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  • Image: "poked and prodded baby - _MG_4085" by sean dreilinger is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Today a troubling story out of my home province of Saskatchewan.   If statements coming out of that province are true, this problem exists in other provinces too. A woman who is an Indian citizen, referred to as “Jo”, traveled to Canada...

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  • Image: "Pension Plan - retired couple on a stack of coins" by verchmarco is licensed under CC BY 2.0
In Fraser v. Canada (Attorney General), the Supreme Court of Canada recently held that the RCMP violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (the Charter) for women who job shared. This case involved indirect, or adverse effect, discrimination. This occurs...

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Have you wondered what your rights are to attend to family responsibilities during working hours? Or, are you an employer wondering if you can say “no” to an employee who requests much time away from work to deal with family obligations? The...

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