Louise Arbour, ( born February 10, 1947 ) is the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and the Court of Appeal for Ontario and a former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

Each province has its own act, such as Ontario and British Columbia's respective good Samaritan acts ; Alberta's Emergency Medical Aid Act ; and Nova Scotia's Volunteer Services Act Only in Quebec, a civil law jurisdiction, does a person have a general duty to respond, as written in the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms.

In 1993, she was appointed Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, and served until 1996.

Later in the same year, Rae argued that the Peterson government should reform the Ontario Human Rights Code to include provisions for group defamation and systematic discrimination.

In December 2007, the Canadian Islamic Congress ( CIC ) launched complaints with the Canadian Human Rights Commission, British Columbia Human Rights Commission, and the Ontario Human Rights Commission against Maclean's accusing it of publishing 18 articles between January 2005 and July 2007 that they considered Islamophobic in nature including a column by Mark Steyn titled " The future belongs to Islam.

On November 28, 2005, Hall was appointed Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission.

In November 2005, Hall was appointed the Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission ( OHRC ).

The government also expanded the provisions of the Ontario Human Rights Code, and expanded bilingual services without introducing official bilingualism to the province.

It was also critical of the Ontario Human Rights Commission and of affirmative action programs.

The government of Leslie Frost was the first to pass laws providing penalties for racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination on private property ; these laws, introduced in the early 1950s as the Fair Employment Practices Act and Fair Accommodation Practices Act, started a movement in Ontario politics that produced the Ontario Human Rights Code in 1962 and later legislation.

* 1962 – Passage of the Ontario Human Rights Code, which amalgamates and extends previous laws about civil rights.

) On November 5, 1999 the United Nations Human Rights Committee condemned Canada and Ontario for having violated the equality provisions ( Article 26 ) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

In 2007, a complaint was filed with the Ontario Human Rights Commission related to an article " The Future Belongs to Islam ",

The Ontario Human Rights Commission refused in April 2008 to proceed, saying it lacked jurisdiction to deal with magazine content.

The proposal was met with criticism from several sources, including Ontario Human Rights Commissioner Keith Norton, himself a former Progressive Conservative cabinet minister, who expressed concern that it could violate Ontario's human rights code, but officials including Baird justified the measures as, " necessary in order to push people still receiving assistance toward independence.

The law was one of the foundations that led to the eventual passage of the Ontario Human Rights Code.

MacLeod was also involved in the establishment of the Ontario Human Rights Commission in 1961.

He was president of the Canadian Jewish Congress from 1977 to 1980, and was also vice-chair of the Ontario Human Rights Commission.

On 11 April 2012, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario ruled that genital surgery isn't required to recognize a change in sex designation.

In support of Deep Lake Water Cooling ( DLWC ), the launch was attended by actor and renewable energy activist Alec Baldwin, Ontario Minister of Energy Dwight Duncan, Canadian Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development Joe Volpe, and Toronto Deputy Mayor Sandra Bussin, among other business leaders and government officials.

* Ontario Human Rights Commission

' Ontario Superior Court judge Sidney Lederman agreed that this situation violated the rights of the applicants as set out by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ( 1982 ).

Sixteen years later in 1996, based on precedent that would be established in Ontario ( 1989 ), required recitation of the Lord ’ s Prayer as outlined in the Public Schools Act would be held to violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

BC MP Randy White indicated his willingness near the end of the campaign to use the notwithstanding clause of the Canadian Constitution to override the Charter of Rights on the issue of same-sex marriage, and Cheryl Gallant, another Ontario MP, compared abortion to terrorism.

The party's provincial executive is composed of the party's officers, six men and six women elected on a regional basis, three women and three men elected at large, one woman and one man elected by the Ontario New Democratic Youth, two women representing the Women's Committee, one woman and one man representing the Lesbian, Gay and Trans-identified Committee, one women and one man representing the party's ethnic committees, one woman and one man representing the Disability Rights Committee and one woman and one man representing the Aboriginal Section.

In 2012, Rogers Cable filed a complaint in an Ontario court against penalties levied under a ' Truth in Advertising ' law, claiming that the amount of the penalties, and the requirements imposed by the law, are in violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

In the ruling, the Court held that the Ontario government violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by denying agricultural workers unionization rights under Ontario labor law as it had infringed on those workers ' freedom of association.

Baxter was a leader of the Maritime Rights Movement which expressed the discontent felt by the maritime provinces concerning their loss of influence in the Canadian confederation dominated by the provinces of Quebec and Ontario.

* Ontario Telephone Service Commission

CANDU reactors were first developed in the late 1950s and 1960s by a partnership between Atomic Energy of Canada Limited ( AECL ), the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario ( now Ontario Power Generation ), Canadian General Electric ( now GE Canada ), and other companies.

The province harnessed its water power to generate hydro-electric power and created the state-controlled Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario, later Ontario Hydro.

The Toronto Transit Commission ( TTC ) is a public transport agency that operates transit bus, streetcar, and rapid transit services in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

* St. Lawrence Parks Commission ( Ontario )

On the Canadian side, the Niagara Parks Commission governs land usage along the entire course of the Niagara River, from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario.

The division commander serves on two national and international decision-making bodies: co-chair of the Lake Superior, Niagara, and Ontario / St Lawrence Seaway boards of control ; and the Mississippi River Commission.

In 1995, Madam Louise Arbour was appointed as President of a Commission of Inquiry, under the Inquiries Act, for the purpose of investigating and reporting on events at the Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario, following allegations by prisoners of abuse.

In the years immediately following WWII, the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission purchased huge amounts of war-surplus Bailey bridging, and established a small design group to promote its use in novel applications ; for example, the trestles required for an extensive gravel-classification set-up for the power plants then being built on the Ottawa River.

* London Transit Commission, a public transit operator in London, Ontario, Canada

Development and land use on and adjacent to the escarpment is regulated by the Niagara Escarpment Commission, an agency of the Ontario government.

Music-based commercial radio stations in Canada are mandated by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to reserve at least 35 per cent of their playlists for Canadian content, although exemptions are granted in some border cities ( e. g. Windsor, Ontario ) where the competition from American stations threatens the survival of Canadian broadcasters, and for stations whose formats may not have enough Canadian recordings available to meet the 35 per cent target ( e. g. classical, jazz or pop standards ).

On July 11, 2012, Maple Group's deal was approved by all federal and provincial regulatory authorities, including the Ontario Securities Commission.

Ryerson did not think that modern languages or history, practical courses, nor even Law or Medicine belonged in a university, and a Royal Commission was struck which recommended that the endowment of the University be distributed among all Ontario colleges.

A longtime director of the Canadian Trotting Association, for ten years John Hayes served as its president and was Vice-Chairman of the Ontario Racing Commission.

Roy MacLaren is currently the Chairman of the Canada-India Business Council he also co-Chairs the Canada Europe Roundtable for Business, sits on the Council of the Champlain Society, the Executive Committee of the Trilateral Commission, the Board of Directors of the Royal Ontario Museum Foundation Board, is President of St Catharine's College Society, and a director of The Council for Business and the Arts in Canada.

He served for seven years on the National Capital Commission before running for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 1987 provincial election.

A paralegal license allows a paralegal to independently represent clients in provincial offences court, summary conviction criminal court, small claims court and administrative tribunals such as the Financial Services Commission of Ontario or the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board.

Examples include the Liquor Control Board of Ontario and the Manitoba Liquor Control Commission.

After having L-band DAB for several years, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC ) have also looked at the use of HD Radio, given its gradual progress in the neighbouring U. S. The CBC began HD Radio testing in September 2006, focusing on transmissions from Toronto and Peterborough, Ontario.

* Niagara Escarpment Commission, an agency of the Ontario government