Year: 2025

New legal information from across Ontario

View this month’s e-blast about resources on helping clients work with legal representatives, rates for OW and ODSP, tenants’ rights, and information on the sex offender registry.

The right to housing in Canada: Join us August 13, 2025 at noon.

The Federal Housing Advocate and the National Right to Housing Network are working to make Canadians aware of their right to housing.

This webinar will focus on what the law says about the right to housing in Canada. It will explain:

• the international human right to housing and Canada’s legal responsibilities
• the housing challenges communities with low incomes face
• Canada’s National Housing Strategy Act and why it calls housing a human right
• the role of the Federal Housing Advocate and its successes
• how communities and people can claim their right to housing
• what the National Housing Council’s Review Panel does

Accessing health benefits in Ontario: Join us July 16, 2025 at noon.

Many people with low incomes in Ontario cannot afford health services not covered by the Ontario Health Insurance Program (OHIP). For example, vision and dental care, and prescription drugs. Other publicly funded programs offer these health services, but the programs are difficult to navigate.

The Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC) produced a Guide to Health Benefits in Ontario for community and health-care workers to help their clients access these programs.

This webinar will focus on ISAC’s guide.

New legal information from across Ontario

View this month’s e-blast about resources on family law, immigration, and legal support in multiple languages, the Canada Disability Benefit, and applying for cooling devices through ODSP/OW.

Urban Indigenous realities: Beyond the myths – Join us June 26, 2025 at noon.

Close to 88% of Indigenous people in Ontario live in cities. And the contributions they make to urban life are often overlooked, misunderstood, or dismissed.

This webinar challenges assumptions and invites deeper understanding of Indigenous people living in urban areas.