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Maintaining a Discriminatory Status Quo is not Always Cheap. In a decision issued on August 11, 2022, the BC Human Rights Tribunal held that a bookstore discriminated when it failed to provide ASL interpreters for a DeafBlind man attending a workshop. It awarded the man $2,500 in compensation for injury to his dignity, feelings, and self-respect.

Maintaining a Discriminatory Status Quo is not Always Cheap: Tribunal Finds Bookshop’s Failure to Arrange for ASL Interpreters at Free Workshop Discriminatory, Awards Complainant $2,500 Maintaining a discriminatory status quo is not always cheap. In a decision issued by the BC Human Rights Tribunal on August 11, 2022, Tribunal Member Devyn Cousineau held that a bookstore discrimin…

In a decision issued on June 1, 2022, BC Human Rights Tribunal Member Grace Chen held that a housing co-operative discriminated against a member resident when it failed to adequately address mould growth in her townhouse.

Human Rights Tribunal Finds Disability Discrimination by Housing Co-Op Failing to Remove Mould, Awards Over $20,000 In a decision issued on June 1, 2022, Cameron v. Burrardview Housing Co-operative (No. 3), 2022 BCHRT 74, BC Human Rights Tribunal Member Grace Chen held that a housing co-operative discriminated a…

In a decision issued by the BC Human Rights Tribunal on March 1, 2022 following a three-day hearing from December 6-9, 2021, an employee's s*x discrimination complaint against the Vancouver Island Health Authority ("VIHA") was dismissed.

BC Human Rights Tribunal Dismisses Employee’s S*x Discrimination Complaint Against VIHA In a decision issued by the BC Human Rights Tribunal on March 1, 2022 following a three-day hearing from December 6-9, 2021, an employee's s*x discrimination complaint against the Vancouver Island Health Authority ("VIHA") was dismissed.