Ontario Human Rights
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Ontario has failed to follow segregation rules, human rights commission saysThe Ontario Human Rights Commission says the province has failed to keep inmates with mental health disabilities out of segregation.CanadaAug 25, 2020
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Human rights commission criticizes Ontario’s proposed changes to inmate segregationThe changes, the commission says in a submission, do not address practices found to violate both the Canadian charter and the Ontario human rights code.CanadaOct 17, 2019
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Human rights commission launches inquiry into reading levels among Ontario studentsThe Right to Read inquiry will hear from school boards, educators, parents and students across the province.CanadaOct 3, 2019
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Sister of inmate who died at EMDC to walk 180 km to demand changes at troubled jailAfter a damning letter from the Ontario human rights commissioner about the jail, one woman is embarking on a 180-kilometre walk to demand changes.PoliticsMay 24, 2019
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Ontario’s solicitor questioned about EMDC in wake of damning letter from human rights commissionerThe solicitor general was in St. Thomas to announce mental health funding but wound up taking questions about the Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre.CrimeMay 24, 2019
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York U student to use mediation to raise issues with university sexual violence policyA student who filed a human rights complaint against an Ontario university after she was sexually assaulted by another student says the school's new guidelines for responding to sexual violence fall short.CanadaNov 9, 2016
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Toronto man alleges discrimination based on disability by mall owner RioCanAndrew Sprague's human rights complaint against RioCan, the largest real estate investment trust in Canada, has gone all of the way to a Human Rights Tribunal.May 27, 2015
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Outgoing human rights chief says racism still persists in OntarioOntario has made progress in combating the scourge of racism and other forms of discrimination but the fight is far from over, the outgoing head of the province's human rights commission says.PoliticsFeb 25, 2015
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