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1. COVID-19 and Ontario’s Human Rights Code – Questions and Answers

    

   Last updated October 20, 2022

   The OHRC has developed a series of questions and answers for understanding your human rights and obligations during the COVID-19 pandemic. These questions and answers cover the rights and responsibilities of employers and employees, tenants and landlords, as well as residential institutions.

   Disclaimer: The answers to the questions posed do not constitute legal advice. The OHRC continues to monitor the evolving situation and will update or add to these questions and answers on an ongoing basis as needed.

    

2. OHRC and corrections workers call for dedicated funding to address crisis in Ontario corrections

   In an unprecedented joint submission the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) and OPSEU Corrections Management-Employee Relations Committee (MERC), which represents front line correctional staff, are calling on the Ontario government to dedicate funds in the 2020 Budget to address the crisis in Ontario’s correctional system.

3. La CODP et les travailleurs correctionnels réclament des fonds spéciaux pour résoudre la crise du système correctionnel en Ontario

   In an unprecedented joint submission [link to submission] the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) and OPSEU Corrections Management-Employee Relations Committee (MERC), which represents front line correctional staff, are calling on the Ontario government to dedicate funds in the 2020 Budget to address the crisis in Ontario’s correctional system.

4. Joint submission to Ontario’s consultation on the 2020 budget: Necessary investments in Ontario’s correctional system

    

   Introduction

   This joint submission identifies concrete investments that should be earmarked in Ontario’s 2020 budget to protect the health and safety of vulnerable and marginalized Ontarians incarcerated in provincial institutions and the brave men and women working inside them.

5. Mémoire conjoint au titre de la consultation sur le budget 2020 de l’Ontario: investissements à prévoir au sein du système correctionnel de l’Ontario

   Le présent mémoire conjoint détermine les investissements concrets à inscrire au budget de l’Ontario de 2020 afin de préserver la santé et la sécurité des Ontariens et Ontariennes vulnérables et marginalisés qui sont incarcérés dans les établissements provinciaux et du personnel qui y travaille.

6. Business Plan 2019/20 – 2021/22

   The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) is an arm’s-length agency of the government of Ontario established under the Ontario’s Human Rights Code. A nearly 70 year old institution, the OHRC is now one of three pillars of Ontario’s human rights system, alongside the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) and the Human Rights Legal Support Centre (HRLSC). The OHRC’s function is to protect, promote and advance respect for human rights in Ontario, as well as identify and promote the elimination of discriminatory practices, all in the public interest. The OHRC works in many ways to fulfill this mandate, including through education, policy development, public inquiries and litigation.

7. Letter to Associate Minister Dunlop on the Child Welfare System Consultation

   I am writing on behalf of the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) with regard to the government’s public consultation into Ontario’s child welfare system.

8. Lettre à la ministre associée Dunlop à propos de la consultation sur le système de bien-être de l’enfance

   Je vous écris au nom de la Commission ontarienne des droits de la personne (CODP) à propos de la consultation publique sur le système de bien-être de l’enfance de l’Ontario qu’a entreprise le gouvernement. 

9. Ontario Human Rights Commission Submission to the Toronto Police Services Board re: Draft Policy on Race-Based Data Collection, Analysis and Public Reporting

   The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) welcomes the opportunity to provide a submission to the Toronto Police Services Board (TPSB) on its Draft Policy on Race-Based Data Collection, Analysis and Public Reporting (Draft Policy).

10. Mémoire à l’intention de la Commission de services policiers de Toronto concernant son ébauche de Politique sur la collecte, l’analyse et la rédaction de rapports publics sur les données relatives à la race

    La Commission ontarienne des droits de la personne (CODP) est heureuse de pouvoir présenter un mémoire à la Commission de services policiers de Toronto concernant son ébauche de Politique sur la collecte, l’analyse et la rédaction de rapports publics sur les données relatives à la race (traduction libre – Draft Policy on Race-Based Data Collection, Analysis and Public Reporting) (l’Ébauche de politique).

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