Author: Clint Curtis

We’re a self-funded registered charity. Less than 2% of your donation ensures CanadaHelps can continue to provide charities with affordable access to online fundraising and educational tools. You receive a tax receipt for 100% of the value of your donation. What percentage does CanadaHelps take? How does CanadaHelps support itself? CanadaHelps is a self-funded charity. […]

About Salvation Army: The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada is a two-star charity with a low results reporting grade and reasonable overhead spending. What percentage of money goes to the Salvation Army? Be a Blessing to Others. At The Salvation Army, 83 cents of every dollar is used to directly support programs […]

What is a Community Foundation? Canada’s Community Foundations are a national network of public foundations created by and for urban and rural communities to provide lasting support for local priorities. What is the purpose of a community foundation? A community foundation is a public charity that typically focuses on supporting a geographical area, primarily by […]

Volunteering is unpaid work. Often, volunteer positions are with non-profit or charity organizations. Volunteering can help you to: Get Canadian work experience. Does a volunteer receive a salary? At first glance, the simple difference between these two types of workers is that employees get paid and volunteers don’t. Yet many nonprofit leaders have discovered that […]

Since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia 1. In Canada, these changes include rising temperatures, shifting rainfall patterns, and increases in certain types of hazardous weather. When did environmental issues start in Canada? In the early 1900s conservationists begun the environmental movement aiming to slow the rapid depletion […]

More than half of the electricity in Canada (60%) is generated from hydro sources. The remainder is produced from a variety of sources, including natural gas, nuclear, wind, coal, biomass, solar, and petroleum (Figure 2). How is energy demand met? In order to meet the increasing energy demand, new primary energy sources are being supplied […]

Canada has relatively large mining, oil and gas extraction, and manufacturing sectors, which tend to be oil-intensive. What consumes the most energy in Canada? RPPs are a range of products that are refined from crude oil, such as gasoline, diesel, heating oil, and jet fuel. RPPs are the largest type of energy consumed by end […]

Canada ranked fourth in 2021 among top energy producers of petroleum and total liquids in the world, behind only the United States, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. In 2021, energy consumption in Canada, which totaled 13 quadrillion British thermal units (quads), accounted for less than 3% of total world energy consumption. Where does Canada rank in […]

Brookfield Renewable Partners. As one of Brookfield Asset Management’s many subsidiaries, Brookfield Renewable Partners is Canada’s largest pure-play renewable energy company. The company owns and operates around 6,000 renewable power generating facilities in North America, Colombia, Brazil, Europe, India, and China. What is the best renewable energy stock in Canada? 5 Best Green Energy Stocks […]

Through this plan, Canada is working towards net-zero electricity by 2035 and will expand non-emitting energy across Canada, connect regions to clean power, and foster more clean, reliable, and affordable electricity supply. What is the main goal of renewable energy? Energy efficiency and increase use of renewables contribute to climate change mitigation and disaster risk […]