News in Consumer Law
January 17: Register today for CLEONet's Private Career Colleges Act webinar
Date January 17, 2011
Time 12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Where online
This webinar gives community workers information on how students and their advocates can protect themselves under the recently revised Private Career Colleges Act.
Spammers face $10 million fine under Canada's new law
Businesses that send unsolicited e-mails or other digital messages could face fines as high as $10 million when Canada's new anti-spam law starts being enforced later this year.
Agency charged woman $10,000 for tax claim she could have filed for free
A Hamilton woman agreed to give National Benefit Authority a 25 per cent share, plus HST, of her retroactive disability tax credits, not realizing it was a service H&R Block offers for just $27.
Winter 2010 Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario newsletter now available
Topics in The Tenant Advocate include the ruling in ACTO appeal on human rights in municipal planning, provincial long-term affordable housing strategy, Right to Housing charter challenge, and updates on ACTO litigation, Bill 106, and sub-metering.
January 17, 2011: CLEONet's Private Career Colleges Act webinar
Date January 17, 2011
Time 12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Where online
This webinar looks at the ways students and their advocates can protect themselves under the recently revised Private Career Colleges Act.
Community Advocacy & Legal Centre Fall 2010 newsletter now available
Topics in Bafflegab include responsibility for bedbugs in rental units, update on energy poverty, the Registered Disability Savings Plan, and National Housing Strategy Day activities.
New NDP ad campaign rolling out on home heating tax relief
Articles in the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Sun discuss the new NDP ad campaign calling for the federal government to remove the federal sales tax from home heating fuels.
October 18: Register now for Monday's Motor Vehicle Dealers Act webinar
Date October 18, 2010
Time 12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Where online
This webinar for community workers and advocates gives an overview of recently strengthened consumer protections related to new and used motor vehicle sales and leases in Ontario.
November 10: LIEN regional workshop in Kingston
Date November 10, 2010
Time 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Where 1200 Princess Street, Sisters of Providence Motherhouse, Kingston
This workshop, presented by the Low-Income Energy Network, is part of the network's focus on building the capacity of network members and other organizations to become "experts" or "resource people" on low-income energy issues in their communities.
Northwest Community Legal Clinic September 2010 newsletter now available
Topics include Children's Fitness Tax Credit, fairness for the self-employed, Oxycodone, identity theft, collection agencies, and changes to OW & ODSP.
