Line in the advocacy sand being drawn for NGOs

Development groups say they are being forced to choose between principles and funding.

Published February 24, 2010

Standing metres away from the room where he'd just addressed the all-party coalition to combat anti-Semitism, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney was surrounded by reporters clamouring for answers.

Two months earlier, Kairos had learned CIDA was cutting its funding. Initially the government said it was because the ecumenical development and advocacy NGO didn't fit the aid agency's priorities.

Then...

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