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ACCESS DENIED: Calling for the Revocation of Canada’s Refugee Status Document Requirement for Private Sponsorship

June 17, 2022 – 11:09 am

In 2012, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) amended the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (IRPR). Under Section 135 of the IRPR, refugee status is a requirement of sponsorship under the Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program (PSRP). Refugee status must be obtained from either the United Nations High Commissioner for… Read More

Chasing New Fees: Is FDM Charging You a Fee for Training?

July 30, 2021 – 10:57 am

In March 2021, the Ontario Labour Relations Board (the Board) ruled that FDM Group, could not charge their former employees a $30,000 fee arising from job-training costs for ending their contract during the two-year commitment period. The Board found that the $30,000 charge constituted a fee within the meaning of the Employment Standards Act, which prohibits temporary help agencies from charging workers a fee in connection with them becoming… Read More

Media Release: Temporary Agency’s $30,000 Charge Against Workers Who End Their Employment Deemed Illegal by Ontario Labour Relations Boar

April 8, 2021 – 3:45 pm

The Ontario Labour Relations Board ruled in a March 12, 2021 decision that temporary work agencies cannot charge its workers a fee when they end their work assignments.The decision involved four former temporary workers from FDM Group, a multi-national temporary work agency, who left their assignments arranged through FDM before… Read More

Final Exams are Here! Tips for Avoiding Academic Offences in a Remote Setting

December 8, 2020 – 11:01 am

The information contained here is taken from the University of Toronto Academic Integrity Website, the University of Toronto Missisauga Academic Integrity Website, and the Code of Behaviour on Academic Matters.  What constitutes an academic offence during a remote exam? Generally, submitting someone else’s work as your own, receiving help from… Read More

COVID-19 Update

November 25, 2020 – 11:27 am

Downtown Legal Services will be closed to members of the public during the City of Toronto lock-down (beginning November 23, 2020). If you require legal assistance, please call our intake line at 416-978-6447.

COVID-19 Precautions

September 8, 2020 – 2:30 pm

Downtown Legal Services is open to members of the public by appointment only. Support staff will be on site and available to receive service of documents only on Tuesdays and Fridays. Everyone entering Downtown Legal Services is required to wear a mask. Clients will need to wear a mask during… Read More

Black & Indigenous Lives Matter

July 28, 2020 – 3:28 pm

DLS stands in solidarity with the Black community and protestors around the world in raising our voices against anti-Black racism and police brutality.  The murder of George Floyd and the suspicious death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet are the latest in devastatingly long list of Black people’s lives that have been damaged and extinguished… Read More

Separated Uyghur-Canadian Families: Canada must bring them home

July 10, 2020 – 12:04 pm

Khalil Mamut’s dream is to be reunited with his three young children.[/caption]Imagine escaping from a home where you do not feel safe, just to be captured and sent to a horrifying prison. There, you live in pain, and people accuse you of crimes you have not committed. Years later, you are freed and your… Read More

Report from the 2019 Conference of the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness

November 8, 2019 – 2:30 pm

DLS housing lawyer Benjamin Ries was a panelist at the annual conference of the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness in Edmonton, AB from November 4-6, 2019. This is his blog entry. Approximately 1500 conference attendees from all levels of government, academia, social housing agencies, and the non-profit service sector gathered… Read More