Please note: The 2009 tax returns for the Tides Canada Foundation and for the Tides Canada Initiatives Society were not posted on-line at the web-site of Revenue Canada until sometime well into September 2010. For this reason, the figures referred to in the letters sent prior to September 2010, refer to revenue and expenditures for the period of 2000 - 2008, not including 2009.
2012:
- February 1, 2012 "grossly misrepresent"
- February 1, 2012 Forest Ethics
- February 20, 2012 TCF Hewlett's "strategic plan" to address oil & gas in B.C.
- March 7, 2012 One Mega $7.7 Million Grant
- March 7, 2012 $50 Million from 3 U.S. Foundations
- March 9, 2012 $37 Million granted from Tides Canada Foundation to Tides Canada Initiatives
- March 9,2012 Tides Canada's Grantees: A Few Large ENGOs & First Nations
- March 13, $37 Million granted to Tides Canada Initiatives
- February 27, 2012 "grossely misrepresents"
- February 27, 2012 "No Position?" On The Oilsands?"
- February 27, 2012 RE: 20 Questions for Tides Canada, Part 1
- March 29, 2012 RE: Budget Allocation of $8 Million to the CRA
- March 7, 2012 RE: Staff Size & Payroll
2011:
Correspondence with the Lawyer of Tides Canada:
- My response (March 11, 2011) to the lawyer's letter (March 7, 2011)
- My response (May 21, 2011) to the lawyer's letter (March 16, 2011)
Letters to Tides Canada and the Endswell Foundation:
- Jan. 4, 2011, Endswell stocks & bonds in oil & gas companies & pipelines, 1997-1999
- Jan. 6, 2011, Letter to Endswell & Tides Canada
- Jan. 7, 2011, Endswell stocks & bonds
- Jan. 7, 2011, Tides USA grants to Tides Canada for $4 Million
- Jan. 14, 2011, Open Letter to Joel Solomon
- Jan. 14, 2011, Bullitt grant for $50,000 to make Vancouver the "Greenest city"
- Jan. 19, 2011, Bullitt grant for $50,000 to make Vancouver the "Greenest City"
- Jan. 20, 2011, Tides Canada's comment that it has "no stand" for or against Alberta oil
- Jan. 22, 2011, $705,040 grant from Tides Canada for land trust work in Nova Scotia
- Jan. 17, 2011, Endswell stocks & bonds in oil & gas companies, 1997 - 1999
- Jan. 31, 2011, Rockefeller Brothers funding for a web-site about Alberta tourism
- Jan. 31, 2011, Rockefeller Brothers Funding of Greenpeace web-site through Tides Canada
- Feb. 2, 2011, $90,125 for Organizing for Change
- Feb. 10, 2011, funding from the Wilburforce Foundation (Microsoft founder)
- Feb. 11, 2011, Organizing for Change
- Feb. 11, 2011, Open Media
- Feb. 18, 2011, Grantee Support for $3.3 million: Who got $903,480 in 2009?
- Feb. 18, 2011, Organizing for Change
- Feb. 21, 2011, Organizing for Change & Groundwire
- Feb. 23, 2011, Dogwood Initiative
- March 4, 2011 Is Tides Canada still a client of FD Element?
- March 30, 2011 $26 Million from Canadian foundations (2000 - 2 009)
- March 30, 2011 25 Grants to Tides Canada Initiatives Society for $5.3 Million
- March 30, 2011 $26 Million granted from Tides Canada Foundation (TCF) to Tides Canada Initiatives Society (TCIS): Why?
- May 4, 2011, $26 Million granted "internally" from TCF to TCIS
- May 4, 2011, 27 Canadian Foundations that fund Tides Canada
- May 4, 2011 25 Grants for $5.3 Million
- May 9, 2011 $7 Million granted to 20 organizations
- May 9, 2011 HALF of Tides Canada's granats for B.C.'s North Coast
- May 10, 2011 "ZERO" Political Activity
- May 10, 2011, Open Media Funding
- May 10, 2011, Open Media draft post
- May 16, 2011 Grants for Organizations on Cortes Island for $1.3 Million (2000-2009)
- May 16, 2011 Companies in which Renewal Partners Has Invested
- September 8, 2011 Marine Protection or Market Protection: Why did the David & Lucile Packard Foundation Help to Start Tides Canada?
- September 8, 2011 The "Strategic Plan" that the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation Paid Tides Canada $70,000 (2004)to Develop A Strategic Plan to Address the Oil & Gas Industry in British Columbia
- September 27, 2011 $26 Million from the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation
- October 12, 2011 Vision Vancouver's Biggest Funder: Who is Renewal Partners?
- October 21, 2011 Hank's Beach, Treedom Ventures Ltd, etc.
- October 24, 2011 Linnaea Farm Society
- October 31, 2011 Foreign Income & Staff Size Increase from 37 (2006) to 251 (2010)
- October 31, 2011 How Far Back Does Gregor Robertson Go With Tides?
- October 31, 2011 Please Make Public U.S. Tax Returns
- October 31, 2011 Hank's Beach
- November 10, 2011, How Tides Canada Used $200 Million
- November 22, 2011 - The "Strategic Plan" to Address Oil & Gas in B.C.
- November 22, 2011 Tides Canada Compared to the Fraser Institute & the Vancouver Foundation
2010:
Correspondence with the Lawyer of Tides Canada:
- My response (Dec. 6, 2010) to the lawyer's letter of December 2010.
- My response (Dec. 7, 2010) to the lawyer's letter of December 7, 2010.
- My response (Dec. 10, 2010) to the lawyer's letter of December 8, 2010.
Letters to Tides Canada, Tides U.S.A. and the Endswell Foundation:
Note: The draft documents sent to Tides Canada on 23 November 2010 will be revised on the basis of comments received in a letter dated 2 December 2010 from the lawyer of Tides Canada, Mr. James H. Goulden of Bull, Housser & Tupper. The drafts have been removed.
- November 25, 2010: Revised spreadsheets posted here.
- November 23, 2010 RE: Requesting feedback on two draft documents which compile the questions that I have tried to ask, to date:
- "Fair Questions About the Assets, Revenue, Expenditures, Political Activity and Other Activities of Tides Canada and The Endswell Foundation."
- "Fair Questions About Tides-Funded Activities to "Reform" The Oil & Gas Industry in Canada."
- November 22, 2010: Where did Tides Canada get $33.6 Million?
- November 2, 2010: Response to letters in the Financial Post & the Vancouver SUN
- November 2, 2010: CEO Compensation: $53,092 in 2007 and $143,236 in 2008?
- October 26, 2010 Re: The $11.4 million dollar question
- October 22, 2010 Re: Why its fair to inquire about Tides Canada's revenue & expenditures
- October 22, 2010 Re: Draft blog posts about Tides Canada's revenues & expenditures
- October 15, 2010 Re: Invitation to comment at this blog
- October 4, 2010 Re: 12 Tides-affiliated charities, businesses & Vision Vancouver
- October 4, 2010 Re: 36 organizations paid by Tides to campaign against Alberta oil
- September 27, 2010 Re: The $11.4 million dollar question
- September 13, 2010 Re: Endswell's revenue & expenditures (1997-2009) (Grants)
- August 6, 2010 Attachments:
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- Endswell Expenditures (1997 - 2009): An Analysis
- Endswell Excerpts from U.S. tax returns (1997 - 2008)
- Endswell Grants (2003 - 2009)
- July 7, 2010: e-mail to Tides Canada (RE: Tides Canada's U.S. tax returns)
- July 6, 2010: e-mail to Joel Solomon
- July 6, 2010: e-mail to Tides Canada (RE: attached letter)
- July 5, 2010: Letter to Tides Canada (also sent to Mayor Gregor Robertson)
Prior to June of 2010, the reason that I was wrote to Tides Canada was to inquire about funding to the Farmed & Dangerous campaign, and grants to Alexandra Morton's non-profit. Tides Canada has said that it gave three grants to Alexandra Morton's non-profit organization but so far, Tides Canada has not said where these grants originated.
- June 28, 2010: e-mail to Tides Canada
- June 23, 2010: Letter to Tides Canada
- March 31, 2010: e-mail to Ross McMillan, Tides Canada
- February 4, 2010: e-mail to Tides Canada
- January 15, 2010: Response from Tides Canada
2009:
- November 26, 2009: Letter to Tides Canada Foundation
2007:
May 17, 2007 - July 25, 2007: e-mails to Tides Canada Foundation
