Future of Good

The painting Bound Together in Gaza by Gazan artist Malak Mattar, 2020. The artwork will be on display at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights as part of the Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present exhibit, which opens June 27, 2026. (Malak Mattar/Supplied) A controversial museum exhibit that drew ire from some members of Canada’s Jewish community before it even opened to the public welcomed its first visitors on Saturday.

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a fundraising drive and design competition for 24 Sussex Dr. on Friday. (National Capital Commission/Supplied) Advocates working in the non-profit sector say while they’re glad to see the Prime Minister’s official residence will be restored and upgraded, funds for the renovations should come from government coffers, not fundraisers.

Seventeen First Nations communities across Canada will receive about $500,000 worth of smoke alarms following the success of a pilot program last year. The donation, led by Kiddie, in partnership with the National Indigenous Fire Safety Council (NIFSC) and Firefighters Without Borders, hopes to improve fire safety education and increase access to smoke alarms in Indigenous communities.

Food insecurity and housing affordability remain worsening challenges in Canada, despite the country improving its ‘poverty grade’. (Canva/Stock.) Despite increased and ongoing food and housing affordability issues, Canada’s largest food bank association gave the country an improving ‘grade’ this year, which advocates say may distort the reality on the ground.

Licensed childcare spaces across Canada grew by 16.5 per cent between 2022 and 2025, but for-profit providers developed two-thirds of the new spaces. According to research published in June by Child Care Now, just under one-third of new spaces were managed by the non-profit sector, and only 1 per cent of spaces were directly provided by the public sector.

A policy change at the federal level in the early aughts showed foundations did adjust how much money they funnelled to charities when their limits were adjusted. (Canva/Supplied) New research authored by Carleton University academics shows that foundations adjusted their disbursement behaviour in line with a policy change in 2004 that brought the disbursement quota (DQ) down from 4.5 per cent to 3.5 per cent.

The shooting in Montreal has renewed calls for stronger systems to prevent online radicalization and gender‑based extremism. (Canva/Supplied) By Tandeep Sidhu, University of Manitoba The horrific details surrounding the shootout in Montréal, which left three dead, are coming to light as officials are sharing more information. A camouflage-clad gunman armed with a rifle ambushed Montréal police officers in the city’s Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood.

By Staff, the Energy Mix A wind farm on Indigenous land in Canada. (Indigenous Clean Energy/Supplied) A list of 251 clean energy projects with Indigenous participation, each of them capable of generating at least a megawatt of electricity, now account for more than one-tenth of Canada’s installed generating capacity, concludes a new national survey released by Indigenous Clean Energy (ICE).

A cyclist uses a recreational trail in Vancouver’s Stanley Park, one of the parks where AccessNow tracking is available. (Abigail Turner/Future of Good) The Vancouver Park Board has approved a pilot program to track the accessibility of parks and trails. The initiative is launched through the app AccessNow and is available at four locations, including the internationally recognized Stanley Park.

While the social finance fund has grown, it’s been uneven; venture capital has dominated, while geographic representation outside Ontario and B.C. remains limited for the Prairies, the North and the East Coast. (Canva/Supplied) This month, Realize Capital Partners, one of the three federal wholesalers of Canada’s Social Finance Fund, announced the final close of Realize Fund I at $276.7 million. For most Canadians working in the social sector, that sentence may feel distant from daily reality.