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Charity Tax Tools Resources

Earlier this week, Imagine Canada – an organization dedicated to supporting Canada’s charitable sector – launched the Charity Tax Tools website … a site with free information, tools and resources to help small-to-medium sized charities better understand how to meet Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) requirements.
This couldn’t have come at a better time. 
In 2007 – 2008, for instance, over [...]

Wanted: A New Vision for First Nations

“Clearly, the vision of governance and shared community life of First Nations is not working.
Fortunately, some indigenous communities aren’t prepared to wait for Ottawa to provide an alternate vision.”
Joseph Quesnel
An intriguing article by Joseph Quesnel, a policy analyst with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, where he writes mainly about aboriginal and property rights issues.
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Focus on Creating Value for Local Customers

I’ve heard it said there is no silver bullet to sustainable living, but rather a toolbox to pick and choose your methods from.
One method of mine is to ‘buy local’ as I view sustainable consumerism as intentional consumerism. 
Yet on the flip side, virtually no local economies today are fully self-sustaining.  Cheap manufacturing elsewhere, cheap big box [...]

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