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15 TALL Newsl. 1 (1995-1996)

handle is hein.journals/tallquart15 and id is 1 raw text is: V 5 1ober 1995 TALL NEWSLETTER TORNT ASSCATINO LAW IRRE TALL Executive 1995-1996 Past President: Andrea Cambridge Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt 416-862-6785 President: Sharon Day-Feldman County of York Law Association 416-327-6013 Vice President: Ines Freeman Miller Thomson 416-595-8537 Secretary: Karen Cohen Shibley, Righton 416-214-5294 Treasurer Dianne Haist Goodman Phillips & Vineberg 416-979-2211 ext. 4077 Director: Ian Colvin Fraser & Beatty 416-862-3489 Editorial Board Editor: Diane Ferns Book Review Editor: Katie Thomas Business Manager. Paula Schwindt Conference and Workshop Editor: Maria Cece Features Editor: Connie Crosby IRQs Editors: Esther Wan, Jeanette Bosschart Profiles Editor: Jane Freeman In This Issue Feature Article: Employment Equity Bibliography 1 AALL Third Northeast Regional Conference 15 Annual Report of the Membership Secretary 17 Book Reviews 19 Conferences & Workshops 22 Conversation with CCH Canadian 12 Editor's Notes 2 Education Committee 14 Information Technology Committee 23 IRQs 7 Library Profile: Price Waterhouse National Tax Information Centre 18 Membership News 3 Publishers' Liaison Committee 9 President's Message 3 A Selected Annotated Bibliography on Employment Equity in Canada and in the Province of Ontario Maura Matesic Maura Matesic is a recent graduate of the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto. She currently works as a researcher in the GTA Sales and Marketing Department of Ernst & Young, as well as in The Globe and Mail Library. Starting in October, she will also be working in the Unionville Public Library on Sundays. The following article is current to August 1995. The developing structure of Canadian society is constructed around the continuing debate of social justice, social and individual rights, and the role of good government. Documenting the larger movement towards a more equal Canadian society, the literature of employment equity and affirmative action programmes presents a compilation of diverse source material. Employment equity in Canada, as a bibliographic topic, is one which covers a wide range of materials including government reports, task force publications, interest group submissions, legal interpretations, journalistic commentaries, and instructive texts. For the purposes of this study, formal legislation has been omitted in the interest of focusing upon the breadth and diversity of the key prescriptive and analytical texts which formulate and support the mainstream debate concerning employment equity in Canada. The selection of materials illustrates the domain of discourse on the topic of employment equity and documents the historic struggle towards equality in Canada. Government sponsored publications relating to employment equity are perhaps the greatest strength of Canadian source material in this regard. For federal jurisdiction, The Report of the Commission on Equality in Employmentl, by Rosalie Abella (now a justice of the Ontario Court of Appeal), is one of the earliest and most important documents. This work formally identifies the systemic discrimination faced by women, aboriginals, persons with disabilities, and members of visible minority groups in Canada. Recognizing that equality is a process-a process of constant and flexible examination, of vigilant (Continued on page 4) Vol. 15, no. 1

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