Black History Month Celebrations at City of Toronto

February 22, 2017 admin
Off
Advocacy, Media, Politics
The City of Toronto hosted  a Black History Month Reception at City Hall on Feb. 22, 2017.
The event was also used to unveil an exhibition of artifacts found at the site of the new courthouse in Toronto, which highlight the abolitionist movement and aspects of the Black community in Toronto.

Advocacy
Advocacy

2020 Ferris State University Distinguished Alumni Award

Your Legal Rights in the Age of COVID-19

Fire Away – The Employment Law Show | Bill 47 & Doctors’ Notes

RSS Slaw

  • Summaries Sunday: SOQUIJ April 14, 2024
    Every week we present the summary of a decision handed down by a Québec court provided to us by SOQUIJ and considered to be of interest to our readers throughout Canada. SOQUIJ is attached to the Québec Department of Justice and collects, analyzes, enriches, and disseminates legal information in Québec. PÉNAL (DROIT) : Dans le […]
  • Blaming Victim of Sexual Harassment Not a Good Defence April 11, 2024
    Written by Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD, Content Editor, First Reference Inc. In January 2024, a British Columbia labour arbitrator had no hesitation concluding that an employee, who was the grievor accusing a female colleague of sexual harassment in this case, was actually the one who was sexually harassing the female colleague. Simply put, […]
  • Democratizing Justice, Whose Problem Is It? April 11, 2024
    Democratization means making something, usually a public good, accessible to everyone. The democratization of technology related to the internet or the democratization of health care are examples. As digital technologies become more widely adopted in areas touching peoples’ daily lives such as making appointments, applications for employment, being informed about changes in conditions of services […]
  • What if Access to Justice Was Never Going to Lead to Poverty Alleviation? April 10, 2024
    I recently read that when legal aid was first developed in the United States in the 1960s, its primary goal was alleviation of poverty rather than access to counsel. However, over time, some stakeholders, mostly on the conservative side of the political spectrum, expressed concern that this was an inappropriate goal for public policy. This […]
  • The Court of Owls… and Other Things That Mean Different Things to Different People April 9, 2024
    Note: In this article, the term “culture” is used broadly and is intended to mean anything and everything related to one’s customs, beliefs, behaviours and habits attributable to the make-up of who they are. It embraces the concept introduced to the writer by legendary professor Michelle LeBaron which appreciates that each individual person subscribes to […]