Ontario Human Rights Code

• Confederate flag outside Hamilton home raises questions around local hate-symbol laws

  A Hamilton-based registered nurse says she was shocked to drive by a Binbrook home donning the Confederate battle flag on a front porch.

  Canada

  Apr 27
  
• Ontario wedding videographer facing allegations of denying service to same-sex couples

  A wedding videographer is coming under fire on social media after a Facebook post suggested she denies service based on sexual orientation.

  Canada

  Jul 21, 2020
  
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• OPP no longer releasing gender of victims or the accused connected with crimes

  An OPP spokesperson said there will be exceptions to the rule in some instances particularly if officers need to use witness accounts during a search for a suspect.

  Crime

  Sep 23, 2019
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• London business’ anti-LGBTQ2 stance draws ire on social media

  In a Facebook post on Monday, London business Laser in Motion wrote: "We are not the only one business that does engraving. Feel free to go to others who are LGBT."

  Canada

  Jul 23, 2019
• Activists call on Hamilton to ban hate groups from using municipal parks, buildings

  CCAR's Ken Stone says that as a group, they encourage Hamilton politicians to "take a stand, by proclaiming that hate groups have no place in our city."

  Politics

  Mar 21, 2018
• Police hearing for two Toronto cops who mocked girl with Down syndrome postponed until Oct. 18

  Two police officers who were recorded on a dashboard camera video mocking a woman with Down syndrome had their disciplinary hearing in front of a tribunal adjourned until Oct. 18.

  Canada

  Sep 19, 2017
• Cleveland Indians complaint still alive at rights tribunal

  The complaint was filed last October, at the height of the playoffs, by indigenous activist and architect Douglas Cardinal, who alleged the team's name and logo amounted to racial discrimination.

  Canada

  Jun 5, 2017
• Ontario boy with autism can’t bring service dog into class, family goes to human rights tribunal

  The family says the Waterloo Catholic District School Board has told them allowing eight-year-old Kenner Fee to bring his black Labrador Ivy into the classroom is not necessary and would place undue hardship on school staff.

  Canada

  Mar 1, 2017
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• Toronto man denied subsidized housing for not being Muslim finally finds home

  A year after he was told he was ineligible to live in a subsidized apartment because he is not Muslim, Austin Lewis has found another place to live.

  Canada

  Sep 6, 2016
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• Toronto city councillor says Muslim-only subsidized housing is acceptable

  A Toronto city councillor says a provision that allows a city-subsidized apartment building access to Muslims-only is not unfair.

  Consumer

  Aug 26, 2015