News & Events
Judicial review needed before psychiatric patient advocates transferred to CMHA
Posted July 21, 2011 - In a news release, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union says there must be a judicial review before the Ontario government moves ahead with its plan to have the Canadian Mental Health Association take over operation of the independent Psychiatric Patients Advocacy Office.
Article source Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU)
New project helps claimants navigate new refugee system
Posted July 21, 2011 - The Access to Justice Fund of the Law Foundation of Ontario has given a grant to the University of Ottawa and the Refugee Forum for a project aimed at helping prepare refugee claimants for a disclosure interview they must attend within 15 days of making their claim.
Article source Maytree Foundation
Not all children are created equal
Posted July 20, 2011 - In an opinion piece in the Hamilton Spectator, Advocacy Hamilton challenges government claims on the Ontario Child Benefit.
Article source Hamilton Spectator
The national shame of aboriginal incarceration
Posted July 20, 2011 - Shawn Atleo, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, says first nations children are more likely to go to jail than to graduate from high school. A Globe and Mail columnist looks at how these incarceration numbers will increase with the Harper government's proposed crime bill.
Article source The Globe and Mail
Women's topless court victory 20 years later
Posted July 20, 2011 - When university student Gwen Jacob removed her top to cool off on a sweltering summer day in July 1991, she unwittingly spearheaded a movement to give all women in Ontario the legal right to expose their breasts -- though most still choose not to.
Article source Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Are too many seeking refugee status branded terrorists?
Posted July 19, 2011 - Public safety, rather than a humanitarian ethos, now guides the way the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act is enforced. That, coupled with the fact the minister has sole discretion to grant the exemptions, has politicized the process, essentially victimizing the people the laws were intended to protect, say refugee advocates.
Article source National Post
Did you know that in 1965, atheists could be denied Canadian citizenship?
Posted July 19, 2011 - The Torontoist tells the story of a family of Dutch immigrants who were repeatedly denied Canadian citizenship because of their atheism, and the national debate that followed.
Article source torontoist.com
Letter: No conflict of interest
Posted July 19, 2011 - Steve Lurie, Executive Director of the CMHA Toronto Branch, has responded in a letter to the editor to Carol Goar's Toronto Star column, "Ontario takes a backward step on mental health."
Article source Toronto Star
Peel Region campaign highlights lack of health and social services funding
Posted July 19, 2011 - Peel Region has launched a community engagement campaign to draw attention to a lack of adequate provincial funding for local health and social services.
Article source mississauga.com
The business case for funding legal aid
Posted July 19, 2011 - The author of a Globe and Mail column says that people who can't afford lawyers for their criminal, family, landlord-tenant, or other legal matters end up representing themselves and tying up the resources of the courts, especially the time of our judges and crown prosecutors, delaying everyone else's day in court.
Article source The Globe and Mail
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