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.
One of Canada’s leading galleries plans an international biennial festival to lift up leading contemporary indigenous art worldwide.
Canada has now officially legalized marijuana nationwide. When the new law takes effect in October, it will become the second nation in the world to do so. Might the US follow? Perhaps, but it won’t happen easily.
While nonprofit journalism is prominent in the US, it has been less common in Canada. But with a leading Montréal daily going nonprofit and suggestions of federal legislation in the coming year, that may be about to change in a big way.
The city of Montreal has found a way to preserve a slice of its transportation history while adding visual interest and practical spaces to benefit community members.
A social enterprise in Calgary leverages immigrants’ culinary skills to help them start ethnic-based food and hospitality businesses.
Singles night has gone to the dogs, and that’s a great thing for the animal welfare sector.
In Canada, a seasonal worker program to address labor shortages leaves workers vulnerable to exploitation and deportation, and in Florida, a workers’ compensation law has allowed insurers to turn immigrant workers in to the state.
The move by officials in Quebec to open its “white elephant” Olympic stadium to refugees could be copied in cities around the world that are burdened both by vacant structures and burgeoning numbers of migrants and other homeless people.
