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Waterloo v Persons to be Named

UN Human Rights Committee Review of Canada March 2026

Heegsma v Hamilton

Kanyinda v Quebec: Interventions and Translations of Documents

The Ongoing Nell Toussaint case on right to life of irregular migrants and healthcare

The National Housing Strategy Act and the right to housing in Canada

Implementation of International Human Rights in Canada: The Ongoing Struggle

The 2019 Toronto Housing Charter and its Implementation Plan

The Tanudjaja Charter challenge to the failure to address homelessness

Canada Without Poverty v. Canada (AG) on freedom of chairities to engage in political activity

Charter Committee on Poverty Issues Interventions

Social Rights In Canada Community-University Research Project

Challenging the Implementation Gap: The Ongoing Struggle for International Human Rights in Canada

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CCPI/CHC/FCJRC and AI/ESCR-Net file facta in Toussaint v Canada

ESCR-Net/SRAC Submission on Toussaint Case and Access to Justice for Canada's Universal Periodic Review

CCPI Submission on Access to Justice for Social Rights for Canada's 2024 Universal Periodic Review

Michèle Biss, Bruce Porter, Sahar Raza, & David Desbaillets, Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Housing: A Literature Review

Three papers on implementing the right to housing under the National Housing Strategy Act

Presentations to Dept of Justice and OGD on National Housing Strategy Act with NRHN and WNHHN

Charities liberated to engage in public policy after groundbreaking decn of Justice Ed Morgan in Canada Without Poverty v Canada

CERA and National Right to Housing Network SUBMISSION under the National Housing Strategy Act.

Bruce Porter, La interdependencia de · los derechos humanos in Derechos sociales y el momento constituyente de Chile: Perspectivas globales y locales para el debate constitucional (Distrito Global, 2021)

Bruce Porter, Implementing the Right to Adequate Housing Under the National Housing Strategy Act: The International Human Rights Framework (2021) (en francais)

Martha Jackman & Bruce Porter "Social and Economic Rights" in P. Oliver, P. Macklem and N. Des Rosiers, The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution (New York, Oxford Univesity Press, 2017) at pp 843-866.

Martha Jackman and Bruce Porter (eds)  Advancing Social Rights in Canada (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2014)

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1992 Alternative Social Charter

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Heegsma v Hamilton Appeal to Court of Appeal for Ontario

 


Heegsma v. Hamilton (City)
, 2024 ONSC 7154

Appellant's Factum

Global Index witj Case Centre Pagination

Appeal Book Ontario Court of Appeal

Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume 3

Volume 4

Volume 5

Volume 6

Volume 7

Volume 8

Volume 9

Volume 10

Volume 11

Volume 12

Applicant's Motion Record

Volume 1: Notice of Application, Relevant Bylaws, Endorsement Orders

Volume 2 Residents' affidavits

Volume 3 Residents' affidavits

Voume 4 Evidence of Dr. Claire Bodkin, Audrey Davis, Benjamin Hognestad, Dr. Rachel Lamont, Olivia Mancini

Volume 5 Evidence of Leilani Farha and Stephen Gaetz

Volume 6 X-examination of Stephen Gaetz and Gaetz Exhibits

Volume 7 Evidence of Dr. Kate Hayman and Dr. Stephen Hwang

Voume 8 X-examination of Stephen Hwang, Exhibit I and Affidavit of Joseph Ameil

Volume 9 Supplementary Affidavit of Joseph Ameil + exibits; Affidavit of Dr. Aaron Orkin

Volume 10 Aaron Orkin exhibits A-F

Volume 11 Evidence of Kaitlin Schwan

Volume 12 X-Examination of Kaitlin Schwan and Exhibits 1 - 11; Evidence of Andrea Sereda

Volume 13 Evicence of Brett Ashton and Evidence of Danielle Blake

Volume 14 Evidence of David Buckle, Karen Bunn, Monica Cierello, Trevor Haalstra

Volume 15 Evidence of Steve Hasselman

Volume 16 Evidence of Wesley Loy, Cory Manning, Roberto Mastroianni, Frank Miscione

Volume 17 Evidence of Tessa Macfadzean, Shawn Mackeigan, James Moulton; Evidence of City of Hamilton Expert Witness Dr. Sharon Koivu

Volume 18 Requests to Admit a - f; Response to Requests

Volume 19 Requests to Admit May 21,2024 and June 7, 2024

Voume 20 Response to Request to Admit August 26, 2024; Requests to Admit October 18, 2024; Response November 7 2014; Requests November 8, 2024 and November 22, 2024.

Coming Together to End Homelessness 2019

2023 Hamitlon encampment protocol

2023 Encampment Response Update – August 2023

 

 

Not in record: Homelessness as Analogous Ground

Kaitlin Schwan Affidavit for Bill 6 Challenge