[CaptainYooh]

To suggest that Flames' charity is somehow crooked, driven by ulterior motives or evil-spirited is patently asinine. Each member of the ownership group has donated millions of dollars (of their own money and corporately) to various charities. In fact, verified by people like Harley Hotchkiss and Doc Seaman, one of the conditions of belonging to the Flames ownership group was member's personal charitable generosity.

Those suggesting that the Foundation should transfer all of the money donated to charitable causes don't really understand how it works. Example: say, Flames Foundation invites to its golf tournament and people buy the tickets for $500. Net "profit" after all expenses paid, could be $100 x 288 participants. Plus all the prize donations and mulligan sales etc. The efficiency is 20%. But it doesn't mean that 288 people would have donated $500, if this was a straight-up donation request from the Flames Foundation. Companies and individuals pay $500 and more to rub shoulders with the Flames players, coaches and other staff, to have a nice dinner, to meet other business people, to hear fun stories from Peter Maher and Ken King and, generally, to be entertained, while doing something nice. $100 net donation is a product of this entertainment and it's a great way of doing it.