Health Sciences 4092F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ontario Human Rights Commission, Fide, Ageism
12 Apr 2021
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What is discrimination? (from ontario human rights commission: defining discrimination, not individually assessing the unique merits, capacities, and circumstances of a person. Instead, making stereotypical assumptions based on a person"s presumed traits: having the impact of excluding persons, denying benefits, or imposing burdens, barriers, negative attitudes, stereotypes, and biases lead to discrimination. If the rule is not inclusive and doesn"t accommodate individual differences to the point of undue hardship, it is discriminatory: reprisal and threat of reprisal. Is a form of stereotyping based on preconceived ideas about a person"s character. It is discriminatory for decisions to be based on presumed characteristics instead of unbiased assessments of a person"s behaviour. Summary of truth and reconciliation report: the truth and reconciliation commission started working in 2008. Trauma-informed care lecture 6 notes on readings: projects proposed 25, not started 44, to work together to repair the harm done and to move forward with reconciliation, canada must move from apology to action .
