Legal Centre News Volume 58 – Fall 2022 Newsletter
We are pleased to announce the release of the digital edition of our bi-annual newsletter for Fall 2022, Legal Centre News Volume 58!
This volume of the Peterborough Community Legal Centre newsletter features articles on a few of the many overlapping issues of inequality facing people in our community today, including:
- COP 27 and Peterborough’s Inaction on Climate Change
- Where Should Unionized Workers go to Make a Human Rights Complaint?
- Joint Letter to the Ontario Government about Bill23 the “More Homes Built Faster Act”
- Intimate Partner Violence in the Workplace: A Risk for all Workers
- Housing is Fundamental, 2022
- The Notwithstanding Clause: A Brief History
All images in this newsletter are credited and some articles include links to sources. These links are accessible on the digital copy of the newsletter and they are listed below.
COP 27 and Peterborough’s inaction on climate change: How Low-Income and Disabled people will be most affected:
- https://www.un.org/en/
climatechange/cop27 - https://www.peterborough.ca/
en/city-hall/city-climate- change-plans-and-policies.aspx - https://www.un.org/en/
climatechange/net-zero- coalition - https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.
1073/pnas.0705414105 - https://www.ipcc.ch/ar6-syr/
- https://www.
thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ local-peterborough/opinion/ 2022/10/21/why-are-annual- climate-change-targets-so- important.html#:~:text=On% 20Sept.,the%20Climate% 20Emergency%20no%20credibility - https://www.
thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ local-peterborough/opinion/ 2022/05/27/recent-storm-is-a- peek-into-our-climate-change- future.html - https://www.acto.ca/the-
landlord-and-tenant-board-is- broken-going-digital-hasnt- fixed-it-and-its-time-to-end- the-experiment/ - https://www.
peterboroughpublichealth.ca/ august-the-planet-is-changing- and-so-will-your-health/ - https://kawarthanow.com/2021/
10/07/taking-action-against- climate-change-while- protecting-our-mental-health/ - https://icleicanada.org/wp-
content/uploads/2020/03/City- of-Peterborough-Climate- Change-Resiliency-Strategy.pdf - https://www.peterborough.ca/
en/city-hall/city-climate- change-plans-and-policies. aspx#Community-Climate-Change- Resiliency-Strategy
Joint Letter to the Ontario Government About Bill 23 the “More Homes Built Faster Act”
Housing is Fundamental, Yet Again
- https://www.uwpeterborough.ca/2022/10/12/7504/#:~:text=Key%20findings%20include%3A,in%20the%20province%20at%201%25
- https://www.ptbocanada.com/journal/mayor-diane-therrien-declares-state-of-emergency-on-homelessness
- https://stepstojustice.ca/questions/housing-law/how-much-can-my-rent-go/
- https://www.acto.ca/vacancy-decontrol-what-is-it-and-why-does-it-matter/
- https://www.uwpeterborough.ca/2022/11/14/united-way-releases-the-2022-living-wage-report-titled-the-gap/
- https://www.acto.ca/the-landlord-and-tenant-board-is-broken-going-digital-hasnt-fixed-it-and-its-time-to-end-the-experiment/
- https://policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/our-opportunity-end-housing-poverty
Images
- https://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/news/peterborough-region/2022/11/12/photos-rally-held-in-peterorough-as-world-leaders-discuss-the-environment-in-egypt.html
- https://www.thestar.com/pe/news/peterborough-region/2022/11/04/striking-cupe-education-workers-protest-at-peterborough-kawartha-mpp-dave-smiths-office.html