Jean Marentette

The applicant alleged discrimination on the basis of disability with respect to educational services.

In this interim decision, the Tribunal addressed multiple requests for orders during proceedings.

The Tribunal declined to strike a disputed document as premature, ordered the respondent to provide particulars about it, and ordered the production of the applicant's Accessibility Services file.

The Tribunal also permitted the respondent to file late documents, directed the applicant to provide a full summary of its expert's proposed evidence, and excused the College President from attending the initially scheduled hearing dates.

The applicant, an Early Childhood Education student, alleged discrimination and harassment on the basis of disability after she fell during a practicum placement and was subsequently asked for medical documentation.

She further alleged her practicum was terminated due to her disability.

The Tribunal found that the respondents' requests for medical information were good faith attempts to accommodate her needs, not harassment.

The Tribunal also accepted the respondents' evidence that the practicum was terminated because the applicant made inappropriate, sexualized comments to children, not because of her disability.

The application was dismissed.

The appellant husband appealed a trial decision finding that the home he and his wife lived in during their marriage was not a matrimonial home under the Family Law Act.

The home was owned by a family trust settled by the wife's mother, in which the wife had a contingent beneficial interest and acted as a co-trustee.

The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal, holding that the wife's contingent beneficial interest in the trust as a whole did not give her a specific property interest in the home itself.

Furthermore, her role as a trustee could not be conflated with her beneficial interest to create a property interest under section 18(1) of the Act.