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If you are facing violence in the workplace please contact the Northumberland Community Legal Centre at 905 373-4464 for free and confidential legal advice

If your facing workplace issues and would like to know your employment rights please contact the Northumberland Community Legal Centre at 905 373-4464 for free and confidential legal advice.

Dec 3, 2022 The United Nations established International Day of Persons with Disabilities. On this day we focus on the challenges and barriers that persons with disabilities experience – as well as their successes – in our workplaces, unions and communities. The observance of the Day aims to promote an understanding of disability issues and mobilize…

Across the globe 1 in 3 women, have suffered violence during their lifetime. Violence against women and girls is still a widespread human rights violation that takes many forms: from domestic violence; psychological violence; harassment; early marriage; sexual abuse to femicide. A pervasive violence that has long-term devastating effects on the lives of women and…

Louis Riel Day is held every year on November 16 across the Métis homelands. November 16 is the anniversary of Riel’s execution in 1885. During that year, Riel led Métis people in the Northwest Resistance, which was a stand against the Government of Canada because it was encroaching on Metis rights and our way-of-life. The…