Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) made 27 recommendations for the development of the Strategy for a Safer Ontario, a new blueprint for policing. LAO’s submission to the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services is based on its own understanding of the legal needs of vulnerable client groups. The submission focuses on: education and training programs […]

In 2014, Ayaan Farah lost her job because the RCMP alleged she had a connection to the Dixon Crew, an Etobicoke street gang. Transport Canada revoked her security clearance at her job of eight years at Pearson International Airport because of these allegations—and, as a result, lost her job. On August 15, 2016, a Federal […]

The following post was originally published on rabble.ca on July 25, 2016 by Vince Wong, a staff lawyer with the Metro Toronto Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic. Two weeks ago, Regent Park bore witness to possibly the most candid public discussion on racism with high level decision-makers in Ontario’s history.

In 2014, Jermaine Carby, a 33-year-old Black Canadian, was a passenger in a car that was pulled over by police during a routine traffic stop in Brampton. He was shot and killed after police said he refused to drop a knife he was holding. In the inquest that followed in 2016, a coroner’s jury determined […]