Keenan Wellar is our new point correspondent for Canada’s civil sector. Today, he takes on the debates around a new structure proposed for journalism organizations that’s neither nonprofit nor for-profit.
In Montreal, a major museum now employs a full-time art therapist, whose patients are referred by physicians as part of their overall treatment plans.
Our Ottawa-based correspondent, Keenan Wellar, is dedicated to covering issues in the Canadian nonprofit and philanthropic sector. This week, he takes on an Oxfam Canada assessment of Trudeau’s government that specifically measures its progress on women’s equality and gender rights.
The early outcomes of Canada’s poverty reduction strategy may offer insight for policymakers worldwide in seeking to strike the right balance between fueling a market economy and investment in social programs.
The Canadian government is doing no more than paying lip service to First Nations’ rights and obligations as they continue efforts to expand the Trans Mountain oil pipeline. First Nations communities are steadfast in their resistance to this environmental threat and intrusion on their sovereignty.
The showdown in British Columbia between the Wet’suwet’en and their supporters versus TransCanada and Coastal GasLink, the Mounties, and the Canadian government over a proposed pipeline through Wet’suwet’en land continues.
Belying its commitment to Truth and Reconciliation with First Nations people, Canada has sent the Mounties to make arrests at the Gidimt’en Checkpoint on Wet’suwet’en land in British Columbia. Reconciliation, it would appear, plays second fiddle to the economic interests of Canada’s settler government.
In the mid-1990s, prodded by a recession and a narrowly failed secession referendum, Quebec launched what has become a $2 billion-a-year childcare program. Despite the outlay, the program has paid for itself by making it easier for mothers to maintain employment. The Quebec model has been widely imitated, but not in the US—yet.
In addition to allocating CDN $119 million a year, the proposed legislation would make journalism a valid criterion for having charitable status, opening the door for greater foundation support for nonprofit journalists.
Last month, Canada became the second country in the world to legalize marijuana nationally. One consequence is that scientists can now access the once-restricted plant for research purposes.
