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SPEECH: The Federal Role in a Social Finance Fund – New Report from the Senate’s Social Affairs Committee

Ratna Omidvar Senate of Canada June 14, 2018 charities, non-profits, SOCI, Social Finance

"We have old challenges, such as affordable housing, but we also have new emerging challenges such as the development of products for a low-carbon economy. And all of these challenges need to be financed and resourced in one way or another. Social finance offers us new ways to fuel solutions."

News Release: New Senate committee to consider ways to bolster charitable sector

Special Senate Committee on the Charitable Sector Senate of Canada May 9, 2018 charities, CSSB, non-profits

Members of the Senate's new Charities committee will study how Canada can improve the regulation of charities and non-profit organizations, and help them overcome challenges that include, among others, funding gaps, staff and volunteer retention challenges and changing demographics and technologies, through innovation and other best practices, among other important themes.

Senate Study Approved – Time to Take Advantage of the Opportunity

Bill Schaper Imagine Canada February 28, 2018 charities, Imagine Canada, non-profits

The Senate recently passed a motion to establish a special committee to carry out an in-depth study of the charitable and nonprofit sector. If you are questioning the importance of this study and the influence of the Senate to enact change, let us bring you up to speed.

Question to Minister Duclos: What can Canadians expect from a national social finance strategy?

Ratna Omidvar Senate of Canada December 5, 2017 charities, Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, Question Period, Social Finance, social innovation

On December 5, 2017 Senator Ratna Omidvar rose in the Senate Chamber to ask the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, about the development of Canada's social finance strategy. This strategy was named as a key priority in the Minister's mandate letter.

Speech: S-239 – An Act to Amend the Canada Elections Act

Ratna Omidvar Senate of Canada November 2, 2017 Bill S-239, Chamber Speeches, charities, Democracy, digital governance, Elections, Senator Frum, social media

The big picture tells us that foreign influence is more pervasive than any money attached to third parties. It tells us that we must strike a balance between allowing participation in a digital and global age while protecting Canada’s democracy. This is indeed the brave new world that we must learn to navigate, negotiate and regulate.

Question: Regulations Governing Charitable Organizations

Ratna Omidvar Senate of Canada October 18, 2017 Canada Revenue Agency, charities, public policy advocacy, Question Period

A minister’s advisory panel tabled a report earlier this year in which they recommended that the government should proceed as soon as possible to modernize the rules governing the charitable sector through the development of a new legislative framework. We have heard nothing since then. Can you shed some light on what the government is thinking and planning to do?

Speech: Bolstering our understanding of Canada’s charities and non-profits in the Senate

Ratna Omidvar Senate of Canada June 21, 2017 Chamber Speeches, charities, Senator Terry Mercer

"These topics are near and dear to me. As a new immigrant to Canada — and I possibly am not alone when I say this — this was the one sector that did not look at me in the face and say, "Where is your Canadian work experience?" I have a real fondness and empathy for the sector because on principle it is associated with looking at people other than what is on the paper before them."

Senators’ Statements: Alan Broadbent, C.M

Ratna Omidvar Senate of Canada May 10, 2017 Alan Broadbent, charities, Statements

Alan is one of Canada's leading philanthropists. He is chair of the Maytree Foundation, and I had the honour of serving as its president for close to 15 years. I know intimately that his reach and influence in the world of philanthropy is enormous.

The Senate’s champion of diversity

Mackenzie Scrimshaw iPolitics October 15, 2016 Bill C-6, Canada-US relations, charities, Diversity, immigration, refugees, Senate Modernization

The senator sat down with iPolitics on October 6 in a vacant office at the University of Ottawa’s Fauteux Building after giving a keynote speech to a group of law students, interested in refugee law, from across Canada. The address was part of the first student-led conference of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers.