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		<title>Changes to Social Assistance Don&#8217;t Add Up</title>
		<link>http://www.equalityrights.org/cera/?p=1357</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Akler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Community Start Up and Maintenance Benefit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Income Supports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ontario Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ontario Disability Support Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ontario Works]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 2012 Ontario budget will not be kind to people on social assistance. While much of the focus has been on the Liberals’ decision to freeze rates on Ontario Works (OW) and Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), another item on the budget is equally cruel: the Community Start-Up and Maintenance Benefit (CSUMB) will be cut. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What can we do about housing discrimination?</title>
		<link>http://www.equalityrights.org/cera/?p=1323</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CERA Activities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legal Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Your Rights as a Tenant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Legal advocacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newcomers to Canada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few months, CERA, the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario and COSTI Immigrant Services have been holding housing rights workshops for front line workers that provide housing assistance for recent immigrants and refugees. We provided a session in Ottawa in October, Toronto in November and London in December. We’ll be holding our fourth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roomers&#8217; (Non)Rights</title>
		<link>http://www.equalityrights.org/cera/?p=1318</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Your Rights as a Tenant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[law reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legislation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Brunswick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roomers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you rent a room in someone’s home and share the kitchen or bathroom with the owner or the owner’s family, you aren’t protected under the Human Rights Code (you aren’t protected under the Residential Tenancies Act either, but that’s a discussion for another blog). It’s a very precarious type of housing. This exception under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The State of Human Rights Enforcement in Ontario</title>
		<link>http://www.equalityrights.org/cera/?p=1282</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human rights casework]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario recently released its 2009-2010 annual report and, not surprisingly, it contains both good and bad news. Let’s start with the good news. People are using the human rights system. In 2009-2010 3,551 applications were filed with the Tribunal. Three years ago, the corresponding number was just over 2,300. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting 2 and 2 Together:  Access to Justice and Articling</title>
		<link>http://www.equalityrights.org/cera/?p=1273</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leilani Farha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advocate Supports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legal Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[access to justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[articling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LSUC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[support]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unmet need]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By David Wiseman, Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa The staff of CERA, and CERA’s many allies and friends (including me), have often lamented the inability to provide more help to more people who are claiming or defending their equality and housing rights in the rental housing market in Ontario.  There is a significant ‘unmet need’ for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helping Hoarders</title>
		<link>http://www.equalityrights.org/cera/?p=1262</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CERA Activities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legal Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Duty to Accommodate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eviction Prevention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hoarding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here at the Eviction Prevention desk we know the hardest cases involve hoarders.  But we didn’t know just how hard they can be.  Two recent cases have shown us the limits of our small organization when it comes to helping combat a very large problem. In both instances, the clients were long-term tenants of subsidized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stereotyping can go both ways</title>
		<link>http://www.equalityrights.org/cera/?p=1255</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CERA Activities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legal Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equality rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family status]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public legal education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rental advertisements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Assistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toronto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[youth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At CERA, we often see landlords at their worst. Those brought to our attention are typically not landlords that are doing a great job, but those that are potentially violating the Human Rights Code. When we speak to them it is usually because they have (allegedly) discriminated against one of our clients. After 25 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trying to find environmentally safe housing</title>
		<link>http://www.equalityrights.org/cera/?p=1221</link>
		<comments>http://www.equalityrights.org/cera/?p=1221#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Duty to Accommodate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Sensitivities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthy Housing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These are the experiences of one of our clients, Jane, who lives with environmental sensitivities and has been struggling to find safe housing. If you are one of the few Ontarians that doesn’t have Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS) or doesn’t have a relative, a friend, a co-worker, who has MCS then please read on. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talking About Money</title>
		<link>http://www.equalityrights.org/cera/?p=1199</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leilani Farha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CERA Activities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada Without Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Talking About Money Someone recently said to me, “talking about money is harder than talking about death”. CERA, in partnership with Canada Without Poverty (CWP), recently received a grant from TD’s Financial Literacy Program to do what a lot of folks have told us would be impossible: to talk about the taboo, uncomfortable subject of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tenants Facing Eviction for Children’s Noise have Rights under Ontario’s Human Rights Code</title>
		<link>http://www.equalityrights.org/cera/?p=1192</link>
		<comments>http://www.equalityrights.org/cera/?p=1192#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 17:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theresa Thornton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eviction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine you are in the common hallway of your apartment building with your 2 year old daughter. She is laughing, talking and running towards the elevator. You notice there are people coming towards her and she may be in their way, so you take her hand and guide her away from the centre of the [...]]]></description>
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