By Michael Murphy and Melissa Pike The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted workplaces in many ways, including with regards to how employers manage employee absences due to illness. This issue is especially pressing this time of year, given…
By Ronald Pizzo and Dr. Dayna Lee-Bagley Humans have a biological need for connection. We are social beings. Our nature is to interact and form relationships with others. We are also wired to survive. We are always…
Vince Calderhead and counsel at Manitoba’s Public Interest Law Centre made submissions on behalf of the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg. Stadler v Director, St Boniface/St Vital 2020 MBCA 46 The Manitoba Court of Appeal found the…
“Previously published by The Lawyer’s Daily, a division of LexisNexis Canada”. A panel on transgender people and prisons took place during Halifax Pride, intended to help lawyers better serve trans clients remanded or sentenced to provincial custody…
In this opinion piece published in the Chronicle Herald Vince Calderhead says that the holidays are a good time to check in, to look more closely, beyond the seasonal good tidings, and ask how the poor are really…
Partial Legalization – What is legal? possession up to 30 grams of legal cannabis, dried or equivalent in non-dried form in public share up to 30 grams of legal cannabis with other adults buy dried or fresh…
By Dan Wilband On September 24, 2018, at the outset of Canada’s Gender Equality Week, the Association of Ontario Midwives obtained a historic win from the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. This decision is an important victory…
By Dan Wilband Last month, The Coast published a piece exploring the widespread use of criminal record checks in hiring practices, both in Nova Scotia and elsewhere. It documents the challenges faced by individuals with criminal convictions in their…
By Gail L. Gatchalian, Q.C. On Wednesday, June 13, 2018, I was invited to make a presentation to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights to comment on Bill C-65, An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (harassment…
A human rights hearing regarding the Province’s provision of community-based supports and services for people with disabilities resumed this week. Vince Calderhead of Pink Larkin…
