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Community engagement, time part of effort to tackle racism in Peel policing: OHRCEfforts to tackle systemic racism in the Peel Regional Police service will take time and lots of community engagement, the head of the Ontario Human Rights Commission says.CanadaAug 15, 2023
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Bill Blair says he oversaw culture change at Toronto police, not everyone agreesToronto police are still reckoning with systemic racism. In 2020, Ontario's human rights commission found Black residents were more likely than white to be killed by police.CanadaAug 5, 2023
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Crowding in jails close to pre-pandemic levels, Ontario Human Rights Commission saysBut it warns those numbers have been rising again for months, "as Ontario is facing the most serious stage of the pandemic so far."CanadaMay 11, 2021
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‘Impossibly long’: LTC waitlists, age discrimination among concerns in request for public inquiryIn Durham, Peterborough and Lindsay there are nearly 12,500 people on a wait list to get into long-term care.CanadaMar 24, 2021
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Ontario Human Rights Commission to look at anti-Indigenous racism in lacrosseThe commission says it will meet with Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation, the Ontario Lacrosse Association, and the Canadian Lacrosse Association in the coming months.CanadaDec 1, 2020
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Ontario SIU to collect race data as part of investigationsOntario's police watchdog says it will start collecting data on race as part of its investigations this fall, but only on a voluntary basis.CanadaAug 11, 2020
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Ontario Human Rights Commission announces new policy eliminating racial profilingPolice officers who are guilty of race-based discrimination should face disciplinary measures that include firing, the Ontario Human Rights Commission said on Friday as it released the country's first policy on racial profiling.CanadaSep 20, 2019
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Human Rights Commissioner says Barton Street jail needs to address ‘overcrowding’Ontario Human Rights Chief Renu Mandhane says better "resources" for disabilities and addictions, in addition to overcrowding, need to be addressed by the province.Aug 12, 2019
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Conditions at EMDC ‘among the worst’ in Ontario: human rights commissionerThe conditions also pose a serious risk to the health and safety of both inmates and correctional staff, Renu Mandhane writes.PoliticsMay 21, 2019
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Ontario Human Rights Commission launches inquiry into racial profiling by Toronto policeChief Commissioner Renu Mandhane says the inquiry will focus on the activities of the police service from Jan. 1, 2010, to June 30, 2017.CanadaNov 30, 2017
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