, charities need to invest in themselves
Imagine the impact we could have if instead of treating charities like charity cases, we thought of them, and invested in them, as businesses – helping them scale, become more efficient and deliver a better return on investment? … “Administration and overhead costs” … applies to the amount charities can invest in systems and structures that will define their ability to be successful and impactful. It includes… technology, training, recruitment, financial controls and governance.
Tags: ideology, participation, philanthropy, standard of living
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Non-profits should provide decent work
Despite growing concern for people trapped in “precarious work” — without job security, pensions or benefits — almost half of the 1 million staff employed by Ontario’s 55,000 non-profit organizations are serving part-time or on contract… Rather than judging non-profits according to how much — or how little — they spend on administration, it would make more sense to give increased weight to factors such as cost-of-living pay increases and provision of living wages for staff.
Tags: ideology, philanthropy, poverty, standard of living
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Trudeau makes public his ministerial mandate letters — their marching orders for four years
All 30 “mandate letters” were publicly posted on the prime minister’s website as part of Trudeau’s promised “plan for open and transparent government for Canadians.” It is a first for the federal government, and included a signal that the ministers will be held to a higher ethical standard, with the caution that “the arrangement of your private affairs should bear the closest public scrutiny… the government has “expanded or strengthened” rules, including guidance on non-partisan use of departmental communications resources and the new code of conduct for exempt staff.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, economy, featured, Health, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, philanthropy, rights, standard of living
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Honest talk about private health services is long overdue
The reality is that every universal health-care system in the world – including Canada’s – has a combination of public and private payment, and a blend of for-profit and not-for-profit delivery of services. The discussion we really need to have is what is in the so-called medicare basket of services and what is outside the publicly-funded basket. And what we need to do is not ban private care, but regulate it, as part of a broader, long-overdue reform.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, pharmaceutical, philanthropy, standard of living
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Campaign 2015 forced Canadians to face hard truths
The racial and religious harmony on which we pride ourselves is more tenuous than many of us realized. / We are willing to settle for “economic stability” rather than growth. / We have embraced the notion that strengthening the middle class is the role of government [marginalizing those who truly need help]. / Our humanitarian instincts remain strong [concerning refugees]. / We’re becoming a do-it-yourself nation. / We haven’t figured out how to keep our priorities — health care, the environment, our children’s future — on the election agenda.
Tags: economy, Health, immigration, multiculturalism, philanthropy, poverty, privatization, standard of living
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Canada’s refugee policies are mean and incompetent
With the cuts to refugee health care and their amendments to the refugee law, the government has gone to great lengths to discourage asylum seekers from coming to Canada… There is a meanness and incompetence to Canada’s refugee and immigration policies that we have never seen in previous governments, no matter which party held office. It is unprecedented for the Canadian government to do so little in the face of such a grave disaster.
Tags: featured, globalization, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, philanthropy
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