•CRA refused application for charitable registration and this
refusal was confirmed following objection
•Organization appealed on the basis that its purposes fell
within two heads of charity, the advancement of education and other
purposes beneficial to the community as a whole in a way which the
law regards as charitable
•Advancement of education - the Court determined that while
the production and dissemination of in-depth news and public
affairs programs may improve the sum of communicable knowledge
about current affairs, such activities are not sufficiently
structured to meet the test established in Vancouver Society
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