Education experts spar over affirmative action at University of Manitoba
Sub-Category: Affirmative Action Programs
Date: February 16, 2016
Source: cbc.ca
Summary: A professor at the University of Manitoba is worried that the new affirmative action program will not be effective. The new policy says that 45% of the students hired as teachers must be from diverse categories. The professor believes children deserve the best education they can get, regardless of the teachers ethnicity, disability, or any other factor.
Sub-Category: Affirmative Action Programs
Date: February 16, 2016
Source: cbc.ca
Summary: A professor at the University of Manitoba is worried that the new affirmative action program will not be effective. The new policy says that 45% of the students hired as teachers must be from diverse categories. The professor believes children deserve the best education they can get, regardless of the teachers ethnicity, disability, or any other factor.
New Ontario bill aims to change legal rights of new LGBT parents
Sub-Category: Legal Rights
Date: December 14, 2015
Source: cbc.ca
Summary: Right now, in Ontario, if LGBTQ parents have a child through a sperm donor, they have no legal rights to their child for months because they have to adopt them. This new bill is meant to allow these parents to have legal rights to their child right from birth, without spending thousands of dollars on adoption. Many people have witnessed their friends go through an emotional roller coaster and have decided that they don't want to go through that themselves.
Sub-Category: Legal Rights
Date: December 14, 2015
Source: cbc.ca
Summary: Right now, in Ontario, if LGBTQ parents have a child through a sperm donor, they have no legal rights to their child for months because they have to adopt them. This new bill is meant to allow these parents to have legal rights to their child right from birth, without spending thousands of dollars on adoption. Many people have witnessed their friends go through an emotional roller coaster and have decided that they don't want to go through that themselves.
.Gender quotas: Who else has them and does Canada need them?
Sub-Category: Equality Rights
Date: October 28, 2016
Source: globalnews.ca
Summary: Federal liberals want more women in Canadian boardrooms. A bill that was introduced last month will require publicly traded companies to disclose the gender makeup of their corporate boards and senior management. This will be a concept that the Canadian government has ever seen before but it is already being used for different governments around the globe.
Sub-Category: Equality Rights
Date: October 28, 2016
Source: globalnews.ca
Summary: Federal liberals want more women in Canadian boardrooms. A bill that was introduced last month will require publicly traded companies to disclose the gender makeup of their corporate boards and senior management. This will be a concept that the Canadian government has ever seen before but it is already being used for different governments around the globe.
Mohawks’ right to freely cross Canada-U.S. border trumped by national security: judge
Sub-Category: Mobility Rights
Date: October 28, 2015
Source: news.nationalpost.com
Summary: Mohawks cannot freely travel their territory and are inconvenienced by having to go through the port of entry. People have been publicly complaining about this incovenience, including a women who's Iroquois passport was not accepted. Although this violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, a judge has ruled that this inconvenience is minimal and doesn’t have to be changed.
Sub-Category: Mobility Rights
Date: October 28, 2015
Source: news.nationalpost.com
Summary: Mohawks cannot freely travel their territory and are inconvenienced by having to go through the port of entry. People have been publicly complaining about this incovenience, including a women who's Iroquois passport was not accepted. Although this violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, a judge has ruled that this inconvenience is minimal and doesn’t have to be changed.
CIBC sued by former staffer alleging sexual assault, harassment
Sub-Category: Sexual Harassment
Date: May 18, 2016
Source: globalnews.ca
Summary: A former worker for CIBC, Diane Vivares, filed a lawsuit against the bank because she was sexually assaulted and harassed by a former executive director. Vivares claimed that the bank failed to protect her from sexual harassment and she was working in a poisoned environment. Contradicting this, the bank said that she never reported the incidents. The company even made it possible for her to address this issue while remaining annonymous, by going through a hotline.
Sub-Category: Sexual Harassment
Date: May 18, 2016
Source: globalnews.ca
Summary: A former worker for CIBC, Diane Vivares, filed a lawsuit against the bank because she was sexually assaulted and harassed by a former executive director. Vivares claimed that the bank failed to protect her from sexual harassment and she was working in a poisoned environment. Contradicting this, the bank said that she never reported the incidents. The company even made it possible for her to address this issue while remaining annonymous, by going through a hotline.