Blog posts by Jason Robinson

Under the various Corporations Acts in Canada, incorporated not-for-profits are required to maintain minutes of their meetings. These include the minutes of meetings of members, meetings of committees, and meetings of directors. Minutes ser ...

Over the past several years, Zoom and Microsoft Teams have become two of the most widely used platforms for hosting online meetings. While both tools allow users to meet, chat, and share content online, the experience of running and partici ...

Conflict of interest (COI) can be a challenging issue to address within any organizational context, but it can become especially sensitive during member meetings, where questions about fairness, transparency, and ethical decision-making are ...

At Sport Law our team provides exceptional meeting support to sport organizations of all sizes. These include member, board, or committee meetings and in-person, virtual, or hybrid. Our goal is to help ensure that meetings meet the necessar ...

In Part 1 of our blogs on Special Meetings of Members we shared the process for calling a Special Meeting and the common questions that we receive. Part 2 of our series addresses the specific scenario when a director/officer is to be potent ...

Published May 31, 2023 Over the past year, we have noticed an increase in the requests to assist with Special Meetings of Members.  This blog focuses on the process of calling a Special Meeting of Members and the common questions that we re ...

Published on May 31, 2022 This blog is Part 3 of our ongoing virtual meeting roadshow, where we share our learnings and interesting moments from the hosting of online member meetings.  You can also read Part 1 and Part 2 in our blog archive ...

Published November 9, 2021 Since the onset of COVID-19 in March 2020, we have all shifted to a new virtual reality. When we posted our initial blog about hosting your AGM amidst COVID-19 and when we acquired a subscription to the Simply Vot ...

Published June 29, 2020 Since posting our earlier blogs about hosting your AGM amidst COVID-19 and SLSG’s  Simply Voting subscription to support sport organizations, the response from the sport community for virtual meeting support has ...

Published April 9, 2020 Earlier this week we blogged about the support that SLSG can provide for your meetings, as well as the latest federal and provincial updates on annual meetings. In our blog we shared that SLSG was investigating a pot ...