AuthorRadhika Sharma

How Ontario’s new legal aid bill will impact Parkdale  Last June, the province of Ontario implemented its funding cuts to Legal Aid Ontario (LAO), impacting different sectors of the legal community. LAO provides funding to over 73 community legal clinics; one of them being Parkdale Community Legal Services (PCLS). Ontario cut LAO’s budget by $133 million in 2019 and had planned to further...

This June, the Ontario government implemented its funding cuts to legal aid, impacting several sectors of the legal community. Groups affected ranged from individuals with precarious immigration status, to vulnerable members of communities, to clinics who provide legal services or necessities such as food and shelter to low-income neighbourhoods. This piece discusses the severe impacts of the...