October 30, 2018 - Imagine Canada, the umbrella for Canada’s charitable sector, announces the most recent group of organizations to have achieved accreditation under its national Standards Program.…Read More
JHSO in the News
October 26, 2018 - In 2013, George Knia Singh, then a law student at Osgoode Hall Law School, filed a freedom of information request for any records Toronto police might have about him. He received……Read More
October 24, 2018 - The final instalment of CBC Thunder Bay’s 5-part series on homelessness looks at something the city does well…Read More
August 28, 2018 - Criminal record checks are an increasingly common part of job hunting, but for former inmates looking to reenter society, they’re also a discriminatory barrier to finding employment.…Read More
August 14, 2018 - A group of people will be gathering outside the Sudbury Jail today to remember inmates who have died in prison. We’ll learn how Prisoners’ Justice Day came to be, and why it continues to be important more than four decades later. We heard from John Rimore is the executive director of the John Howard Society of Sudbury.…Read More
August 14, 2018 - Annual event honours inmates who have died violent or unnatural deaths…Read More
August 14, 2018 - People need to remember many prisoners are eventually released into the community, says John Howard society director…Read More
August 14, 2018 - Larry Nault first entered prison in June of 1970, beginning with a four-year sentence that he built into a 40-year term, finishing in 2010.…Read More