Aligning Community and Academic Agendas: Housing and Homelessness - 2012-13 CLJ
Tracy Heffernan, a program director at the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario, will spend her year-long fellowship at Osgoode Hall Law School where she will explore the potential to reduce homelessness using the Charter and other legal tools.
$ 50,000
June 28, 2012
Indeterminate Punishment: The Disclosure of Non-Conviction Information on Criminal Record Checks in Ontario - November 2012
The John Howard Society of Ontario will deliver a symposium to examine the issues around the disclosure of non-conviction information on criminal record checks.
$ 6,900
June 28, 2012
The Holocaust and Holocaust Denials
Assumption University will produce a seminar aimed at high school, college and university students as well as evening public presentations on the subject of the Holocaust and Holocaust deniers.
$ 15,000
June 28, 2012
Knowing Nuclear Waste - Understanding the Legal Framework for Waste Siting Decisions
Northwatch will provide communities that are being studied as possible locations for a geological repository for nuclear waste with an understanding of the legal framework within which siting decisions must be made, including issues of municipal jurisdiction, the regulation of nuclear facilities, and regulatory assessment of the safety case for geological repositories.
$ 15,000
June 28, 2012
Street Smarts Program
The Toronto Cyclists Union will operate the Street Smarts Program to facilitate legal education and expand public knowledge of the rules of road safety for pedestrians, motorists and cyclists. The program will involve on-street outreach and workshops to deliver the information.
$ 11,920
June 28, 2012
A Co-ordinated Strategy for PLEI for Non Profits
The People’s Law School (Vancouver, BC), along with other BC Public Legal Education (PLE) organizations, will provide PLE on non-profit legal issues to the non-profit sector. In particular, it will focus on providing legal information regarding the 2012 changes to the BC Society Act, which is the legal framework governing non-profits in BC.
$ 135,500
June 28, 2012
Self-Help Computer - Legal Information
St. Paul’s Anglican Church (Vancouver, BC) will provide a legal advocacy and information program for homeless and low income individuals with a dedicated computer and an advocacy office director.
$ 44,000
May 24, 2012
Jane Doe Legal Network
Pivot Legal Society (Vancouver, BC) will provide individual legal advice to survivors of domestic violence and a series of workshops on issues pertaining to domestic violence for providers and survivors.
$ 104,000
May 24, 2012
Connecting Communities Tenant's School
The Federation of Metro Tenants Associations(Toronto, ON) will hold a series of trainings aimed at providing settlement workers with an in-depth education on tenants’ rights. This project is an outgrowth of the Connecting Communities Consortium.
$ 100,200
May 24, 2012
You're Right! It's the Law!
Justice for Children and Youth (Thunder Bay, ON) will educate youth workers through providing workshops on the Youth Criminal Justice Act and youth records, education law (suspensions, expulsions) and human rights. Many of the youth workers who will be trained work with aboriginal youth. This project is an outgrowth of the Connecting Communities Consortium.
$ 45,152
May 24, 2012
