Canada’s largest sector starved: Inside the financial crisis reshaping Canada’s fraying non-profits
As governments retreat from core services, non-profits are absorbing the fallout, without the funding, workforce stability or policy attention needed to sustain it. Why?
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Isaac is an investigative freelance journalist combining their lifelong ethical pursuit of information and democracy with an insatiably curious mind. They are a bilingual journalist based in Montréal who specializes in uncovering the political and economic forces shaping Canadians’ everyday lives. Their reporting — ranging from deep dives into the national housing crisis and provincial education policy to rigorous examinations of government ethics — has appeared across independent outlets in both English and French.
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