Human Rights Inquiry Awards Damages in Discrimination Case A Board of Inquiry under the Ontario Human Rights Code has ruled that a Toronto landlord did discriminate against a black woman of Jamaican origin and has awarded damages to her. Professor Sidney N. Lederman, Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, acted as a Board of Inquiry and conducted hearings into the com- plaint of discrimination by Miss Shirly Gabbidon, a nurse living on Bloor Street, Mississauga, against Mr. S. Golas, 620 Evans Avenue. Professor Lederman concludes that "the evidence demonstrates an irrational bias against the complainant because of her race and colour. The Respondent was not an ill - meaning man. His reluctance to accept the Complainant as a tenant had its genesis, regrettably, in an . aberrant view of an entire class of persons. It was discrimination nevertheless, and it is to be deplored." The Board of Inquiry awards redress in several forms. The landlord is to post the Commission's Declaration of Management Policy in the vestibule of his apartment building. This states a policy of adherence to the provisions of the Human Rights Code. The landlord is to give notice of any vacancy to the Commission prior to any public advertisment. Compensation of $180 is awarded 0 to Miss Gabbidon. Boards of Inquiry are appointed by the Minister of labour in cases where a complaint cannot be conciliated by the Ontario Human Rights Commission. The Board of Inquiry is autonomous and hears sworn testimony in a case from the beginning, without consulting the Com- mission's records. HOW Do YOU COMPARE WITH MR. AVERAGE PHOTOGRAPHER ? Until a survey was made last summer no one knew much about the professional photographer ... the type of pictures he took -- the cameras and other equipment he uses and what his plans were for buying new equipment and purchasing film. The resuits of the survey, explained in a recent issue of the monthly business publication, Canadian Photography, are revealing. The professional photographer is by no means an individual who specializes in just one phase of photography. Seemingly he will handle almost any assignment and is extremely diversified in his field. For example, just every one of the 555 photographers who co - operated in the survey, admitted to doing weddings - which pretty well establishes that the wedding photography market is wide open for anyone with a camera. Almost 85 % of the photographers surveyed used professional laboratory services spending between $500. and $10,000. annually. The type of equipment they favour is interesting too. For instance almost 75 % of the group had bought 35mm SLR(single lens reflex) cameras in the past ten years compared with 13 % who had owned them for more than ten years. A further 15 % said they planned to buy 35 mm cameras. Sales of the 2¼ SLR also showed good recent growth jumping from 3.5 % to 36.8 % in the past ten years. Astronomical quantities of film are consumed each year by professional photographers. Some 85,864 rolls of 35mm and 109,414 rolls of 120 - 220 black and white. Colour film isn't far behind with 95,700 rolls of combined 35mm reversal and colour negative film. That doesn't take into account either the 4¼/ million feet of motion picture film and the almost 500,000 sheets of black and white sheet film that's used annually. It's big business with commercial photographers billing some $21,500 million and portrait photographers account- ing for another $31 million in 1972, according to Dominion Bureau of Statistics figures. WHITBY FREE PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1973, PAGE 3 Council Meeting for Recommendation of Officiai Plan Council had a special meeting Tuesday, August 7th, attended by approximately 60 citizens to receive the Planning Board's recommendation of the Official Plan. After Coun. White's (chairman of the Planning Board) presentation Council received 12 deputations concerning various objections and queries to the official Plan. A motion was moved by Deputy - Reeve Goodwin and Reeve Edwards that council table the Official Plan for 5 weeks for further consideration. This motion was lost on a recorded vote 5 - 4. An amendment to the motion was then moved to have the final submissions before Council by August 15th and to be dealt with by Council on August 23rd at a special meeting. Coun. Emm enquired before the close of the meeting if the secondary plans dealing with special study areas such as Brooklin, Ashburn, Myrtle and various other locations through the town would be started immediately to be finished by the end of the year. Mayor Newman said this would be one of the discussions at the next meeting. _ ~ 4 A~ ~fr;;