Telling Tales: Living the Effects of Public Policy By Sheila Neysmith, Kate Bezanson, and Anne O’Connell Published by Fernwood Publishing, 2005, 232 pp. CAD $24.95 REVIEWED BY LEA CARAGATA Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University Sheila Neysmith, Kate Bezanson, and Anne O’Connell have accomplished two rather remarkable goals in their book Telling…
Introduction On April 14, 2003, the Quebec Liberal Party came to power and set out to reengineer and modernize the Quebec state. Under the guise of decentralization and democratization, it launched a series of reforms that transformed the relationship between citizens and the state (Saint-Martin, 2004; Boismenu, Dufour, & Saint-Martin, 2005; Rouillard et al., 2004…
Introduction Apart from the challenge of always needing to raise more money, perhaps the most difficult problem for United Ways is how to fairly allocate the funds they collect. In fact, questions about fund distribution have haunted federated fundraising since its earliest days. In the journey to the present, begun in the 1930s in Canada,…
This article is adapted from a speech by Alan Broadbent to a Community Trusts of New Zealand conference in March 2006. Introduction The Maytree Foundation was started almost a quarter century ago to deal with issues of poverty; we have focused on immigrant and refugee settlement, among some other things. We have made grants, developed capacity-building…
Introduction: The Meaning of “Gift” Common Law The meaning of “gift” has important implications under the Income Tax Act (Canada),1 and the term appears in several sections in the Act. In particular, it appears in sections 110.1 and 118.1, which grant a deduction or a credit for the fair market value of a gift made…