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January 30, 2020 - Smudging Ceremony in School Not Found to be a Charter Infringement

Smudging Ceremony in School Not Found to be a Charter Infringement Servatius v Alberni School District No. 70, 2020 BCSC 15…
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November 28, 2019 - Student's expulsion for alleged sexual assault quashed on appeal

TS v Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board, 2019 CFSRB 61 The School Board’s decision to expel the Appellant, a student who…
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October 31, 2019 - Arbitrator upholds without pay suspension of teacher who remained silent when faced with allegations of inappropriate conduct with students

Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association v Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board, 2019 CanLII 95001 (ON LA) An arbitrator upheld…
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September 19, 2019 - OLRB determines that bargaining issues raised by OSSTF are to be bargained centrally

Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation v. The Crown in Right of Ontario, et al. (September 6, 2019 – OLRB) OSSTF filed…
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August 13, 2019 - Arbitrator upholds teacher’s termination for inappropriate relationships with students

Sudbury Catholic District School Board and OECTA, Re, 2019 CarswellOnt 4511  The grievor, an automotive technology teacher with three (3) years of…
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May 17, 2019 - School board’s expulsion of Grade 2 student upheld

LK v Upper Grand District Board (EA 311.7), 2019 CFSRB 2 LK, a grade 2 student who was diagnosed with Autism…
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April 12, 2019 - Court dismisses challenge to Ontario’s Sex Education Curriculum

ETFO et al v Her Majesty the Queen, 2019 ONSC 1308 The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario and the Canadian Civil…
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March 1, 2019 - Supreme Court of Canada finds students had a reasonable expectation of privacy

R v Jarvis, 2019 SCC 10 The Supreme Court of Canada held that a teacher was guilty of voyeurism under the Criminal…
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February 7, 2019 - Human Rights Tribunal Refuses to Award Interim Remedy Without a Full Hearing

MT v Toronto District School Board, 2018 HRTO 1788 The applicant, a grade six student diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, requested…
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December 6, 2018 - Bill 47, Making Ontario Open for Business Act, 2018, Receives Royal Assent

Bill 47, Making Ontario Open For Business Act, 2018 received Royal Assent on November 21, 2018. The Bill amends the Employment Standards Act,…
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