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INFORMATION SOURCES: Continued
Canada Business. Business Start-Up Assistant. (2004). Not-for-Profit.
Retrieved November 22, 2006 from http://bsa.cbsc.org/gol/bsa/site.nsf/en/su06561.html
This government website is organized by province. The site relates
specifically to starting up a not-for-profit business in Canada and
provides reliable information on incorporation, taxation, registration,
management and governance, funding and fundraising and much more.
This website is also available in French.
Canada/Manitoba Business Service Centre. (2002). Charitable & Non-Profit
Organization Fund Raising Activities. Retrieved November 21, 2006
from http://www.cbsc.org/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=CBSC_MB/display&c=GuideFactSheet&cid=1081945308156&lang=en
The Canada/Manitoba Business Service Centre was created to ensure
that businesses and entrepreneurs in every part of Manitoba have access
to government information that is accurate, timely and relevant.
Canada-Nunavut Business Service Centre. (2004). Incorporating a
Society. Retrieved November 21, 2006 from http://www.cbsc.org/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=CBSC_NU/display&c=GuideFactSheet&cid=1089652640742&lang=en
This webpage provides information about incorporating a society as
well as Nunavut contact information.
Canada-Nunavut Business Service Centre. (2005). Nunavut Legal Registries.
Retrieved November 21, 2006 from http://www.cbsc.org/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=CBSC_NU/display&c=Services&cid=1089652605547&lang=en
The Legal Registries Division consists of Corporate Registries, Document
Registry, Securities Registry and the Land Titles Office. Corporate
Registries is responsible for incorporating private businesses, non-profit
societies, and co-operatives as well as for the registration of companies
which have been created elsewhere but which are carrying on business
in Nunavut. This webpage also provides contact information and is
available in French and Inuinnaqtun.
Canada Revenue Agency. Charities Directorate. Retrieved October
6, 2004 from http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tax/charities/menu-e.html
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) registers qualifying organizations
as charities, gives technical advice on operating a charity, and handles
audit and compliance activities. Registered charities are required
to file an annual return with the CRA, a portion of which is available
to the public, and must meet certain requirements of the Income
Tax Act concerning their expenditures and activities. Visitors
to the website can also search the listing of Canadian Registered
Charities. This website is also available in French.
Canada Revenue Agency. Registered Charities Newsletters. Retrieved
October 19, 2004 from http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tax/charities/newsletters-e.html
These newsletters are available from the Canada Revenue Agency website
and are published regularly in both French and English and in an electronic
format. Newsletters from 1991 to the present are available online
and can be downloaded either as a PDF or HTML document.
Canada Revenue Agency. Tax topics: Charities. Retrieved October
21, 2004 from http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/formspubs/topics/charities-e.html
This webpage was produced by the Canada Revenue Agency and last updated
September 2003. The guides and forms on this page help organizations
become registered charities; operate day-to-day; and keep their registered
status. They have tried to simplify the rules. These guides are also
available in French.
Carter & Associates Charities Practice. Charitylaw.ca. Retrieved
October 4, 2004 from http://www.charitylaw.ca
The website at CharityLaw.ca provides information on legal issues
of interest to charities and not-for-profit organizations both in
Canada and internationally in the form of articles, seminar materials
and newsletters. Regular newsletters provided through the website
include the Charity Law Bulletin and Charity Law Update.
Carter Terrance S., B.A., LL.B. (2001, October 5) "Looking a Gift
Horse in the Mouth" Avoiding Liability in Charitable Fundraising.
Retrieved October 19, 2004 from the Carters & Associates website: http://www.carters.ca/pub/article/charity/2001/gifthorse.pdf
This 238-page paper is "intended to provide a practical overview
of the legal risks associated with charitable fundraising in Canada,
with a particular emphasis on charities that operate in Ontario. The
paper discusses practical steps that can be taken to avoid such legal
liability, where possible. The paper was first prepared for the Law
Society of Upper Canada 2nd Annual Trusts and Estates Forum held in
November 1999, but has been considerably updated and expanded since
then. The paper is primarily directed to lawyers who advise charitable
clients or who themselves serve on the board of directors of charitable
organizations. However, the comments contained in the paper are also
intended to assist senior management and fundraisers who either work
for or act on behalf of charities."
Carter Terrance S., Hoffstein, Maria Elena, & Parachin, Adam (Eds.).
(2003). Preface. Excerpt from Charities Law, 2003/2004 Edition.
Retrieved October 25, 2004 from the Carters & Associates website: http://www.carters.ca/pub/book/2003/CL03preface.pdf
The site states:
The purpose of this book is to assist charity law practitioners,
both specialists and generalists, in this regard. Accordingly, this
consolidation provides excerpts from or the entire version of the
key federal and Ontario statutes that apply to charities. A brief
description of the statutes included in the book, as well as certain
of those that have been omitted, has been set out in this preface.
Charity Channel. CharityLaw-Canada Discussion List. Retrieved
October 25, 2004 from http://charitychannel.com/publish/templates/?a=1106&z=72
CharityChannel was established in February, 1992 as an online discussion
community of nonprofit-sector professionals. It quickly grew into
the largest nonprofit-sector on-line community in the world, serving
more than 100,000 professionals as of March, 2002. This particular
discussion list covers all aspects of the Canadian law of tax-exempt
organizations.
CharityVillage (Website). Retrieved October 25, 2004 from http://www.charityvillage.com/cv/main.asp
This website describes itself as "Canada's supersite for the non-profit
sector - 3,000 pages of news, jobs, information and resources for
executives, staffers, donors, and volunteers. If philanthropy and
volunteerism are part of your world, this is your place."
CharityVillage. Legal Issues. Retrieved October 25, 2004 from
http://www.charityvillage.com/cv/research/rlegal.html
The purpose of the CharityVillage website is to encourage, support
and serve 175,000 registered Canadian charities and non-profit organizations,
and the millions of professionals, staffers, volunteers, and donors.
The Legal Issues section, found within the Library section,
lists web links to articles relating to legal issues in the charity
and non-profit sector.
Corporate and Insolvency Law Policy Directorate, Policy Sector, Industry
Canada. (2002, March). Reform of the Canada Corporations Act: discussion
issues for a new Not-for-Profit Corporations Act. Retrieved October
19, 2004 from the Strategis: Canada's Business and Consumer Website:
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/pics/cl/optionfinal_en_ed.pdf
This paper accompanies a separate draft framework setting out Industry
Canada's proposals for a new Not-for-Profit Corporations Act.
Highlighting certain topics in greater detail, it presents readers
with a variety of options on a series of issues. The issues contained
in this paper and the proposals contained in the draft framework are
not in any sense government or even departmental policy. Rather, they
are ideas that have come about largely through preliminary discussions
with stakeholders across the country. This paper and the consultations
that will follow, are intended to solicit further views on how the
Canada Corporations Act, Part II can be improved.
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