by Trish Robichaud | Mar 23, 2012 | AODA Standards, Employment, Human Rights Cases, Media Coverage
OTTAWA — Ottawa taxpayers are on the hook for what should be a six-figure settlement after a tribunal found that the city’s fire department unreasonably failed to accommodate a former employee hurt in a workplace accident in 2003. In a recent decision, the Human...
by Trish Robichaud | Mar 8, 2012 | All, Attitudinal Barriers, Customer Service, Human Rights Cases, Media Coverage, Physical Barriers, Physical Disabilities, Systemic Barriers
By Wendy Gillis, Staff Reporter, TheStar.com Toronto police have settled a human rights claim filed by a paraplegic man arrested during the G20 summit, but the terms will not be made public due to a confidentiality clause. Gabriel Jacobs, a panhandler paralyzed from...
by Trish Robichaud | Jan 30, 2012 | All, Human Rights Cases, Media Coverage, Mental Health Disabilities
By Paola Loriggio, The Canadian Press Ontario’s human rights tribunal will weigh a challenge to Toronto’s zoning rules that experts say could affect how municipalities across the country integrate housing for people with mental illness or disabilities. City...
by Trish Robichaud | Jan 24, 2012 | Accommodations, Employment, Human Rights Cases, Media Coverage
Noble motives may elicit a heavenly reward. But they never spare employers from the wrath of human rights commissions. When Holly Graham, a mobile patrol security officer with Ottawa-based Response Security & Investigations, unexpectedly became pregnant, she...
by Trish Robichaud | Jan 22, 2012 | All, Attitudinal Barriers, Human Rights Cases, Mental Health Disabilities
By Sarah Simpson, Citizen Betty James is hoping she’s nearing the end of a years-long battle with a local mobile home park whose aim it was, she claims, to deny her disabled son a place to live. It all started back in May of 2009. James’s son Brian, then...
by Trish Robichaud | Nov 26, 2011 | All, Business Case for Accessibility, Human Rights Cases, Media Coverage
Ontario’s human rights tribunal has found the city discriminated against an employee it fired rather than accommodate her disability. According to a recent decision by adjudicator David Muir, Cornwall managers also violated procedures that should have protected...
