British Columbia will once again have a Human Rights Commission. Newly in-power NDP Premier John Horgan made the announcement last week, returning the commission to the province after it was shuttered 15 years ago. The…
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Candice Lewis is a 25 year old Newfoundland & Labrador woman reported to be living with a number of conditions, including spina bifida, cerebral palsy, and chronic seizure disorder. Lewis was in a St. Anthony hospital in November…
On Thursday, July 27, Justice Wagner of the Supreme Court of Canada granted intervener status to nine out of twenty-six potential interveners in the case of Trinity Western University v. Law Society of Upper Canada…
The Quebec Human Rights Tribunal has found that a Montreal-area mechanic dismissed an employee due to the cost of his medication and that the dismissal constituted discrimination. At issue was whether the employee, MC, was…
Earlier this month it was revealed that the Canadian government was settling with Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen who had spent eight years in detention at a US naval base in Cuba known as Guantanamo…
Trinity Western University is the first party to file its factum in its appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada in the case of Trinity Western University v. Law Society of Upper Canada. As has…
With the help of the Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse, a Montreal man has prevailed over his former employer at the Human Rights Tribunal of Quebec. Richard Zilberg…
The Toronto Star is reporting that five employees of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) have filed a $35 million lawsuit against CSIS alleging that it is a toxic workplace and that their managers made…
With the support of the Center for Research-Action on Race Relations (CRARR), a Laval, Quebec resident is filing a complaint to the police ethics board asserting that police followed him, knocked his phone from his…
Justice Nicholas Kasirer of the Court of Appeal of Quebec has issued a safeguard order to temporarily avert a total shutdown of the Indian Act status registration process, following a failure of the federal government…
