Mental Disabilities
Articles on Mental Disabilities, Psychiatric Survivors And Housing
Zoned OUT: Restrictive Municipal Bylaws and Psychiatric Survivor Housing- by Lilith Finkler1 Psychiatric survivors rarely consider land use law a crucial concern. Zoning restrictions, however, such as minimum separation distance requirements, have a disproportionately nega...
- Zoned OUT: Restrictive Municipal Bylaws and Psychiatric Survivor Housing. Continued
- Ontario Municipal Board adjudicators have upheld minimum separation distances in principle 15 but typically exempted individual housing projects16. Adjudicators sometimes concluded that the separation...
- Mad Pride: A Movement for Social Change
- By Lilith Finkler This month, psychiatric consumer / survivors around the world celebrate Mad Pride. What began in downtown Toronto in 1993, is now an international phenomenon. I am proud to belong t...
- Stressing Sacred Spaces
- This article was written in 2002 for a class in Land Use Law. While some of the legal information is now out of date, the information regarding Ontario Muncipal Board decisions is still relevant and o...
- Stressing Sacred Spaces. Part 2
- The Situation in the G.T.A. Currently, the City of Toronto is amalgamating its municipal by-laws with those of the former cities of Etobicoke, York and Toronto. Previously independent entities, thes...
- Stressing Sacred Spaces. Part 3
- Statistics In total, the Quicklaw database noted forty-three cases in which either a municipality or local residents challenged the right of religious organizations to establish, maintain or expand a...
- Stressing Sacred Spaces. Part 4
- Zoning as a Political Tool Zoning, as a planning practice, started in the U.S. in the late 1800's. The beginnings of zoning, or creating separate land use areas, were also attempts to restrict certai...
- Stressing Sacred Spaces. Part 5
- Community Development It is noteworthy that chairs at a number of OMB hearings encouraged opposing parties to speak directly to one another29. Establishing neighbourhood committees composed of repres...
- Stressing Sacred Spaces. Part 6. Appendix A. OMB Cases Regarding Places of Worship 1989-2002
- # 1 2001, December 12 . Markham (Town) Zoning By-law No 193-811 vs. Cornerstone Chinese Alliance Church OMB approved place of worship (Christian church) Issues: too big for neighbourhood parking #...
- Stressing Sacred Spaces. Part 7. Bibliography
- Breyer, Chloe Anne. (1993) Religious Liberty in Law and Practice: Vietnamese Home Temples and the First Amendment. Journal of Church and State. 35:2, 367-401. City of Toronto. (2002) City of Toronto ...
- Representing Mentally Disabled Clients Before Tribunals - A Special Challenge
- By Lilith Finkler Many lawyers encounter clients who are not capable of instructing them because of a disability affecting their memory or thought processes. In previous generations, persons with ...
- Bibliography On Psychiatric Survivors And Housing
- By Lilith Finkler Arrigo, B. (1993) Madness, Language and the Law. Albany, New York: Harrow and Heston. Aubry, T. and Myner, J. (1996) Community Integration and Quality of Life: A Comparison of Per...
- Bibliography On Psychiatric Survivors And Housing. Part 2
- Everett, B. (2000) A Fragile Revolution: consumers and psychiatric survivors confront the power of the mental health system. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier Press. Faulkner, A. and Thomas P. (2002...
- Bibliography On Psychiatric Survivors And Housing. Part 3
- Kaiser, A. (2002) Mental Disability Law. IN Downie, Caulfield Flood (eds) Canadian Health Law and Policy. Second Edition. Markham, Ontario: Butterworths. Kassirer, J. (2005) On the take: how Am...
- Bibliography On Psychiatric Survivors And Housing. Part 4
- Parr, H. (1997) Mental health, public space, and the city: questions of individual and collective access. Environment and Planning D: Space and Society, 15: 435-454. Perkins, R.E. and Repper, J.M. (2...
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