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1. OHRC statement: Demographic data necessary to fight COVID-19

   The OHRC encourages the government to once again heed the advice of health and human rights experts who agree that Ontario needs demographic data to effectively fight COVID-19.

2. OHRC submission regarding Ontario’s next Poverty Reduction Strategy

   I am writing today on behalf of the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) about the government’s consultation on Ontario’s next Poverty Reduction Strategy (Strategy). The OHRC calls on Ontario to take a human rights-based approach to poverty reduction by entrenching the types of economic and social responses to COVID-19 into permanent solutions that will once and for all protect the well-being of everyone in our province.

3. People, power, progress: Annual Report 2019–2020

   People, power, progress, the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s (OHRC) 2019 – 2020 Annual Report, provides qualitative and quantitative information that tracks our progress in meeting the commitments set out in our 2017–22 Strategic Plan, Putting people and their rights at the centre.

4. Les gens, le pouvoir, le progrès Rapport annuel 2019-2020 de la Commission ontarienne des droits de la personne

   Intitulé Les gens, le pouvoir, le progrès, le Rapport annuel 2019-2020 de la Commission ontarienne des droits de la personne (CODP) fournit des renseignements qualitatifs et quantitatifs sur les progrès effectués en vue d’atteindre les objectifs fixés dans notre Plan stratégique 2017-2022, Placer les personnes et leurs droits au centre de nos préoccupations.

5. Business Plan 2020–21 – 2022–23

   The OHRC is an arm’s-length agency of the Ontario government established under the Ontario’s Human Rights Code (Code). The OHRC’s function is to promote, protect and advance respect for human rights in Ontario, as well as to identify and promote the elimination of discriminatory practices.

6. A Disparate Impact: Second interim report on the inquiry into racial profiling and racial discrimination of Black persons by the Toronto Police Service

   A Disparate Impact, the second interim report in the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s inquiry into racial profiling and racial discrimination of Black persons by the Toronto Police Service (TPS), confirms that Black people are more likely than others to be arrested, charged, over-charged, struck, shot or killed by Toronto police.

7. Every municipality is different

   From: In the zone: Housing, human rights and municipal planning

   Municipalities in Ontario come in all shapes and sizes. Each has different issues, different neighbourhoods and different community needs. And each has a different capacity to respond to these needs. This guide offers a variety of steps municipalities can tailor to meet their unique circumstances, while also meeting their human rights responsibilities.

   About the Human Rights Code

   The Ontario Human Rights Code offers protection from discrimination in five social areas:

8. Appendix C – Glossary

   From: In the zone: Housing, human rights and municipal planning

    

   Affordable housing: Under the Investment in Affordable Housing program, the federal/provincial governments define affordable housing as new rental housing that is rented at no more than 80% of the local average market rent as determined by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

   Arterial road: Major traffic and transit route, intended to carry large volumes of traffic.

   As of right use: Land uses that are automatically allowed by laws such as a municipality’s zoning bylaw.

9. Policy on competing human rights

   April 2012 - The main goal of this policy is to provide clear, user-friendly guidance to organizations, policy makers, litigants, adjudicators and others on how to assess, handle and resolve competing rights claims. The policy will help various sectors, organizations and individuals deal with everyday situations of competing rights, and avoid the time and expense of bringing a legal challenge before a court or human rights decision-maker. It sets out a process, based in existing case law, to analyze and reconcile competing rights. This process is flexible and can apply to any competing rights claim under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, provincial or federal human rights legislation or another legislative scheme.

10. 1. Introduction

    From: Policy on competing human rights

    “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.”^[5]

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