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  • Discrimination / Case Study

Sexual harassment by landlord

You rent a one-bedroom apartment near the university where you are taking classes. Your landlord offers you gifts like flowers and candy. He makes excuses to come to your apartment, sometimes early in the morning…

January 4, 2024
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  • Discrimination / Case Study

Service dog accommodation for renters

You and your teenage daughter live in an apartment building that doesn’t allow pets. Your daughter has depression and anxiety. This means she often has trouble focusing, memory lapses, brain fog, difficulty planning, panic attacks…
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  • Discrimination / Case Study

Landlord refusal to rent

You and your partner are Indigenous and are looking for a rental home. You talk to a landlord who has a laneway house to rent and arrange to see the house. When you and your…
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Detention

Human Right Commissioner launches inquiry to shed light on exclusion zones and press freedom

Inquiry to review restrictions on media during April 2023 Downtown Eastside decampment Vancouver, B.C. – B.C.’s Human Rights Commissioner has launched an inquiry into the exclusion or restriction of the media from an April 2023 decampment in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES). While there were multiple reports of journalists being denied…

December 12, 2023
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Discrimination

Advisory: Free public education session on B.C. Human Rights Code will tackle housing, employment and…

Vancouver, B.C. – Building on the success of its fully enrolled spring session, BC’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner will be hosting another free educational session about B.C.’s Human Rights Code this Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. This interactive online session will focus on all three areas covered by the…

October 3, 2023
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Discrimination

Advisory: Upcoming B.C. Human Rights Code public educational session on housing, employment and services

Vancouver, B.C. – On Jun. 6, 2022, BC’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner will hold a free, virtual session to help people understand B.C.’s Human Rights Code and how it protects against discrimination in housing, employment and services.  Whether tuning in as a landlord, tenant, employer, employee, service provider…

May 30, 2023
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Poverty

Human rights of the unhoused must be respected when removing tent city encampment

Vancouver – B.C.’s Human Rights Commissioner has sent a letter to the province’s housing minister and the Mayor of Vancouver, urging them to respect human rights when removing homeless encampments on city streets. A copy of the letter is available here. “The eviction of people and dismantling of their homes…

August 9, 2022
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Poverty

Commissioner’s statement on recent assaults on homeless people

Vancouver - In response to a spate of incidents of violence that had devastating impacts on unhoused people across Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, the commissioner issued the following statement: “Last week's violence is a stark reminder of the devastating impacts of hate and violence on those most marginalized by…

August 3, 2022
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Discrimination

Advisory: Housing and your human rights – renter alert

Everyone has the right to be free from discrimination when renting an apartment, house, co-op unit, or other space. BC’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner is holding a free, virtual session to help people understand the B.C. Human Rights Code and how it can help identify discrimination. The session…

May 17, 2022
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General

Budget submission 2021/22–2023/24

August 17, 2021
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General

Public Interest Disclosure Act: Annual report about disclosures for BC’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner

August 17, 2021
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General

Open letter calling for a national strategy for the collection of disaggregated health data

August 17, 2021