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Discover a curated collection of legal guides, research publications, toolkits, and webinars developed to support Ontario’s Black communities. These resources are designed to inform, educate, and equip individuals and organizations in the fight against anti-Black racism.
Complaints Policy
Any member of the public may file a complaint. This Policy outlines your rights and responsibilities and our commitment to dealing with all complaints fairly, respectfully, and timely.
Consolidated Amended By-Law 2023-1
The bylaws set out the rules governing the organisation’s operations and reflect our commitment to transparency, accountability, and good governance.
Complaint Form
Use this form to submit a complaint or concern about our services or operations. All submissions are reviewed in accordance with our policies and commitment to accountability.
General Brochure
Black Legal Action Centre brochure provides general information about who we are, what we do, and how people can reach us. You can download, print, and share it.
Our Resources
BLAC Resources
Discover a curated collection of legal guides, research publications, toolkits, and webinars developed to support Ontario’s Black communities. These resources are designed to inform, educate, and equip individuals and organizations in the fight against anti-Black racism.
Know Your Rights: A Legal Toolkit for Protesters
For Black people, asserting our rights can come with significant risk. This toolkit provides a summary of your constitutionally protected rights to protest peacefully.
This Resource Guide for Black Families in Ontario provides a snapshot of organizations across Ontario that provide culturally responsive services to Black youth and families.
This study finds that almost 270 human rights applications were filed against police services in Ontario between 2017 and 2020 but only one (1) application resulted in a public decision in favour of the applicant. Also, police services were almost always represented by a lawyer or paralegal while applicants were mostly self-represented.
How can anti-Black racism in policing be so rampant but findings against individual officers be so rare?
Community Resources
Empowering Communities
Access helpful tools, information, and external services designed to support Black individuals and communities across Ontario. These resources connect you with programs, supports, and advocacy initiatives beyond legal services. Explore what’s available to help you navigate challenges and build resilience.
The Engaged Parent: Navigating the School System for Black Student Success
Colour of Poverty Website
Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change (COP-COC) is a network across Ontario working to build concrete strategies, tools, initiatives and community-based capacity through which individuals, groups and organisations (especially those reflective of the affected racialized communities – both Indigenous Peoples and peoples of colour) can begin to develop coherent shared action plans, including creating effective coordinated strategies for collaborating with mainstream policy analysts and institutions, anti-poverty and social justice advocacy groups, governments, funders and the media so as to best work together to address and redress this disturbing and growing structural or systemic ethno-racial inequality.
Law School Legal Clinics across Ontario
Legal Aid Ontario
Law Society of Ontario
Human Rights in Ontario
The Human Rights system in Ontario is made up of three separate agencies: