Discrimination
Discrimination is treatment that burdens or disadvantages someone with no reasonable justification. This involves unfair or different treatment for reasons unrelated to academic or employment performance.
Examples of discrimination include:
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Refusing to allow a student to reschedule an exam because the date conflicts with their religious high holy day.
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Denying appropriate accommodations to persons with a medically certified disability
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Evaluating students negatively because the instructor disapproves of their political beliefs or cultural perspectives
Harassment
Harassment is comment or behaviour that is unwelcome or that has a negative impact on the person. Harassment can be either a single, serious incident or a pattern of related, repeated incidents.
Examples of harassment include:
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Making racist, sexist, or homophobic jokes or remarks
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Making repeated advances to a person after that person has indicated a lack of interest (verbally, by email, texting or through other forms of social media)
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Mocking a person's accent, culture or religion
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Consistently mis-gendering someone (like a student) or intentionally using the wrong pronoun
In Canada, no one has to tolerate any form of unwelcome or uninvited sexual advances.