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Delta Bingo and Gaming Sudbury is once again stepping up to continue a happy holiday tradition by giving to families in need in Sudbury.

For the 29th consecutive year, Delta Bingo and Gaming Sudbury and its Charitable Gaming partners – Sudbury Charities Foundation and ACT/UCT Sudbury – are spreading holiday cheer by helping local organizations provide Christmas turkeys and holiday meals to families across Greater Sudbury, said a company news release.

Since 1996, this well known community initiative, founded by Ray Loiselle, has helped thousands of families share a warm holiday meal together, said the release. To date, the program has contributed an estimated $425,000 to The Salvation Army to continue to support local families in need.

The success is thanks to many local partnerships, said the release. The continued partnership of organizations such as Club Richelieu de Sudbury, Ten Rainbows Children’s Foundation, and the Minnow Lake Lions Club ensures the initiative reaches approximately 1,200 families each Christmas.

Christina Nupponen, Charity Association Coordinator, said the effort is more than giving free food.

“This event has always been about more than providing a turkey; it’s about bringing hope and

comfort to our community,” said Nupponen.

“Each year, I’m inspired by the generosity of our local charities and the difference this partnership makes in the lives of so many families. The continued support and compassion shown by our community truly captures the spirit of the holiday season,” she added.

This year, the tradition grew even stronger, said the release. In addition to supporting the Christmas turkey campaign, ACT-UCT donated a total of $50,000 to local community groups such as Inner City Home, Better Beginnings Better Futures, Go-Give Project, Our Children Our Future, Camp Quality, House of Kin, and Maison McCulloch Hospice, allowing even more local families and individuals to experience the spirit of the season. said Delta.

Funds raised through Delta Bingo and Gaming Sudbury’s Charitable Gaming partners continue to empower our charitable groups to make a difference in the lives of thousands in our community.

Partnered donations like these make long-standing programs possible, reflecting the lasting impact of Charitable Gaming in building stronger, more connected communities, said the release.

Delta Bingo and Gaming Sudbury is an innovator in the charitable gaming industry, offering both paper and electronic bingo as well as Vegas-style gaming machines. Delta Bingo Sudbury has been proudly serving the community since 1984, helping to raise over $55 million for local charities, said the release.

A Vancouver-based company hopes Canadians look to keep some of their investment dollars local and create an impact — even as the trend of money flowing south of the border looks set to continue into 2026.

In 2025, the “Buy Canadian” movement took off amid the ongoing tariff war and U.S. President Donald Trump’s public threats to make the country the 51st state.

But despite the surge in interest in Canadian products, the country’s investors steadfastly continued to park their financial assets offshore this year — with much of it in the U.S.

One financial adviser says that just like buying Canadian, the idea of investing domestically may have cooled off since the beginning of 2025.

Daisy Mak, a certified financial planner at Vancouver Financial Planners, said a broad swath of her clients came to her looking to invest Canadian assets when Trump was re-elected.

“My advice was just to point out, ‘OK, so how do you think we’re gonna do this?’” Mak said.

“We can’t 100 per cent divest away from the U.S.,” she added. “It’s just not practical and it’s not realistic.”

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Mak said that despite Canada’s banking and insurance sectors continuing to be a wise investment decision, the country still has to catch up in other sectors like technology or pharmaceuticals.

While investing in Canada should be a part of your portfolio, she explained it should be a smaller part of a diversified portfolio that takes other countries into account.

“It’s one thing to say, ‘I’m gonna go all Canadian,’ but … I feel like you’re cutting off your nose to spite your face,” the financial planner said.

Hopes for local investments

Statistics Canada recently revealed U.S. financial assets accounted for $111 billion of the foreign securities acquired by Canadians in the first three quarters of 2025.

That works out to be 92 per cent of the total, with Canada recording a net outflow of $61.9 billion from January to September when it came to securities transactions.

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Despite the overwhelming trends, Blake Bunting, the Vancouver-based co-founder of GoParity Canada, says his online investment platform felt the surge in Canadian patriotism this year.

“A lot of folks want to be investing, and making a return on their investment, but knowing that money actually is doing something positive for the community,” he said.

GoParity calls itself a “community capital” or crowd-lending platform, where Bunting says users usually chip in between $1,500 and $2,500 to help community projects with loans.

The investors then earn money on the interest from the loans, with projects as diverse as clean energy on Vancouver Island or an Indigenous-run daycare in Stephenville, N.S.

“It’s not moving all of your assets into supporting small businesses, it’s a portion of that — to know that … you can have a really outsized impact compared to, say, the majority of your portfolio,” Bunting said.

Responsible investing still valued

A Nov. 25 report from the Responsible Investment Association found that for wealth managers, it remained important that investments are well-certified through an environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) framework.

Over 80 Canadian asset and investment managers indicated in the survey that greenhouse gas emissions and climate change mitigation remained amongst the top considerations when making their organization’s investment decisions, despite a pushback championed by Trump on net zero policies.

But the report notes “negative media coverage” of responsible investment from other jurisdictions is the top factor that could deter the growth of responsible investing.

“This isn’t necessarily a surprise given the myriad of anti-ESG headlines witnessed over the last year,” the report shared.

“Mistrust/concerns about greenwashing was surpassed by negative media coverage and is now much less of a concern.”

For Bunting, his platform offers more than a way for investors to feel like they’re supporting environmentally-sustainable projects, like a rooftop solar project in Port Hardy.

He says offering small businesses smaller-scale funding options like GoParity means they can get help at a time when money is tight.

“There’s no shortage of businesses that are looking for financing that don’t quite meet the bank’s criteria,” he said.

“This is a market that is growing fast in Canada, and it continues to grow,” he added. “And … it’s not even really competing against banks, we’re filling gaps where the banks aren’t.”