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Lifejacked: The Resilience PodcastAn Insider's Perspective of A Canadian Charity Scandal w/ Tawfiq RangwalaIn this episode, Dr. Ro interviews Tawfiq Rangwala, an attorney and former board member of the WE charity, a major Canadian children's charity that faced a scandal. Tawfiq shares his insider perspective on the rise and fall of the organization, drawing from his experience as a pro bono litigator. He discusses the lessons learned from the charity scandal and how he navigated the challenges as a board member. The WE charity, was a global youth empowerment organization that provided sustainable development projects and opportunities for young people. However, in 2020, the charity became embroiled in a political scandal in Canada, where...2024-10-0736 min
David WatsonThe David Watson Podcast #114 Canada's biggest Charity scandal. Why no one told the truthToday I spoke with Tawfiq Rangwala, former trustee of the WE Children's charity, Canada's largest children's charity.
It was torn apart by lies. Lies told by politicians and the media, and today I asked why no one told the truth and how Tawfiq was told by one of Canada's most prominent media outlets, they sourced their information from Google.
And even when presented with the public records from parliament, they, like many others refused to tell the truth. This sensationalism destroyed a charity, and no one has been held accountable.
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Law, Policy & MarketsBest of LPM: Muslim Cemetery Battles for Justice in Virginia – “So Lose Not Heart Nor Despair”Send us a textOriginally broadcast: Tuesday, December 14, 2021. A charity encounters surprising roadblocks to building a new cemetery for low-cost Muslim burials in Stafford County, Virginia. In this episode, host Allan Marks follows the cemetery’s path to justice with the lawyers who handled the civil rights case, Tawfiq Rangwala and Melanie Westover Yanez, and their pro bono client, the All Muslim Association of America, at the intersection of religious freedom, land use, and local politics in America today. For additional information, click here. About the SpeakersTawfiq Rangwala is a pa...2024-03-2839 min
I Am Refocused RadioTawfiq Rangwala - What WE Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada’s Largest Children’s CharityWhat WE Lost is a fact-based, book providing an inside account from respected lawyer and former WE Charity board member, Tawfiq Rangwala, who stepped down from the board to author this book and take readers behind the scenes. The rise and fall of a major children’s charity is unlike stories we have seen before – and it sets the record straight. He cuts through the headline-grabbing controversies and offers a sober perspective on what really happened, why it happened, who was responsible, and who really paid the price.Rangwala states: “I did not write this book to convince anyone to feel a...2024-03-0924 min
Rich Valdés America At NightDr. Carole Lieberman & Tawfiq RangwalaPsychiatrist Dr. Carole Lieberman joins us to discuss election anxiety. Next, attorney Tawfiq Rangwala fills us in on the downfall of Canada's largest children's charity which he details in his book "What WE Lost." Finally, we take your calls in open phones across America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices2024-02-132h 03
Better Call Paul36. Inside The Attack on Canada’s Largest Children’s CharityPaul interviews Tawfiq Rangwala, Milbank partner and former board member of WE Charity, regarding his #1 best-selling book, What We Lost. During 2020 and 2021, the WE Charity scandal was Canada's second-largest story behind the COVID pandemic.WE Charity was devoted to inspiring youth to make the world a better place and attracted the support of celebrities, politicians and thousands more people worldwide, including Justin Trudeau, Selena Gomez, and Martin Sheen. Paul and Tawfiq discuss the misperceptions and half-truths behind the political and media firestorm that led to the downfall of WE Charity.For more info on Tawfiq and...2022-10-1947 min
What We Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada's Largest Children's CharityThe Road AheadJustin Trudeau won another election, albeit with another minority government, and Charlie Angus and Pierre Poilievre held onto their seats, with the latter making a bid the Conservative leadership. Jesse Brown was named one of Toronto Life’s Top 50 most influential Torontonians, and a dozen journalists earned accolades for their coverage of the CSSG controversy. Everyone seemed to benefit from the controversy except the millions of youth in Canada who benefited from WE Charity. What does this mean for them? And what’s next for the organization? What does this say about the future of Canada?2022-09-1440 min
What We Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada's Largest Children's CharityThe Fifth EstateNo media organization was more enthusiastic in its unwarranted crusade against WE Charity than the CBC, specifically Fifth Estate journalists Harvey Cashore and Mark Kelley. Their reporting escalated from recycling well-trodden issues around the CSSG to them soon breaking laws in Kenya, and they ignored any evidence that would prove their hypothesis wrong. They had a story in mind, and they were going to tell it no matter how many donors pointed out the flaws in their research, or youth and employees spoke about their positive experiences or forensic audits were produced.2022-09-142h 03
What We Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada's Largest Children's CharityAn International AffairIt wasn’t just politicians and pundits looking to benefit from the CSSG controversy. Reed Cowan, a journalist and former WE Charity donor decided to step into the fray for his 15 seconds of fame. Cowan soon sought to extort the charity for more than $40 million, for his silence. WE Charity was proud of its work in developing countries and had nothing to hide. Beneficiaries of their work and forensic auditors concurred. But those voices were ignored by the media for more salacious headlines. What was the real story before the headlines?2022-09-141h 30
What We Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada's Largest Children's CharityManufactured OutrageWE Charity started to wind down in Canada, but that didn’t mean that politicians and the media were done with trying to tear down its reputation. Politicians like Charlie Angus and Pierre Poilievre were again taking every opportunity to score political points, and they cared little about the collateral damage. Conservatives called on their army of supporters to harass owners of a speaker’s bureau, and Angus bullied a man suffering from a brain aneurysm. And of course, the Kielburgers were called to testify for another unprecedented three hours. Was anything really accomplished from this?2022-09-1459 min
What We Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada's Largest Children's CharityClosing DoorsBill Morneau resigned his role as Finance Minister, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prorogued Parliament, leaving WE Charity to twist in the wind. As a result of the partisan politics and often inaccurate media reporting, WE Charity faced a difficult and devastating decision – closing its doors in Canada. Politicians and pundits like Pierre Poilievre and Jesse Brown claimed it was nothing more than a publicity stunt. But what was really behind the board’s decision to close the charity in Canada?2022-09-1400 min
What We Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada's Largest Children's CharityPolitical RoadkillMarc and Craig Kielburger’s lives had become a nightmare. The organization they had built from nothing was clinging to survival, they were working 18-hour days to keep their heads above water, and their families were receiving almost daily death threats. In the midst of all this, they were called to testify before the parliamentary committee looking into the CSSG controversy. Instead of answering lingering questions about the program, they faced four hours of relentless attacks from MPs looking for nothing more than to score political points.2022-09-1447 min
What We Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada's Largest Children's CharityA Question of GovernanceMichelle Douglas had resigned as chair WE Charity’s board of directors in March 2020, a month before the organization was recruited to help deliver the CSSG. She had no knowledge of the program or the details of how it came to be. But her untimely resignation and public statements made her a star witness for partisan politicians, like Charlie Angus and Pierre Poilievre, who were not really interested in hearing the truth. But what is the true story behind her resignation? And how did the charity’s board really operate?2022-09-141h 09
What We Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada's Largest Children's CharityHigh and DryBy mid-July, during testimony before a parliamentary committee, politicians and bureaucrats all confirmed what WE Charity had been saying from the beginning – the CSSG was not initiated by the charity but by the government. There was no scheme to bail out the organization. But what should have been a dignified and sober-minded pursuit of the truth on behalf of the Canadian people quickly devolved into a partisan circus, with politicians like Charlie Angus and Pierre Poilievre taking the lead.2022-09-1436 min
What We Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada's Largest Children's CharityBIPOC ReckoningCOVID was not the only force causing global upheaval across the spring and summer of 2020. In May 2020, George Floyd was murdered by a white police officer, and ignited Black Lives Matter protests around the world. Like many other organizations around the world, WE Charity was forced to re-examine its own conduct and policies. Tawfiq Rangwala takes you inside the process he helped lead as a former board member.2022-09-1338 min
What We Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada's Largest Children's CharityOpen Floodgates At the height of the CSSG controversy, media eagerly fed on the opinions of politicians like Charlie Angus and Pierre Poilievre or pundits like Kate Bahen and Jesse Brown, while at the same time failing to seek out the perspectives of those with firsthand experience of the organization, like students and teachers. In this episode, we get to the truth about WE’s corporate partnerships and WE Day, and how both benefited millions of youth and educators around the world.2022-09-1351 min
What We Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada's Largest Children's CharityPiling OnConservative MP Pierre Poilievre and NDP MP Charlie Angus were two of the loudest voices to leverage WE Charity in attempt to take down the Trudeau government. But inside the echo chamber, they had some help from pundits like Charity Intelligence’s Kate Bahen, lawyer Mark Blumberg and Canadaland publisher Jesse Brown. Martin Luther King III continues narrating the What WE Lost podcast. The true story of their possible motives and the ripple effect of their attacks on a children’s charity.2022-09-131h 23
What We Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada's Largest Children's CharityThe Storm After the CalmIn this episode, Martin Luther King III narrates how conservative Pierre Poilievre and the NDP’s Charlie Angus appear to have very little in common at first glance. But that did not stop them from playing an outsized role in fuelling misperceptions about the charity and its operations. Instead of celebrating the success of the CCSG launch – with 35,000 youth applicants – media were immediately critical of the CSSG program from the onset. Martin Luther King III continues to narrate the What WE Lost podcast. This is the real story behind some of the most critical headlines.2022-09-121h 31
What We Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada's Largest Children's CharityMission CreepIt was supposed to be a $40-million program supporting 20,000 students, but at the urging of government bureaucrats, the CSSG ballooned in size to support 100,000 students with a maximum price tag of $543 million. How did it balloon in size in a matter of weeks? Why did WE Charity Foundation really sign the contribution agreement? What government misstep almost made WE Charity pull out of the program before it even launched? Martin Luther King III goes further into what really happened in the What WE Lost podcast. This is the insider’s story you won’t hear from politicians like Prime Mini...2022-09-1248 min
What We Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada's Largest Children's CharityA Call to ServeMartin Luther King III goes further into the controversy in this episode of the What WE Lost Podcast. The CSSG program was not a 'government bail out' for the organization as politicians like Charlie Angus and Pierre Poilievre would have you believe. Instead, it started with government bureaucrats looking for a solution and believing WE Charity, with its 25-year track record, was the solution. Listen to Martin Luther King III narrate the What WE Lost podcast, starting with the call from Rachel Wernick that changed everything.2022-09-1255 min
What We Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada's Largest Children's CharityGood Enough is Not Good Enough“Whatever the criticism, one thing is clear: the attack on WE was really, in many ways, an attack on the character and credibility of its co-founders, Craig and Marc Kielburger.” Martin Luther King III reads The What WE Lost podcast. Listen as Tawfiq Rangwala takes a look back at the Kielburger brothers while also demystifying some of the bigger criticisms of the organization – from ME to WE to its culture to real estate policy – to dispel some of the myths at the centre of the CSSG controversy.2022-09-121h 23
What We Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada's Largest Children's CharityBad OmensAt the start of 2020, just months before the Canada Student Services Grant controversy dominated headlines, WE was riding high, gearing up to celebrate its' 25th anniversary and planning for the next 25 years. But with a global pandemic declared in March, the organization had to make some quick and difficult decisions. Read by Martin Luther King III, this is the What WE Lost podcast episode 2. Lets look at the truth behind those decisions and how they set up the organization for long term stability.2022-09-1257 min
What We Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada's Largest Children's CharityIntroduction to What WE Lost PodcastAs a past member of WE Charity’s board of directors, Tawfiq Rangwala had a front row seat to the CSSG controversy as it unfolded. He resigned from the board and decided to write a book about what he witnessed first hand, Read by Martin Luther King III, this podcast showcases Tawfiq's decision to write What WE Lost and about what really happened in what became known as the "WE Charity scandal". Martin Luther King III reads the What WE Lost podcast.2022-09-1234 min
Culture At A CrossroadsTawfiq Rangwala on another side to the We Charity ScandalLawyer and former WE board member Tawfiq Rangwala chats about his new book, What We Lost. He shares details that we may have missed about the charity's work, including insight on the Kielburger brothers, dating back to childhood. Read more.2022-07-2925 min
Law, Policy & MarketsInside Canada’s WE Charity Scandal: It’s Not What You ThoughtSend us a textA Canadian scandal holds a mirror up to media and politics in Canada, with implications for the US and other advanced democracies, and it's not a pretty picture.In this episode, host Allan Marks speaks with Milbank Litigation partner Tawfiq Rangwala about his new book What WE Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada’s Largest Children’s Charity, misinformation and political gamesmanship. What WE Lost, which is a national bestseller in Canada, offers a behind-the-scenes account of the rise and fall of WE Charity, a Canada-based non-profit focused on yout...2022-06-3039 min
Immerse Yourself In This Addictive Full Audiobook — Perfect In The Car.What WE Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada's Largest Children's Charity by Tawfiq S. RangwalaPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602825to listen full audiobooks.
Title: What WE Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada's Largest Children's Charity
Author: Tawfiq S. Rangwala
Narrator: Martin Luther King Iii
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 18 hours 3 minutes
Release date: June 23, 2022
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
WE Charity had changed the game. In its 25 years, the international development charity and youth empowerment movement impacted lives the world over. Innovation was at its core: while most charities focus on making the world a better place for our children, WE Charity focused on making better children for our world. Founded by the ubiquitous...2022-06-236h 03
Listen to Latest Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceWhat WE Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada's Largest Children's Charity by Tawfiq S. RangwalaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602825 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What WE Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada's Largest Children's Charity Author: Tawfiq S. Rangwala Narrator: Martin Luther King Iii Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 3 minutes Release date: June 23, 2022 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: WE Charity had changed the game. In its 25 years, the international development charity and youth empowerment movement impacted lives the world over. Innovation was at its core: while most charities focus on making the world a better place for our children, WE Charity focused on making better children for our world. Founded by the...2022-06-2305 minListen to Latest Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceWhat WE Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada's Largest Children's Charity by Tawfiq S. RangwalaPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602825to listen full audiobooks.
Title: What WE Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada's Largest Children's Charity
Author: Tawfiq S. Rangwala
Narrator: Martin Luther King Iii
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 18 hours 3 minutes
Release date: June 23, 2022
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
WE Charity had changed the game. In its 25 years, the international development charity and youth empowerment movement impacted lives the world over. Innovation was at its core: while most charities focus on making the world a better place for our children, WE Charity focused on making better children for our world. Founded by the ubiquitous...2022-06-236h 03
Bill Kelly ShowWE Charity says it became a victim of Trudeau Liberals' errorsWhat We Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada’s Largest Children’s Charity. The book—which tells the untold story behind the now infamous WE Charity Scandal—is written by lawyer and former WE Charity board member, Tawfiq Rangwala. He joined us on the Bill Kelly Show to discuss.
GUEST: Tawfiq Rangwala, Author of this book and former WE Charity board member2022-05-0417 min
Law, Policy & MarketsMuslim Cemetery Battles for Justice in Virginia: “So Lose Not Heart Nor Despair”Send us a textA charity encounters surprising roadblocks to building a new cemetery for low-cost Muslim burials in Stafford County, Virginia. In this episode, host Allan Marks follows the cemetery’s path to justice with the lawyers who handled the civil rights case, Tawfiq Rangwala and Melanie Westover Yanez, and their pro bono client, the All Muslim Association of America, at the intersection of religious freedom, land use, and local politics in America today.About the Speakers Tawfiq Rangwala is a partner in Milbank’s New York office and a memb...2021-12-1439 min