Brian Iler
Brian Iler is a contributor to rabble's Pro Bono column. He is a partner at Iler Campbell LLP where he advises many of Ontario's co-operatives, non-profits and charities. Iler is counsel to the Ontario Co-operative Association and recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a founding director of the TREC Renewable Energy Co-operative, which erected the wind turbine at Exhibition Place in Toronto, and the Community Power Fund, which provides financing for community-based sustainable energy projects. As a member of the Board of Directors of the Centre for Social Innovation, he advised it on its recent purchase of 720 Bathurst Street, Toronto, and the Community Bond offering made to finance it. He is a member of the Ontario Non-profit Network's Expert Advisory Panel and author of much of its critique of the new Ontario Non-profit Corporations Act.

Public interest should be central to regulation of charities' political activities
A taxing matter: Non-profits await change from Liberal government
Climate in election 2015: The time for action is now
Carding and civilian control of police
Charities and the limits of political action under the Harper government
Why Canada needs more community power
Report from international summit in Quebec City: 'The Amazing Power of Co-operatives'
The growth of community-owned green energy in Canada
