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Niagara North Community Legal Assistance Summer 2011 newsletter now available
Posted August 3, 2011 - Topics include Ontario Project for Interclinic Community Organizing forum, Social Assistance Review, and Special Diet information.
Article source Niagara North Community Legal Assistance
Ontario court declares HIV-positive man a dangerous offender
Posted August 3, 2011 - A man convicted of murder through HIV transmission could spend the rest of his life in jail after an Ontario court ruled that he can't be trusted to disclose his condition to future sex partners.
Article source The Globe and Mail
Waterloo woman didn't have enough documents to get new Ontario ID card
Posted August 3, 2011 - A Waterloo woman presented her Ontario health card, her birth certificate, and her old-age security card which contained her social insurance number, but they weren't enough to get a new Ontario ID card.
Article source The Record.com
A bumpy start for a new style of family court
Posted August 2, 2011 - It was heralded as an innovative first for the Canadian justice system -- a pilot project in Ontario merging family court and criminal domestic violence cases with a one-judge, one-courtroom approach. But at its launch in June, the Integrated Domestic Violence Court heard only one case, then was promptly forced to cancel its next two sessions for lack of cases.
Article source The Globe and Mail
Family litigants without lawyers: Study documents growing challenges for the justice system
Posted August 2, 2011 - There is growing concern about litigants without lawyers, especially for family cases. The authors of this article report on preliminary findings from a recent survey of the perceptions of Ontario family lawyers, the first study of its kind in Canada.
Article source The Lawyers Weekly
Ontario Liberals announce highest rent increase rate in years
Posted August 2, 2011 - Ontario's governing Liberals say if they are re-elected this fall they will change the way the province's rent increase rate is set after it took one of the biggest jumps in years Friday. Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Rick Bartolucci made the promise after announcing the rate by which landlords would be able to increase tenants' rents in 2012 would be 3.1 per cent.
Article source Toronto Star
Teen deaths shame us all
Posted August 2, 2011 - This Toronto Star editorial looks at the the aftermath of the death of a young man with mental illness who took his own life while in custody. It says that most of the safeguards and remedies advocated in the coroner's report following his death have been proposed -- but ignored -- many times.
Article source Toronto Star
A Response to the Commissioners for the Review of Social Assistance
Posted July 29, 2011 - This paper lays out the Income Security Advocacy Centre's analysis of the Social Assistance Review Commission’s Discussion Paper and their vision for a new approach to OW and ODSP.
Article source Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC)
August 4: Canada Learning Bond sign-up
August 4, 2011 - This is an opportunity for people to sign up for a Social Insurance Number and a free Canada Learning Bond, which goes into a child's Registered Education Savings Plan even if parents don't have money to contribute themselves. The government also adds money to whatever parents can save.
OHRC creates eLearning course, 'Welcome to Human Rights 101'
Posted July 28, 2011 - The Ontario Human Rights Commission has created "Welcome to Human Rights 101," an online course covering human rights and discrimination, rights and responsibilities under the Ontario Human Rights Code, and how to apply the Ontario Human Rights Code.
Article source Ontario Human Rights Commission
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