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In a neoliberal era, where profitability is prioritized over social duty, all orders of government in Canada are increasingly shirking responsibility for providing social services onto non-profits. (Shutterstock)

May 24, 2023

As governments shirk their responsibilities, non-profits are more important than ever

Kevin Gosine, Brock University; Darlene Ciuffetelli Parker, Brock University, and Tiffany L. Gallagher, Brock University

Non-profits provide critical services and social support for communities. They also provide settings where vital forms of social capital are produced.

Copies of the ‘Montreal Gazette’ are shown on a newsstand in Montréal on Feb. 16, 2023. Local Montréal businessman Mitch Garber has expressed interest in buying the newspaper. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

March 8, 2023

Montreal Gazette: A case for the local ownership of community news media

Magda Konieczna, Concordia University

Local media ownership brings a level of accountability to the news business and offers benefits to communities by increasing voter turnout, reducing polarization and saving communities money.

The Canadian charity sector has significant social impact and is committed to providing unwavering support to every aspect of people’s lives. (Shutterstock)

May 10, 2022

Federal budget delivers long-overdue policy changes for Canada’s charities

Iryna Khovrenkov, University of Regina

The 2022 federal budget implements long needed regulations to support the charitable sector.

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed how non-profit organizations operate and how they’re funded. Whether it will be enough to help the non-profit sector address growing social problems remains to be seen. (Piqsels)

January 31, 2021

How COVID-19 could transform non-profit organizations

Brent McKnight, McMaster University and Julie Gouweloos, McMaster University

The COVID-19 pandemic shone a light on how non-profit organizations operate and how they’re funded. Is it enough to boost non-profit sector capacity to address social inequities post-pandemic?

Instagram users may be more influenced politically by their social connections on the platform than they are by political accounts. (Dean Moriarty, Pixabay)

May 28, 2020

Social ties, not politicians, may drive political participation on Instagram

Sabrina Wilkinson, Goldsmiths, University of London

A survey shows respondents who used Instagram for political information during the 2019 federal election were more likely to interact with people they knew, not political accounts.

People march during a climate strike in Montréal in September 2019. Climate change is a top concern for Canadians, but new Elections Canada rules left civil society organizations fearing they could not speak out on the need for climate action during the election. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

December 13, 2019

How Canada’s new election law has silenced political debate

John D. Cameron, Dalhousie University

Canada’s new Elections Act may have prevented the type of mammoth election spending seen in the United States via super-PACs, but it’s been at the expense of public debate.

Do social enterprises come to view profit as more important than their original mission? New research suggests they don’t, and the cause remains a key component of their success. Kat Yukawa/Unsplash

August 27, 2019

How non-profits can use business as a force for good

Jean-Baptiste Litrico, Queen's University, Ontario and Marya Besharov, Cornell University

New research suggests that non-profits tempted by the social enterprise model do not necessarily lose sight of their social mission in favour of profits. In fact, the opposite is true.

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