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PCLS is dedicated to building an organization that reflects the diversity of our clients and the people we work with. This includes diversity in languages spoken, culture, race, sexual orientation…
Continue ReadingMedia Release: Income Security Advocacy Centre and Parkdale Community Legal Services welcome the Supreme Court’s landmark decision for gig workers
Toronto: In a ground-breaking decision released this morning, the Supreme Court of Canada made it easier for workers to challenge unfair contractual terms imposed by companies that hire them, whether…
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Parkdale Community Legal Services (PCLS) is both a community legal clinic and teaching clinic for Osgoode Hall Law School students in downtown Toronto. We work with low income community members…
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Parkdale Community Legal Services (PCLS) is both a community legal clinic and teaching clinic for Osgoode Hall Law School students in downtown Toronto. We work with low income community members…
Continue ReadingPCLS Supports Tenant Organizing during COVID-19
These are challenging and unprecedented times, and recent weeks have been hard on many of us. It has been particularly hard on the communities we serve, who have been disproportionately…
Continue ReadingReport: Demanding the Right to the City and the Right to Housing (R2C/R2H): Best Practices for Supporting Community Organizing
Download the Report The goal of this report was to examine how to promote the Right to the City (R2C) and the Rightto Housing (R2H) through strategic legal and organizing…
Continue ReadingJoint Statement from PCLS Board and Staff Regarding Reconsideration Decision
On Friday, December 13th, Parkdale Community Legal Services (PCLS) received a decision from the Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) Clinic Committee reconsidering its earlier decision on funding for PCLS. The reconsideration…
Continue ReadingOntario government fails to restore legal aid funding and weakens access to justice in proposed legislation
On December 9, 2019, the government introduced the Smarter and Stronger Justice Act (Bill 161) that eliminates legislative protections and governmental obligation to provide legal aid services and access to…
Continue ReadingLegal Aid is under attack – but PCLS is fighting back!
A lot has happened since the government slashed funding by over 30% last April to legal aid services for low income communities. In June, Parkdale Community Legal Services’ (PCLS)’ funding…
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