Canada Post strike hits charity fundraising during crucial holiday donation push

The planning began back in October. That’s when staff at House of Compassion, a Toronto charity that offers supportive, affordable housing to those with severe mental illness, finalized the design for their annual holiday card to send to potential donors. By early November, they’d printed the 400 cards and had started signing and stuffing them into envelopes. Then the Canada Post strike happened.Since then, the holiday cards – which each year bring in a substantial portion of the small charity’s fundraising – have been sitting, unmailed, in the office.