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Adding the personal touch
We provided education to more than 7,800 people at 90 events across Ontario. Target audiences included private- and public-sector employers, human resources professionals and unions; health, education, police, corrections, housing, newcomer support and other service providers; mediators, regulatory bodies; arbitrators and lawyers.
Topics included: human rights essentials, equity and inclusion in schools, duty to accommodate, gender identity and gender expression, mental health disabilities and addictions, competing rights, the “Canadian experience” barrier, racial profiling, creed rights, systemic discrimination, sexual and gender-based harassment, pregnancy and breastfeeding, human rights and housing, human rights at work and human rights data collection.
We also presented two regional training days at the Regional Municipality of York and the City of Windsor. More than 260 participants from local governments, police services, education institutions and social services agencies attended.
Our Chief Commissioners also played a key role in adding the personal touch, delivering over 40 speeches and presentations across the province. Highlights included:
- Human rights – past, present and future , Coburg Collegiate Institute, Coburg
- Human rights and planning, Ryerson University Planning Forum, Toronto
- Gender identity and policing, Sudbury Police Service, Sudbury
- Human rights is a community concern, Taking it Local, Windsor
Computers plus training equals success
OHRC online training continues to be a hit with learners across Ontario. Here are some highlights for online learning in the past year:
- 235,000 people watched the training video Working Together: the Code and the AODA
- 22,000 people checked out Human Rights 101 (English). The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario regularly orders this course as a remedy in human rights complaints
- 445 individuals/groups took part in the OHRC’s webinars on sexual and gender-based harassment in December 2014
- From July 2014 to March 2015, people downloaded more than 19,000 pdf copies of OHRC policies and guides
- More than 4,600 people checked out Teaching human rights in Ontario: a guide for Ontario schools, and we distributed 2,500 printed copies.
We’re getting more social
The OHRC had an increase of 30% in followers of its Twitter feed. Facebook participation also continues to increase. Other social media platforms are being developed along with a pilot project to improve outreach to Indigenous Peoples in Ontario via Twitter.
2014-2015 Financial summary
2014-2015 FINANCIAL SUMMARY(April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2015) |
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2014-2015 Printed Estimates ($’000) |
Revised Budget March 31, 2015 ($’000) |
Actual Expenditures March 31, 2015 ($’000) |
2014-2015 Year End Variance from Revised Budget ($’000) |
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$ |
% |
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Salaries & Wages |
4,816.0 |
4,173.1 |
4,139.5 |
33.6 |
0.81% |
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Benefits |
356.2 |
509.4 |
514.1 |
-4.7 |
-0.92% |
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Other Direct Operating Expenses (ODOE) |
658.4 |
799.1 |
793.1 |
6.0 |
0.75% |
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Total Expenses |
5,830.6 |
5,481.6 |
5,446.7 |
34.9 |
0.64% |