Deina Warren

Dec 20, 2024 | cccc.org | Deina Warren

Last week, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance (Committee) released Report 21, Pre-Budget Consultations in Advance of the 2025 Budget. Buried in the 300-page report are two deeply troubling recommendations about charitable status. Namely, that the government:No longer provide charitable status to anti-abortion organizations (#429);Amend the Income Tax Act to provide a definition of charity which would remove the privileged status of “advancement of religion” as a charitable purpose.

Jun 27, 2024 | faithtoday.ca | Deina Warren

Guest columnist Deina Warren reflects on seeking the welfare of the city Growing up I didn’t know any lawyers, let alone a Christian lawyer. Although I was intrigued when “lawyer” often turned up on my high school career assessments, it seemed out of reach. Business was a more practical choice. And yet God kept opening doors for me to work in law. But is law a Christian calling? Aren’t lawyers the ones who tested Jesus and to whom Jesus proclaimed woes?

Mar 4, 2024 | thephilanthropist.ca | Sue Bookchin |Emily Powers |Sharon Riley |Deina Warren

(Cet article est disponible en français.)​In recent decades, the murder of 14 female engineering (and one nursing) students at Montreal’s École Polytechnique in 1989 was the defining mass shooting in Canada many of us could remember. Every year since then, this event is marked by 16 days of activism culminating on December 6, the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. The shooter was a fellow student who blamed his female peers for his struggles.