Legal Resources

Explains discrimination, which is when you’re treated badly or unfairly because of certain parts of your identity. Learn what your human rights and options are if you experience discrimination.

Explains discrimination, which is when you’re treated badly or unfairly because of certain parts of your identity. Learn to identify discrimination, and find out what steps to take if you’re discriminated against.

Explains the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (the Charter) and its importance in the daily lives of Canadians.

Main page with links to information and guides about discrimination. Topics include discrimination in accessing a service, in the workplace, in housing, in mental health, in accessing health care, and systemic discrimination. Learn how to make a human rights complaint, and your rights if you’re Indigenous and experience discrimination.

Explains what representation agreements are and what to include in them.

This tool helps you figure out who can help you with your human rights issue. You can get legal help making a human rights complaint, file or check on the status of your human rights complaint, explore human rights issues in BC, and better understand your human rights.

This resource provides basic information about your rights to access access general information that public bodies hold. It covers what to consider as you plan your general request strategy, and what to do before, during, and after your file to receive general information from a federal or provincial public body.

This resource provides basic information about your rights to access the personal information public and private bodies hold about you. It includes what to do before, during, and after you file to receive your personal information.

This resource explains what non-profits must do to create or maintain a privacy policy for the collection, use, disclosure, and retention of personal information. Topics covered include training, how to comply with Canadian Anti Spam Law (CASL), and more.

This resource includes province-specific legal resources. For BC this includes information about your rights if you’re arrested or detained, how to change your gender marker, the BC Human Rights Code, and how to change your name.