November 19, 2018 - New provincial law requires summary convictions dropped from record after 5 years
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JHSO in the News
November 5, 2018 - Former NHL-er says abuse of drugs and addiction were the results of broken past relationships…Read More
November 5, 2018 - Former NHLer and motivational speaker Theo Fleury spoke to a sold-out room (350 people) full of Saultities from all walks of life at the Marconi Club on Thursday evening as part of the John Howard Society’s 50th anniversary.…Read More
November 1, 2018 - Ontario’s nonprofit justice sector got stronger this week. Twenty of the province’s leading access to justice organizations received a Catalyst grant from The Law Foundation of Ontario.…Read More
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
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