Posted: Apr 01, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: April 1
Christine Shupe filed a complaint with Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission alleging sexual harassment at her former workplace.(Robert Short/CBC)
A Halifax woman s sexual harassment complaint against her former employer has been thrown out after the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission made a mistake on the paperwork.
Christine Shupe contacted the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission in 2018 saying she d been sexually harassed by her former employer, Wyatt Redmond, at the recycling depot she worked at.
Staff at the commission investigated the complaint over three years, and the case was finally referred to a board of inquiry the final stage in the complaint process, which involves a trial-like public hearing with witnesses and cross-examinations.
Posted: Mar 16, 2021 5:00 AM AT | Last Updated: March 16
Access Consciousness is a practice whose proponents say it helps clear energies from the body through physical touch. Taron, a Nova Scotia resident who uses the pronoun they, said a social worker who used the practice crossed the boundaries between client and counsellor. The Nova Scotia College of Social Workers agreed and revoked the counsellor s registration.(CBC)
Taron expected the counsellor would offer help to recover from complex post-traumatic stress disorder.
Instead, more than four years after the first therapy session in a Halifax clinic, the Nova Scotian said their life was spiralling through sleeplessness, thoughts of suicide and a struggle with the toll it was all taking on Taron s marriage.