Peterborough Community Legal Centre

We are hiring an Administrative Assistant! Are you passionate about social justice? Do you want to contribute to improving access to justice in Peterborough City and County? Do you have a diverse set of skills that you want to utilize to improve the lives of others in your community? Please see the attached job posting or visit our website (link below) for all the details, and share with your networks! ptbo-clc.org/about/employmen…

Check out this event co-sponsored by PCLC's Your Way Forward program and One City PTBO! Registration is required. Click here for more information: ptbo-clc.org/blog/event-re-i…

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The #PeterboroughDomesticAbuseNetwork (#PDAN) is hosting a virtual workshop on April 24, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. about legal options available to obtain conditions to protect people who are experiencing #sexual (#SV) and #intimatepartnerviolence (#IPV) other than #police intervention. These include obtaining a #PeaceBond, #PrivateProsecution and/or applying to the #FamilyCourt for a #Restrainingorder. A discussion will also be had about how to support survivors charged after having reported SA or IPV to the police and how survivors of IPV and SA can pursue civil claims for damages against the perpetrators as an alternative to the criminal justice system. This is free and open to anyone to attend. The registration form can be found here: forms.gle/Ms2nH9EugbcD4H5f6 Hope to see many of you there! #YourWayForward #PCLC #SHAPE #NCLC

Unless you work in the healthcare field, you may not be aware of the amount of #sexualharassment, #discrimination and #violence our healthcare workers face, at times daily. In our latest blog, SHAPE explores this issue and guides how we could prevent and address this problem: pclcsvprojects.com/post/how-… #ShapeYourWorkplace #NCLC #LegalAidOntario

As we Celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth (February 2025), take a moment to reflect upon #ViolaDesmond - a true #Canadian #Upstander - a true #Canadian #teacher. Someone who recognized and stood-up against injustice. May we ALL carry her strength and stand up to injustice ..... #SHAPEYourWorkplace #SHIWproject #LAO #NCLC #PCLC

The #DivisionalCourt recently reviewed and overturned an arbitration decision that had reinstated five employees who had been terminated by #Metrolinx for engaging in #sexualharassment even though no one had made an official complaint. Find out why in #SHAPE's latest blog: pclcsvprojects.com/post/divi…

Thank you, #AngelicoDino of #LawTimes, for bringing this #DivisionalCourt appeal of a decision made by the #HumanRightsTribunalofOntario (#HRTO) to our attention. This decision provides an excellent example of how HRTO has dismissed applications on procedural grounds without proper consideration. As noted by #TribunalWatchOntario lnkd.in/gmgbPKZT, 93% of HRTO's decisions that they reviewed "were dismissals of claims without a hearing," which is contrary to HRTOs original purpose, which was to be accessible for unrepresented people. In this case, the claim was dismissed by HRTO because they found that most of his allegations of discrimination had occurred more than one year before his application. The Divisional Court ruled that although HRTO had cited the correct legal test for determining whether there was a "series of events," they had failed to apply these factors properly and had refused to accept additional evidence offered by the complainant despite having asked for it in the notice they sent out to him for this summary hearing, thereby denying him procedural fairness. Here is a link to the decision for those of you interested: Erazo v. Ontario (Ministry of Community and Social Services), 2024 ONSC 7181 (CanLII), <canlii.ca/t/k8h89>, retrieved on 2025-01-27 lawtimesnews.com/practice-ar…