Racism

Case	Description	Year	Facta
Barney v. Canada (Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development) and United Church of Canada	In 2005, LEAF, the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC), and the DisAbled Women's Network (DAWN) Canada intervened in coalition in this landmark case that sought compensation for Aboriginal residential school survivors subjected to multiple forms of abuse...	2005
Kane et al. v. Alberta Report et al.	The Alberta Human Rights Panel followed the principles earlier enunciated by Alberta Queen's Bench Justice John Rooke in this case that involved an article published in Alberta Report magazine that contained anti-Semitic content...	2001
R.D.S v. The Queen	In this case, the Black judge's comments, made when she acquitted a racial minority youth, R.D.S., of assault charges against a White police officer, were considered biased because the comments acknowledged racism in Halifax, including racism by police officers...	1997
Kane et al. v. Church of Jesus Christ Christian-Aryan Nations et al.	With the Congress of Black Women, LEAF intervened in a complaint regarding cross burnings and other racist actions which took place at a meeting sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ Christian Aryan Nations in Alberta...	1992
Colgate Palmolive	A woman who suffered psychological disability as a result of racist sexual harassment in the workplace won the rights to worker's compensation...	1991	none
Attorney General of Canada v. Daniels	An Aboriginal woman from Saskatchewan was convicted of second-degree murder and convicted to life imprisonment. At issue was whether she should be sent from Saskatchewan to the Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario, which, LEAF argued, would be in violation of race and sex equality guarantees...	1991
The Queen v. Keegstra; Andrews and Smith v. The Queen	James Keegstra was charged with the promotion of hatred under Section 281(2) of the Criminal Code for teaching high school students social theory based on hatred of Jews and Judaism. Keegstra argued that the Charter guaranteed his freedom of expression...	1990
Taylor v. Canadian Human Rights Commission and the Attorney General of Canada	In 1979, the Canada Human Rights Tribunal ruled that the telephone messages denigrating individuals of Jewish origin propagated by John Ross Taylor violated the Human Rights Code. Taylor argued that he was entitled to freedom of expression...	1990