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  1. Submission of the OHRC to the Ombudsman’s Investigation into the direction provided to police by the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services for de-escalating conflict situations

    July 2014 - People with mental health disabilities are often among the most vulnerable people in Ontario. Many face a unique set of challenges where they live, in workplaces, or in our communities. When people are in crisis they also present a unique set of challenges to police services when considering the use of force. This leads to many concerns from a human rights perspective. It is not the role of the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) to comment on individual cases – we leave it to other experts to resolve these. But it is our role to look at common themes and concerns, and offer ways to move forward.

  2. Mémoire de la CODP présenté dans le cadre de l’enquête de l’ombudsman sur les directives fournies aux services de police par le ministère de la Sécurité communautaire et des Services correctionnels pour désamorcer les situations de conflit

    Juillet 2014 - Les personnes aux prises avec des troubles mentaux font souvent partie des groupes les plus vulnérables de l’Ontario. Bon nombre d’entre elles se heurtent à des défis particuliers dans leur milieu de vie, en milieu de travail et au sein de nos collectivités. Les personnes en situation de crise occasionnent aussi des défis particuliers pour les services de police qui doivent envisager le recours à la force. Sur le plan des droits de la personne, cela est source de nombreuses préoccupations. La Commission ontarienne des droits de la personne (CODP) n’a pas pour rôle d’émettre des commentaires sur des affaires individuelles, laissant plutôt aux experts le soin de le faire. Elle a toutefois pour rôle d’examiner les questions et préoccupations qui sont couramment soulevées, et de proposer des moyens de les résoudre.

  3. Annual report 2013-2014: OHRC Today

    June 2014 - Dear Mr./Ms. Speaker: Under Section 31.6 (2) of the Ontario Human Rights Code, the Ontario Human Rights Commission is required to submit a report on the Commission’s activities for the previous fiscal period by June 30th of each year, to be tabled in the Legislature. In this regard, I am pleased to provide you with the Commission’s Annual Report of its activities from April 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014. Yours sincerely, Barbara Hall, B.A, LL.B, Ph.D (hon.) Chief Commissioner

  4. OHRC Commissioners

    From: Annual report 2013-2014: OHRC Today

    Barbara Hall, Chief Commissioner – Appointed November 2005

    Barbara Hall has more than 40 years of experience as a com­munity worker, lawyer and municipal politician. She served three terms as a Toronto city councillor from 1985 on and as Toronto’s mayor from 1994 to 1997. From 1998 to 2002 she headed the Canadian government’s National Strategy on Community Safety and Crime Prevention. She was appointed Chief Commissioner of the Province of Ontario’s Human Rights Commission in 2005.

  5. Special report: Human rights and racial profiling

    From: Annual report 2013-2014: OHRC Today

    Decision shows racial profiling as a form of everyday racism, confirms test for discrimination

    The OHRC intervened in Peel Law Association v. Pieters, where the Court of Appeal overruled a Divisional Court ruling, and held that the Divisional Court applied an overly strict test for discrimination. In its June 2013 decision, the Court of Appeal found that the HRTO was reasonable in concluding that the claimants were discriminated against because of race and colour.

  6. Special report: gender identity and gender expression

    From: Annual report 2013-2014: OHRC Today

    New policy protects human rights of trans and gender-diverse people

    The OHRC launched an im­portant new policy in Spring 2014, the Policy on preventing discrimination because of gender identity and gender expression. This policy fol­lowed the 2012 amendment to the Human Rights Code to add the grounds of gender identity and gender expres­sion. This change provides protection for one of the most vulnerable and margin­alized communities in society.

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