Legal Centre News Volume 65 – Summer 2026 Newsletter
We are pleased to announce the release of the digital edition of our bi-annual newsletter for Summer 2026, Legal Centre News Volume 65!
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. Articles include:
- Recent Changes to Rental Housing Laws
- A Guide: Using Your Preferred vs. Legal Name
- Ontario Corrections Staffing Related Lockdowns Class Action Lawsuit
- Submission to Attorney General Re: Access to Government-Issued Identification for Transgender people
- Tenants Vote: Peterborough Mayoral and Ward Elections
- And more!
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 listed below:
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A Guide: Using Your Preferred vs. Legal Name
- https://citl.news.niu.edu/2024/07/24/the-importance-of-names/
- https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/h-6/
- https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90h19
- https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/chrt/doc/2023/2023chrt43/2023chrt43.html?resultId=e02cfc856034dfe902f2fcc8aab8403&searchId=2026-05-28T10:58:35:337/edba88923fd44059a4a3a16ad1a9f38c
- LGBTQ2+ Law: Practice Issues and Analysis
- https://www.acto.ca/~actoca/assets/files/docs/TipSheet_WhatApplicationsCanIFileAgainstMyLandlord.pdf
Ontario Corrections Staffing Related Lockdowns Class Action Lawsuit
- https://www.attorneync.com/blog/how-file-class-action-lawsuit/
- https://kmlaw.ca/cases/ontario-prisoner-class-action/.
Submission to Attorney General Re: Access to Government-Issued Identification for Transgender People
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/indiana-bureau-of-motor-vehicles-bans-trans-folk-from-changing-gender-on-id/ar-AA1Wdtks
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-015-1867-2
- Transgender People in Ontario, Canada: Statistics from the TransPULSE Project to Inform Human Rights Policy
- https:/egale.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/XY-v-ON.pdf
- https://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/re-consultation-document-%E2%80%93-revised-criteria-change-sex-designation-ontario-birth-registration
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/indiana-bureau-of-motor-vehicles-bans-trans-folk-from-changing-gender-on-id/ar-AA1Wdtks ,
- https://time.com/5596845/world-health-organization-transgender-identity