Board Functions: Multicultural Association and Festival

board functions: The three remaining members are also selling off the organization's assets after its charitable status was revoked in March, according to CBC. Halifax's Multicultural Festival cancelled after financial difficulties A CBC News investigation last May revealed that after 32 years, the festival would not go ahead and details about the organization's precarious financial situation trickled out. After months of silence, current members of the Multicultural Association of Nova Scotia are speaking out about what went wrong. The association's office was packed up last spring when it announced the 2016 festival would be cancelled. A board functions and a board hires staff to do certain things and they're in control of that staff, said Phinney. Angela Mac Ivor/CBC Interim president Debbie Phinney joined last year, and said she saw warning flags from her very first board meeting. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.