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A Spanish-speaking migrant worker with unpaid overtime or threats related to their closed work permit should be referred here.
What is the Centre for Spanish-Speaking Peoples (CSSP)?
This clinic advocates for the rights of young trans-people in conflict with their family.
What is Justice for Children and Youth (JFCY)?
This clinic does not provide representation on general Landlord and Tenant Board matters.
What is the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO)?
This clinic is the one to call if you need a French-speaking lawyer in criminal law.
What is the Centre Francophone de Justice et de Transition (CFGT)?
This clinic's advocacy contributed to the federal government's declaration of housing as a human right.
What is the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO)?
This clinic is the best referral for a Cantonese-speaking client with a complex refugee claim or a hoarding issue complicating a landlord-tenant dispute.
What is the Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic (CSALC)?
This clinic advocates for the implementation of Heat Stress Standards in workplaces.
What is the Workers' Health and Safety Legal Clinic (WHSLC)?
This clinic won a Federal Court of Appeal case forcing Air Canada to provide accessible air travel, including changing planes as an accommodation.
What is ARCH Disability Law Centre?
A legal issue involving the disclosure of or discrimination based on a person's HIV-positive status should go to this clinic.
What is the HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario (HALCO)?
This clinic spurred the implementation of prosecutorial guidelines for people living with HIV.
What is the HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario (HALCO)?
The migrant worker who got hurt on the job can get help from this clinic.
What is IAVGO?
This clinic played a key role in the advocacy that led to a formal government apology for the Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act.
What is the Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic (CSALC)?
This clinic successfully argued that the Safe Streets Act violates the Charter freedoms of unhoused young people living in poverty.
What is Justice for Children and Youth (JFCY)?
A person facing a racist Child Protection investigation should not be referred to this clinic.
What is the Black Legal Action Centre (BLAC)?
Contact this clinic for updates on systemic policy changes, like ODSP's "Guide Dog Policy".
What is the Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC)?
If a new asphalt plant is set to open in your neighborhood, this is the clinic to call for help navigating the environmental approval process.
What is the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA)?
This clinic created Canada's primary Forced Marriage toolkit for service providers.
What is the South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario (SALCO)?
This clinic successfully argued on behalf of non-unionized workers who were discriminated against for filing a WSIB claim.
What is the Workers' Health & Safety Legal Clinic (WHSLC)?
This clinic provides direct services to persons with disabilities, but will not help family members seek guardianship over them.
What is ARCH Disability Law Centre?
This clinic's successful WSIAT cases led to a 2025 policy change granting retroactive benefits to injured migrant farm workers dating back to 2007.
What is IAVGO?
This "self-help centre" provides summary advice to small landlords, including those who are "head tenants" not living in the unit.
What is the Landlord's Self-Help Centre (LSHC)?
This clinic's advocacy was crucial in ensuring the Canada Disability Benefit would not be clawed back from social assistance.
What is the Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC)?
This clinic's work established that Impact of Race and Culture Assessments (IRCAs) are relevant evidence at sentencing for racialized offenders
What is the Black Legal Action Centre (BLAC)?
This clinic can help if you've faced discrimination based on your Indigenous identity or spiritual practices.
What is Aboriginal Legal Services (ALS)?
This clinic was instrumental in securing a law to ban strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs).
What is the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA)?