Sentences with phrase «residential school cases»

Tennenhouse is just one of number of lawyers involved in residential school cases whose conduct is being examined.

Changes to limitation period laws created important impetus for thousands of residential school cases to be filed.

Finally, where an Ontario lawyer seeks to represent a client in accessing a remedy prescribed under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement agreement announced by the federal government in 2006, he or she is expected to comply with the Law Society's «Guidelines for Lawyers acting in aboriginal Residential School Cases.»

A Law Society of Manitoba panel revoked Howard Tennenhouse's licence on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to professional misconduct related to 55 of his more than 100 residential school cases.

Not exact matches

In the more extreme cases, a full time facility such as a therapeutic boarding school or residential treatment center is needed in order to immerse the troubled teen in an environment that supports and guides them toward effectively managing their disorder.

One implication of the different spatial distribution of people by race is that lots of metropolitan areas have de facto segregated schools, while Brown v. Board of Education and the cases that followed were quite effective in requiring schools in small towns and rural areas with racially mixed populations to be integrated, since they don't have many schools period and don't have nearly as great residential segregation into large nearly mono - racial groups of neighborhoods the way that many large cities do.

Gateway provides a wide array of services to adults, children and families, including around - the - clock psychiatric emergency services, psychiatric medication therapy services, outpatient counseling for individuals and families, specialized residential care for children and adolescents, permanent affordable housing for adults, supervised adult residential services, adult supported housing services, mental health services for adults with persistent mental health issues, a licensed school for children with emotional and behavioral difficulties, nationally recognized vocational and occupational rehabilitation services, a therapeutic outdoor recreation program for children and adolescents, a homeless shelter for families and residential substance abuse services, as well as individual and case management services for adults and children.

In the Serrano cases, it was the state's reliance on local property taxes to pay for education, combined with the residential preferences of higher - income homeowners, which left low - income households with a smaller tax base to fund their schools.

(This is clearly the case with residential segregation, which spurred inequitable school financing systems that rely heavily on property taxes, handicapping poor neighborhoods.)

Through an examination of 3 case studies in Canada's changing history of inclusion, we'll explore Canada's contemporary identity; continuity and change in our nation's universe of obligation; Canada's response to the Holocaust; and the history of Canada's Indian Residential Schools and the call for reconciliation.

Residential School — designed for special case students, usually placed by the courts or the family, with special counseling and educational programs;

I think that the real issue here is whether there have been some corruption cases where some officials and construction builders had some back - door deals that compromised the safety standards for those collapsed school buildings and residential apartment buildings.

As I, in a previous comment # 29 when the subject was: Grief, and Rising Anger, Over Fallen Schools May 16, expressed my experience with State building officials that residential foundations were not even meeting building codes, with possible consequences in case of earth quakes, the response was that when that happened people would have other thing on there mind.

Ontario Provincial Police investigation records from a civil case in the 1990s left out of school information files ahead of compensation hearings under the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement are at the centre of an appeal filed lastschool information files ahead of compensation hearings under the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement are at the centre of an appeal filed lastSchool Settlement Agreement are at the centre of an appeal filed last week.

The author also discusses the blood quantum rule, cultural appropriation, Indigenous use of intellectual property laws, Two - Spirit identities (Indigenous transgender individuals), the landmark Delgamuukw and Tsilhqot» in cases (recognition of Aboriginal title), non-benign myths about Indigenous peoples, the six - volume Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) final report on the residential school system where at least 6,000 Indigenous children died, Canada's Stolen Generations (between 1960 and 1990, 70 - 90 % of Indigenous children in Canada were removed from their homes and placed into non-Indigenous homes), Inuit relocations, the issue of access to safe drinking water for First Nations communities, the five - volume report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Indigenous lands, education, treaties, and treaty - making.

The lack of sensitivity that lawyers often demonstrated in dealing with residential school Survivors resulted, in some cases, in the Survivors» not receiving appropriate legal service.

It is a case that calls attention to the scope of Canada's cultural assimilation of Aboriginal identity during the 20th century, and shows that the residential school system represents a visible part of an iceberg with a mass of history still submerged.

Unlike the comprehensive Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA), which was implemented by the government in September 2007 and remains the largest class action settlement in Canadian history, Sixties Scoop lawsuits remain stuck in the deathly pipeline of legal litigation facing strong governmental resistance (Ontario's Sixties Scoop is no exception as the case was bitterly fought and litigated for eight years).

In some cases, the residential schools they attended before going to a sanatorium would take their names off the attendance roll, leaving them with no record of having attended a recognized residential school.

As a result of this decision, councils and the tribunal will have to take into account the actual expenses involved and, if it is the case that placement at a specialist residential school that can meet the child's needs will actually cost less than a day school placement when social care costs are taken into account, the child must be placed at the residential school.

The case concerned a boy, B, with severe learning difficulties whose parents felt his needs were not being met at the day school where he was placed by the local authority; they felt he should be placed in a residential school.

This case involves a constitutional challenge to a zoning ordinance, enacted by appellant city of Renton, Washington, that prohibits adult motion picture theaters from locating within 1,000 feet of any residential zone, single - or multiple - family dwelling, church, park, or school.

We have worked on cases that are important to individuals and communities in Nunavut, such as land claims and the Residential Schools Class Action.

As we will see in a future paper on the residential school court cases, the Canadian legal system must continue on this path of becoming ever - more civilized.

The case, Taypotat v. Taypotat, dealt with a challenge to a minimum education requirement in the Kahkewistahaw Election Act, and a long - time chief who became ineligible under the act having only obtained a grade ten education in a residential school.

Winkler has been involved in some of the largest and most complex class action cases in Canada, including the Walkerton tainted water case, the Hepatitis C class action, and the Indian residential school issue.

In the case of survivors of residential schools, it also examined the impact of institutional abuse on Aboriginal nations.