The Philanthropist
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The Philanthropist is a quarterly academic journal
devoted to the legal, management and accounting issues facing charitable and not-for-profit organizations in Canada. It was founded as an occasional publication of the Trusts and Estates Section of the Canadian Bar Association - Ontario (now the Ontario Bar Association) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1972. Its first Editor was Bertha Wilson
, later a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada
. For a time during the 1980s it was an official publication of the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy (now Imagine Canada). It derives its funding from the Agora Foundation in Toronto. The Ontario Law Reform Commission's Report on the Law of Charities (1996) called it "informed rather than learned". Its content is overseen by a volunteer Editorial Board drawn from the charitable sector, law, accounting and academia. As of May 2009 the current and archived content is available electronically at no charge.
Academic journal
An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...
devoted to the legal, management and accounting issues facing charitable and not-for-profit organizations in Canada. It was founded as an occasional publication of the Trusts and Estates Section of the Canadian Bar Association - Ontario (now the Ontario Bar Association) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1972. Its first Editor was Bertha Wilson
Bertha Wilson
Bertha Wernham Wilson, CC was a Canadian jurist and the first woman Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.-Early life:...
, later a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada
Supreme Court of Canada
The Supreme Court of Canada is the highest court of Canada and is the final court of appeals in the Canadian justice system. The court grants permission to between 40 and 75 litigants each year to appeal decisions rendered by provincial, territorial and federal appellate courts, and its decisions...
. For a time during the 1980s it was an official publication of the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy (now Imagine Canada). It derives its funding from the Agora Foundation in Toronto. The Ontario Law Reform Commission's Report on the Law of Charities (1996) called it "informed rather than learned". Its content is overseen by a volunteer Editorial Board drawn from the charitable sector, law, accounting and academia. As of May 2009 the current and archived content is available electronically at no charge.