Ontario Human Rights Commission

• Crown pre-charge screening would reduce racial profiling in Ontario, commission says

  The Ontario Human Rights Commission is recommending the province introduce a system that would see police consult with prosecutors before charging suspects.

  Crime

  Jul 29
• Ontario Human Rights Commission to look at anti-Indigenous racism in lacrosse

  The 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.

  Canada

  Dec 1, 2020
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• Peel Regional Police, Ontario Human Rights Commission sign agreement to root out systemic racism

  Peel Regional Police, its board and the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) have signed a memorandum of understanding pledging to come up with, and implement, legally binding measures to end systemic racism in policing.

  Canada

  Oct 20, 2020
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• Ontario has failed to follow segregation rules, human rights commission says

  The Ontario Human Rights Commission says the province has failed to keep inmates with mental health disabilities out of segregation.

  Canada

  Aug 25, 2020
• Critics worried report on Toronto police reform will amount to nothing but ‘lip service’

  The Ontario Human Rights Commission said it is worried the report presented at Tuesday's Toronto Police Services Board meeting "will amount to mere lip service."

  Canada

  Aug 18, 2020
• Ontario SIU to collect race data as part of investigations

  Ontario's police watchdog says it will start collecting data on race as part of its investigations this fall, but only on a voluntary basis.

  Canada

  Aug 11, 2020
• Black people ‘disproportionately’ arrested, struck, shot by Toronto police, report finds

  In a report released Monday, the commission finds that Black people are more likely to be "arrested, charged, over-charged, struck, shot or killed by Toronto police.''

  Canada

  Aug 10, 2020
• Controversial anti-loitering bylaw rejected by Kenora, Ont., city council: ‘What a relief’

  Council voted against the bylaw, which would have allowed officers to ticket people for spending extended periods of time on public property, by a tally of 6-1 Tuesday.

  Politics

  Jul 22, 2020
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• London to host human rights commission inquiry into Ontario elementary school literacy

  Public readings for the 'Right to Read' inquiry are held in several cities in Ontario, including one in London on the evening of Wednesday, Jan. 29. 

  Canada

  Jan 28, 2020
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• Ottawa’s new top cop vows vigilance on racial bias, discrimination as data released

  New traffic-stop data and the results of a diversity audit show more steps are needed to ensure bias-free law enforcement in the nation's capital, Ottawa police Chief Peter Sloly says.

  Canada

  Nov 20, 2019