The Ontario Human Rights Review is currently underway. You can attend one of the consultation meetings below, or send written submissions by March 1 to chair@ontariohumanrightsreview.org. Windsor – February 13, 10:00 a.m. – 1:00…
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by Fathima Cader and Sumayya Kassamali Ten years after September 11, 2001, the term “Islamophobia,” once largely obscure, has become all but inevitable when discussing contemporary politics. As Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden became household…
Khalid Aba-Alkhail, Manal AlSaigh, and Waleed Alghaithy, three physicians from Saudi Arabia, have filed a lawsuit against the University of Ottawa for over $150 million dollars. The doctors were enrolled in postgraduate medical education programs…
The Honourable Justice Binnie spoke at RightsWatch on October 21, 2011 in Calgary, Alberta.
2nd When Law and Hate Collide Pan-European Hate Crime Symposium
Courtesy of Canadian Lawyer 4Students: Featuring Dave Shellnutt of Osgoode Hall.
Given the backdrop of the G20 in Toronto, this is worth sharing: To Chief Bill Blair and the Toronto Police Service: In June, 2010 at the G20 summit Toronto saw the largest mass arrests…
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Attorney-General of Ontario, Chris Bentley, spoke at the Canadian Club of Toronto on 50 years of human rights development, and the need to protect our current system. Full text below: AGHR Speech May24
Today, the court hears Abdullah al-Kidd’s case against John Ashcroft over the Bush administration’s detention practices Abdullah al-Kidd wasn’t what I expected when I met him on February 14 in a conference room at a…
Funding orders must be exceptional, says the Supreme Court: ‘For the first time the Supreme Court has ruled that superior courts are empowered to order governments to fund public interest litigation before statutory courts and…
In a unanimous decision in October 2010, the Ontario Court of Appeal affirmed that a sexual assault complainant may wear a niqab, a Muslim facial veil, while testifying. The Muslim Canadian Congress had intervened on…
