Sentences with phrase «racialized groups»

«This study reminds us that the workforce integration challenges that certain ethnic and racialized groups face, whether they are immigrants or not, are not only due to skill and experience issues, but also to employers» discriminatory preferences,» said the president of the commission, Gaétan Cousineau.

The same student opined that the reputation of the Law Society would suffer «when a disproportionate number of LPP students are found to be minorities, racialized groups, etc.» The LPP will perpetuate the systemic disadvantages that already face students from equity seeking groups.

Canada's retention and application of the archaic offense of pretending to practice witchcraft is problematic, both in its purpose and the disproportionate effect it has on women and certain religious and racialized groups.

Sorry that should have read «new calls who are members of racialized groups would still be overrepresented relative to Ontario's population».

Ha - Redeye is calling for every new judge from 2016 to have had some type of experience or contact with racialized groups.

Wan na bet that group disproportionately includes members of racialized groups, for all the reasons you mention?)

So, at the very least (depending on the non-respondents) almost 40 % of the class identify as members of a racialized group.

Roughly 1 / 3rd of new calls in Ontario — most of whom attend law school in Ontario — identify as being members of a racialized group (an imperfect estimate, given the LSUC methodology, but probably a good first order approximation)-- by way of comparison 22 % of Ontarians are identified by stats can as being «visible minorities».

In 2015, it was slightly more than 40 % that identified as members of a racialized group.

With this case, Canadian law has rightly provided protection against defamation to an individual subjected to repeated published attacks on her reputation that were not only false as found by the jury's findings of defamation, but which specifically defamed the plaintiff based on her status as a member of a racialized group.

Not exact matches

Tips for White Men Dating Black Women Online Even if white men aren't the group to hold stereotypes and racial biases against black women, they are the ones who are least informed on gendered and racialized problems that most black women face every day.

Group differences in school outcomes represent ill - gotten gains that schools must equalize by ridding themselves of «white privilege,» «racialized hierarchies,» and «opportunity hoarding.»

Housing segregation in the United States has a disturbing history of continued oppression of minority groups, specifically African Americans, by maintaining racialized patterns of housing throughout the nation.

It is critical that the work of the Law Society of Upper Canada's Working Group on the Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees not get lost in all this regulatory alphabet soup.

The Working Group on the Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees has provided the path forward.

: Reflections on the Law Society's Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group Report

One point made by equity seeking groups to the Working Group was that not only is access to justice impeded by the systematic exclusion of racialized licensees in the province, but it also runs contrary to the public interest.

The working group also heard from participants about how best to improve the complaints process for lawyers who face racialized discrimination as well as how to improve cultural competence and understanding of unconscious bias.

Consider the countless resources put into The Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group over 4 years, all to come up with the conclusion that there is widespread discrimination by lawyers against other lawyers on the basis of race.

Key informants, focus group participants and survey respondents identified racialization as a significant factor that shapes the experiences and career outcomes of racialized licensees.

The term «racialized» expresses race as the process by which groups are socially constructed, as well as modes of self - identification related to race, and includes Arab, Black (e.g. African - Canadian, African, Caribbean), East - Asian (e.g.Japanese, Korean), South - Asian (e.g. Indo - Canadian, Indian Subcontinent), South - East Asian (e.g. Vietnamese, Cambodian, Thai, Filipino) and West Asian (e.g. Iranian, Afghan) persons.

«Criminal offences» and «suspicious activities» were disproportionately cited as reasons for stopping racialized drivers, and «final (no action)» outcomes were disproportionately high among Indigenous, black, Middle Eastern and «other racialized» minority groups.

The group's mandate was to investigate the challenges faced by racialized licensees and consider strategies for enhanced inclusion at all career stages.

As co-chairman of the Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees working group, Anand presented the group's final report to Convocation on Dec. 2, 2016 and obtained the approval of the Law Society of Upper Canada.

The groups hiring practices requiring women and racialized minorities to be shortlisted for positions have resulted in the group in North America comprised of 71 per cent women and 21 per cent racialized minorities.

The Law Society of Upper Canada is trying to bring more attention to issues of diversity and equity in the profession through a working group and reports such as Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees.

The Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group was established in 2012 to gather information and develop recommendations to address these challenges.

It would, however, allow clients and colleagues to know that it is that lawyer's intention to do the bare minimum to support racialized licensees and other underrepresented groups in our profession.

On a smaller scale, the final report of the Law Society of Upper Canada's Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group includes a recommendation that the Law Society, every four years, develop and publish an inclusion index which would «include legal workplaces» assessments of their diversity and inclusion - related achievements and that would allow legal workplaces to demonstrate their performance and progress.»

It must take an intersectional approach, recognizing that particular groups of women and girls — including First Nations, Inuit, Métis, racialized, disabled, refugee, immigrant, transgender, lesbian, bisexual and single parent women and girls — experience particular forms of discrimination and deepened disadvantage.

To address this, LSUC is undertaking a formal working group to Address Challenges faced by Racialized Licensees, culminating in a 2014 report.

«I am not surprised that we have heard from a small but vocal segment of the legal profession and other commentators about the words I am proud to have drafted and insisted upon, and which passed after a healthy debate at Convocation,» says Anand, who is a co-chairman of the law society's Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group.

Seven pairs of focus groups with racialized licensees and one pair with non-racialized licensees across Ontario

The creation of these Statements, with the greatest respect to the Law Society's Racialized Licensees Working Group, is not sufficient.

COP - COC is a province - wide initiative made up of individuals, groups and organizations working to build community - based capacity to address the growing racialization of poverty — for both First Peoples and peoples of colour — and the resulting increased levels of social exclusion and marginalization of racialized communities across Ontario.

Re-introduce the policy imperatives of employment equity to Ontario in order to level the playing field for racialized communities & other historically disadvantaged groups.

The Islamophobia Legal Assistance Hotline (ILAH) is a coalition of legal organizations and concerned lawyers in British Columbia that works in solidarity with Muslim and racialized communities to combat Islamophobia and racism through the provision of free legal advice and representation to individuals and groups affected by Islamophobia and related racism.

Background: In September 2017, Ontario lawyers were informed by the Law Society of Ontario that they were expected to comply with a set of strategies adopted by the Law Society to address barriers to admission and within the profession faced by racialized licensees and other equality seeking groups.

Our submission provided information about racial profiling and how to identify it; explained (1) why the OPP's DNA collection from migrant workers appeared to be consistent with racial profiling, and (2) how police DNA collection may disproportionately affect racialized and marginalized groups; and made recommendations on how the OPP can address racial bias in its policing.

Changes have been made to the judicial application form to give applicants the options to self - identify as belonging to a racialized community, an ethnic or cultural group, as having a disability, as indigenous and as LGBTQ2 +.

Indeed, it's telling that the Racialized Licensee Working group report recommended, as necessary, amendments to the Rules to «reinforce» this obligation — I read that as a subtle admission that the obligation is not there.

The origin of the obligation is the adoption of Recommendation 3 (1) in the Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group's Final Report.

The Diverse Champions for Diversity is a grassroots group of senior racialized lawyers both in - house and in private practice with strong ties to the Canadian Association of Black Lawyers, Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers, and the South Asian Bar Association.

For example, the Community Liaison Report provided to the Law Society of Upper Canada's Challenges Faced By Racialized Licensee Working Group reported, among other things, that:

The Law Society of Upper Canada created the Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group in 2012 to identify the challenges faced by racialized lawyers and paralegals and consider strategies for enhanced inclusion at all careRacialized Licensees Working Group in 2012 to identify the challenges faced by racialized lawyers and paralegals and consider strategies for enhanced inclusion at all careracialized lawyers and paralegals and consider strategies for enhanced inclusion at all career stages.

After gathering extensive information about the challenges faced by racialized licensees and best practices to address these challenges, the Working Group prepared a consultation paper, which was presented to Convocation on October 30, 2014.

The Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group found that racialized lawyers and paralegals face barriers at all stages of theiRacialized Licensees Working Group found that racialized lawyers and paralegals face barriers at all stages of theiracialized lawyers and paralegals face barriers at all stages of their careers.

Member, Access to Justice Committee, Paralegal Standing Committee, Priorities Planning Committee, Challenges for Racialized Licensees Working Group