Grants and Contributions

This project will support the organization's overarching initiative to create respectful workplaces in the arts. The project will work toward the development of a reporting mechanism for workplace harassment in the arts. In addition, the project will undertake a feasibility study to explore the viability of developing an investigation mechanism for workplace harassment in the arts.

Criminal legal aid helps support legal services for economically-disadvantaged persons accused of serious criminal offences and for youth charged under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Immigration and refugee legal aid supports legal services for eligible individuals appearing at immigration and refugee proceedings. The Legal Aid Program also manages and funds State-Funded Counsel cases on behalf of the federal government, where the Attorney General of Canada is ordered by a court to provide funded defence counsel, or where the Department reimburses legal aid plan costs in national security proceedings. Additionally, time-limited funding has been made available through the Legal Aid Program for legal information and advice services for individuals impacted by workplace sexual harassment.

Criminal legal aid helps support legal services for economically-disadvantaged persons accused of serious criminal offences and for youth charged under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Immigration and refugee legal aid supports legal services for eligible individuals appearing at immigration and refugee proceedings. The Legal Aid Program also manages and funds State-Funded Counsel cases on behalf of the federal government, where the Attorney General of Canada is ordered by a court to provide funded defence counsel, or where the Department reimburses legal aid plan costs in national security proceedings. Additionally, time-limited funding has been made available through the Legal Aid Program for legal information and advice services for individuals impacted by workplace sexual harassment.

This project will launch an online course to support employers to prevent and address sexual harassment in workplaces. The course will be offered in English and French to employers from across the country. The course will offer information and education to help employers better understand sexual harassment, how to identify and prevent it, and the applicable human rights obligations. The project will also offer employers sample sexual harassment policies to support developing policies for their business or organization.

Criminal legal aid helps support legal services for economically-disadvantaged persons accused of serious criminal offences and for youth charged under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Immigration and refugee legal aid supports legal services for eligible individuals appearing at immigration and refugee proceedings. The Legal Aid Program also manages and funds State-Funded Counsel cases on behalf of the federal government, where the Attorney General of Canada is ordered by a court to provide funded defence counsel, or where the Department reimburses legal aid plan costs in national security proceedings. Additionally, time-limited funding has been made available through the Legal Aid Program for legal information and advice services for individuals impacted by workplace sexual harassment.

This project will continue to support child and adult vulnerable witnesses in British Columbia through the construction and enhancement of witness rooms across the province. Witness rooms will be built in five new locations, and improvements and soundproofing in existing witness rooms across the province, including in rural and remote communities. The witness rooms will directly benefit victims of crime, and in particular child, youth and adult victims who are witnesses in cases involving sexual and intimate partner violence.

This project will develop and implement a comprehensive territory-wide public legal education and supported service to complainants with regards to workplace sexual harassment in Yukon. The project will develop and deliver public legal education information (with a specific focus on vulnerable populations), deliver a series of in-person and online courses specifically developed for the northern cultural and legal context, and will support an online chatbot to enable anonymous documentation of evidence. The project will provide outreach to remote communities across the territory and bring together stakeholders through bi-annual conference and regional meetings.

The project will address and support the prevention of sexual harassment in Saskatchewan workplaces. Through multi-stakeholder partnerships, and in coordination with service providers, the project will provide legal and employment information and education through workshops targeting employment stakeholders, professional services, and business leaders. A workplace public education campaign will also be implemented across the province, accompanied by resource materials and online tools.

The organization proposes to produce four issues of the electronic magazine entitled "Criminological Highlights", an information service designed to bring criminological research findings to those interested in the justice system. In each issue, eight items from the current criminological literature (articles, books, journals, reports, newsletters, papers, etc.) will be summarized and distributed to judges, police, academics, crown attorneys, defense counsel, provincial and federal government officials, and others interested in research related to criminal justice issues in Canada and in foreign countries.

Criminal legal aid helps support legal services for economically-disadvantaged persons accused of serious criminal offences and for youth charged under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Immigration and refugee legal aid supports legal services for eligible individuals appearing at immigration and refugee proceedings. The Legal Aid Program also manages and funds State-Funded Counsel cases on behalf of the federal government, where the Attorney General of Canada is ordered by a court to provide funded defence counsel, or where the Department reimburses legal aid plan costs in national security proceedings. Additionally, time-limited funding has been made available through the Legal Aid Program for legal information and advice services for individuals impacted by workplace sexual harassment.