World Wildlife Fund: Big Brothers

Big Sisters Dept: A spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper denies the allegations, according to CTV. Tides gets most of its money from private foundations and assists a wide array of social and environmental charities in Canada -- from Big Brothers and Big Sisters to the World Wildlife Fund. It also partners with major corporations and governments, including federal government agencies and a former employee of an environmental group critical of a proposed oilsands pipeline says the Prime Minister's Office threatened a funding agency if it didn't pull its support for the group. In a sworn affidavit released Tuesday to The Canadian Press, Andrew Frank says he was told by his supervisor at ForestEthics that a PMO official had referred to their organization as an "enemy of the state." The affidavit describes how staff were told their jobs were at risk after the official told Tides Canada, which supports the work of ForestEthics, that the government would "take down" all of the agency's projects unless it cut ForestEthics loose. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.