Model keeps Canada’s social sector from advocating for themselves, Canadians: experts
A scattered funding model and a lack of accountability in government mean the social good sector’s advocacy efforts are scattered - when they exist at all.
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Bill 137 requires students under 16 to have parental consent before educators can use their gender-affirming names and pronouns in classrooms.
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?
The failed coordination of Canada’s social good sector
Decades of underfunding have left Canada’s community sector exhausted, fragmented, and structurally unable to coordinate — even as movements across Canada show what’s possible when strategic advocacy is sustained.
What housing advocates said to a parliamentary committee about Build Canada Homes
Bill C-20, the Build Canada Homes Act, went through a study with a Standing Committee between March and May 2026. Several witnesses advocated for the new Crown corporation to prioritize the development and preservation of non-market housing, and predictable financing that is accessible to non-profits as well.
How non-profits advocated for the sector in a special review of B.C.’s lobbying act
Several national and provincial non-profits appeared before the Special Committee to share their experiences of complying with the Lobbyists Transparency Act, with some of the sector’s recommendations reflected in the Committee’s final report.
Explainer: What the social sector should know about Carney’s Spring Economic Update
Measures announced include a permanent employee ownership tax incentive, a simpler application process for the Disability Tax Credit, and a reduction in Canada Pension Plan (CPP) contributions.
Explainer: What Canada’s new national sovereign wealth fund means for the social sector (and why it’s different than the other one)
The new fund could reshape national investment priorities, and the social sector has a stake in how it’s defined
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B.C. advocates urge the provincial government to prohibit pet bans in tenancy agreements.
Growing provincial use of notwithstanding clause a risk to Canadian human rights: Amnesty International
The notwithstanding clause has been invoked by provinces looking to push ahead with their agendas on religious symbols, the rights of transgender youth, and to prevent strike action.
