February 14th, 2022 by Emily Zarychta, Human Rights Clinic Advocate
This blog post is a follow-up to our July 13, 2020 post: No-Pet Clauses and Human Rights. Our Clinic continues to receive many questions about this issue, and there have been some developments in the […]
March 23, 2021 by Judith Grimsrud, HRC Advocate
Many Canadians are experiencing increasing levels of stress, depression, and anxiety due to the ongoing pandemic. Worries about unemployment, job security, finances, and exposure to the coronavirus, balancing family and work responsibilities, and the ill-effects of social isolation […]
Laura Track, Human Rights Lawyer July 13, 2020
This blog post has been adapted and updated from an article originally published in the Fall, 2018 edition of Landlord BC’s magazine The Key.
Landlords play an important role in protecting human rights by providing discrimination-free housing and […]
This article was originally published in Transition, the magazine of Disability Alliance BC, Winter, 2019.
June 1, 2020
One of the purposes of human rights law is to identify and eliminate persistent patterns of inequality. Yet people with disabilities still face many barriers to participation and inclusion […]
By Laura Track, Human Rights Lawyer, May 8, 2020
Part 3: Duty to Inquire
This week is Mental Health Week. To mark the occasion, we’ve published this three-part series on Mental Health and Human Rights.
In Part 1 of the series, we talked about the stigma […]
By Laura Track, Human Rights Lawyer, May 6, 2020
Part 2 – Duty to Accommodate
In Part 1 of our Mental Health and Human Rights series in honour of Mental Health Week, we talked about human rights protections for people with mental illness. The BC […]
By Abisola Omotayo
A recent decision[1] of the BC Human Rights Tribunal emphasizes the need for service providers to accommodate individuals with mental health issues. The case involved the alleged denial of service by a BC restaurant to a person with mental illnesses. The customer […]
By Laura Track
This article was originally published in the Summer 2018 issue of Landlord BC’s magazine called The Key.
With marijuana legalization on the near horizon, landlords need to be aware of their obligations under BC’s Human Rights Code. There are situations where human rights laws […]
By Laura Track
This article was originally published in Visions magazine, BC’s Mental Health and Addictions Journal.
Under Canadian human rights law, employers have an obligation to adjust workplace rules, policies and practices that have a negative impact on employees or job applicants with disabilities. In other words, employers […]
By Laura Track
This article was originally published in the Spring 2018 issue of Landlord BC’s magazine called The Key.
As landlords, you’re in the business of providing accommodations. You provide homes for all sorts of people every day – that’s your job, and you know it […]
