In October 2019, the Ontario Human Rights Commission (the “OHRC”) initiated a public inquiry into human rights issues impacting students with reading disabilities in Ontario’s English public education system. The inquiry is…
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised many new privacy and confidentiality matters for employers, employees and consumers. Federal and provincial privacy law reform efforts, however, appear to be at a standstill. This is…
Since 2019, PooranLaw has been providing free legal services to low-income residents of Windsor-Essex living with an intellectual disability. Thanks to the support of People First of Ontario, we were able to expand…
On October 6, 2021, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal (the “Court”) released its decision in Disability Rights Coalition v. Nova Scotia (Attorney General). The Court made a number of important, positive…
Yesterday, Ontario announced it will be requiring health care providers, as well as congregate care and day program providers in the developmental services to adopt vaccination policies with certain minimum standards. While…
An important decision by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) on the issue of accommodation and essential visitation for residents of congregate care settings was released on March 23, 2021. In…
In the case of Longueépée v University of Waterloo, 2020 ONCA 830, a student with disabilities, Mr. Longueépée, was refused admission to the University of Waterloo’s (the “University”) Faculty of Arts in…
Late Wednesday, the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services (MCCSS) released new communications to MCCSS-funded organizations in response to escalating levels of community risk related to Covid-19. These communications outlined new…
As the international COVID-19 Pandemic becomes a reality in Canada, employers in the disability and developmental services (DS) sectors face unprecedented challenges. In this blog post, we’ve highlighted a number of the…
Use of Exclusions, Seclusions and Physical Restraints in Schools Commonly referred to as an “exclusion”, the Education Act makes it the duty of each principal in a public school to exclude any…
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