Disability

Hatred Under the Guise of Rationality: Disability, Eugenics, and Ward v Quebec

Disability Rights Coalition v Nova Scotia: Unnecessary Institutionalization is Discrimination, NSCA Finds

Ontario’s Sex Offender Registry Discriminates Against People with Disabilities, rules Ontario v G

S.A. v Metro Vancouver Housing Corp : “Henson Trusts” in the Context of Rent Subsidies

The Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) addressed the issue of “Henson trusts” for the first time ever this January in S.A. v Metro Vancouver Housing Corp, 2019 SCC 4 [Metro Vancouver]. A Henson trust (named after the decision in Ontario (Director of Income Maintenance, Minister of Community & Social Services) v. Henson,  1987 CarswellOnt 654, [1987] O.J. No. […]

PS v Ontario: ONCA Finds Ontario Mental Health Law Breached the Charter

The Ontario Court of Appeal's judgment in PS v Ontario, 2014 ONCA 900, has determined that a detainee in a mental health institution suffered discrimination and a denial of procedural fairness, contrary to his Charter rights under Sections 15 and 7. The case arose from the 19-year-long involuntary detention of a man, identified only as PS, at a […]