Rights Tribunal: Prayer Times and Muslim Couple

rights tribunal: Walid Madkour By Nicholas Keung Immigration reporter Tues., May 2, 2017 The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has awarded 12,000 to a Muslim couple, who claimed their landlord failed to accommodate their prayer times and notify the wife when she was home alone before bringing in prospective new tenants for apartment viewings, according to Toronto Star. The respondent discriminated against the applicants by failing to accommodate their religious practices relating to prayer times by providing advance notice shortly before showing the apartment, tribunal panel vice-chair Jo-Anne Pickel wrote in a recent 38-page decision. Being different is nothing to be ashamed of, he says. He also failed to accommodate their religious practices by refusing to remove his shoes when entering their apartment and especially their prayer space. The decision is believed to be the first of its kind from the tribunal with respect to discrimination based on creed and housing. Finally, he also harassed them, at least in part, because of their religiously-based accommodation requests. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.