The complaints, hearings, decisions and penalties of Canada's human rights commissions and tribunals.
Every federal and provincial human rights commission and tribunal in Canada publishes its decisions. We pull the files, read the whole record, and tell you in plain language what was decided and what it cost the person on the other side.
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Quebec
The tribunal agreed the ad discriminated by race and age on its face. It then went through the complainant’s tax slips, student aid file and Facebook posts and...
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Quebec
Néolégal dropped Antoine Absi within 10 minutes of learning about the charges. He later pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography and to luring. The tribunal still ruled the...
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Quebec
Station10 Salon told Alexe Frédéric Migneault to click any button and promised a haircut “without judgment or discrimination.” The tribunal ruled that wasn’t good enough
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Nova Scotia
A Canadian Tire security guard's "temporary physical detention" of a customer was an act of race discrimination, a Nova Scotia human rights board has ruled.
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Federal
A federal labour board ruling has established that the Canada Revenue Agency discriminated against Christopher Martin on the basis of religion when it denied him accommodation and placed...
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New Brunswick
One flyer defended parental notification and consent under the province's former Policy 713, which governed the use of preferred names and pronouns in schools, while the other criticized...
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Each commission and tribunal publishes its decisions and hearing lists. We check them every day, federal and provincial, and open every new file.
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