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Update on Genetic Discrimination

  • 21 février 2018
  • Fiona Campbell and Nicolas Woodward

The past few years have seen significant developments in the field of genetic testing, which has led to exciting possibilities for identifying, understanding, preventing, and treating illnesses. At the same time, advances in the understanding of genetics can also result in the discriminatory treatment of individuals.

Droit constitutionnel, libertés civiles et droits de la personne

The Northern Regional Health Appeal – An Opportunity to Clarify the “Essential Character” Test of Disputes involving Human Rights in Unionized Workplaces

  • 21 février 2018
  • Sandra Gaballa

The Northern Regional Health Authority has applied for leave to appeal the decision of the Manitoba Court of Appeal in Northern Regional Health Authority v. Manitoba Human Rights Commission et. al., 2017 MBCA 98 to the Supreme Court of Canada . The Manitoba Human Rights Commission is not opposing the application, instead favouring that the appeal be heard and clarification be sought in the matter of the jurisdiction of human rights tribunals vis-à-vis exclusive arbitral jurisdiction.

Droit constitutionnel, libertés civiles et droits de la personne

One Step Forward, Two Steps Backwards: How the Indian Act may restrict various marginalized groups from accessing justice

  • 17 janvier 2018
  • Tavlin Kaur

A recent case heard by the Supreme Court of Canada, Canadian Human Rights Commission v. Attorney General of Canada, may have significant implications for individuals who rely on federal government benefits. The case involves a challenge to the registration provision of the federal Indian Act.

Droit constitutionnel, libertés civiles et droits de la personne

16th Annual Charter Conference

  • 17 janvier 2018

The 16th Annual Charter of Rights and Freedoms Conference took place on October 2, 2017 at the OBA’s offices in Toronto. This article summarizes the Conference’s four panels, as well as the Year in Review presentation.

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Childcare, Summer Jobs, and Religious Discrimination in Canada*

  • 17 janvier 2018
  • Derek Ross

Disqualifying otherwise eligible recipients from a public benefit because of their religious beliefs is unacceptable in a liberal democracy. Yet that is the effect of two recent government initiatives in Canada.

Droit constitutionnel, libertés civiles et droits de la personne

Gehl v Canada: Circumscribing the Role of Charter Values?

  • 16 novembre 2017
  • John Wilson and Guy Régimbald

In Gehl v Canada (2017), the concurring reasons of Justices Lauwers and Miller include a sustained criticism of the concept and application of Charter values in judicial reasoning. We reply to the concurring judgment’s critique of Charter values.

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Naming Appropriate Respondents in Human Rights Applications

  • 15 novembre 2017
  • Wade Poziomka

Over the past few years, a troubling trend has emerged in the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario’s case law relating to the naming and removal of individual respondents. In an effort to counter the inappropriate naming of individual respondents, the Tribunal's jurisprudence now encroaches into the territory of appropriately named individual respondents.

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