Tanya Vanderklaauw v. Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Ken Boyd, 2017 HRTO 1039

HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL OF ONTARIO

B E T W E E N:

Tanya Vanderklaauw

Applicant

-and-

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Ken Boyd

Respondents

DECISION

Adjudicator: Eban Bayefsky Date: August 11, 2017 Citation: 2017 HRTO 1039 Indexed as: Vanderklaauw v. Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

1The applicant filed an Application under the Human Rights Code, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.19, as amended (the “Code”), on January 2, 2013.

2On March 5, 2013, this Tribunal deferred the Application pending the completion of related grievance proceedings. The Tribunal continued to defer the Application over the next few years, based on the applicant’s advice that the grievances remained in progress.

3On May 8, 2017, the Registrar directed the applicant to advise within 30 days whether the grievances were still ongoing, failing which the Tribunal might dismiss the Application as abandoned.

4On July 25, 2017, the Tribunal reminded the applicant to provide the required information by August 2, 2017, failing which the Application might be dismissed as abandoned.

5The Registrar’s May 8, 2017 letter was sent by regular mail to the address provided by the applicant, and again as an attachment to the Tribunal’s July 25, 2017 letter, which was sent by email to the email address provided by the applicant.

6The applicant has not responded to either the letter or email and the time to do so has now passed.

order

7In the circumstances, the applicant is deemed to have abandoned the Application and the Application is dismissed.