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The charities that help struggling Canadians are struggling, too

Originally published in the Globe & Mail December 11, 2020 By W. Matthew Chater, Owen Charters, Dan Clement, Peter Dinsdale, and Maya Roy One thing is true of our organizations: We exist because communities need us. More than eight million...

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It’s time to invest in opportunity for those who need it most

It’s time to invest in opportunity for those who need it most

By Jully Black (published in The Toronto Star on November 30, 2020) Opportunity changes everything. If this sentence doesn’t resonate with you, then maybe opportunity wasn’t something you had to think about. Or maybe you had to create your own...

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Charities are too vital to fail

By Owen Charters (CEO, BGC Canada) and Peter Dinsdale (CEO, YMCA Canada). *originally published in The Hill Times Charitable organizations in Canada have always been front-line workers, helping the country’s most vulnerable populations. Our role in the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t...

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A map of Canada displays various provinces shaded in different tones of red, with numerical values indicating the number of victims of firearm-related violent crimes per 100,000 people in each region.

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Let’s empower youth to step up and speak out

By Owen Charters *this op-ed was recently published in the Toronto Star, Maclean’s, and Huffington Post. Brazen. Public. Daylight. More and more these words are showing up in news reports about gun crime. Shootings are happening on playgrounds now, and we know kids...

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