Community power was given a boost this summer with the release of the second round of Nova Scotia’s Community Feed-In Tariff (COMFIT) projects on July 9, 2012 and Ontario’s FIT 2.0 Program Rules on August 10, 2012.
Until now, ownership and participation in Canada’s growing green energy sector has been dominated by private sector interests. It looks like things may be starting to change.
The Ontario Nonprofit Network announces their full support for the Open for Business not-for-profit sector final report:
Jointly led by the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation and the ONN, the Open for Business sector strategy resulted in solutions within five key areas that will both streamline government-sector public benefit services in Ontario and foster new opportunities for the nonprofit sector to create community wealth across the province.
Brian is a speaker at the Ontario Nonprofit Network Conference, Friday, September 28, 2012. He’ll be participating in a half day session on organizing renewable energy community power projects where he’ll be speaking on contracting to implement community power projects. It will be held at Victoria College and costs just $35 to attend.
Continue reading “Brian on Organizing Renewable Energy Community Power Projects”
Great post at David Dodge’s Green Energy Futures about WindShare, TREC and the community power movement in Ontario. The whole green Energy Futures series is worth a look.
While Ontario’s non‑profit law sorely needs updating, the Ontario government’s recent initiative to do so has resulted in a deeply flawed replacement.
In drafting the new ONCA, the government prioritized two objectives:
While there’s much to modernize about non‑profit corporate law, the introduction of many business law concepts was not tempered by the differing realities of the non‑profit world.
Couple that with a highly legalistic drafting style, the new Act will be inaccessible for many, and force many less sophisticated non‑profits to seek more legal advice than they might have in the past.
The result: an Act that is certainly not responsive to, or knowledgeable about, the sector.
Continue reading “What’s Wrong with the New Ontario Not for Profit Corporations Act”
It’s not that often that charities law and criminal law intersect, but the decision of R. v. Gour, decided June 28, 2012, did just that. The case was about an individual, Adam Gour, who had contracted to fundraise for charity, and his and his contractor’s failure to disclose the commissions that would be earned. The court concluded this was a fraud. The case is only six pages long, and makes for a compelling read.
The issue of paying fundraisers in the context of charitable donations has been a controversial one for some time.
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