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A woman has filed a human rights complaint against a Toronto shelter for female recovering addicts, claiming staff forced her to share a small double room with a pre-operative male-to-female transgender person. The formal complaint against the Jean Tweed Centre, which runs Palmerston House, followed Kristi Hanna’s efforts to inquire about her own legal rights in this unusual situation, only to be told by Ontario’s Human Rights Legal Support Centre that, by describing her new roommate as a “man,” Hanna was the one engaged in illegal discrimination. Hanna, 37, is a former paramedic who has lately worked in the service...

Since her death, he's volunteered at women's center Padilla family photo Linda Padilla was 2 when she was sexually assaulted and beaten to death in August 2003. Life for Dr. Thomas Flowers has changed since he helped stabilize battered 2-year-old Linda Padilla before she eventually died from injuries at the hands of her father. Flowers, an emergency-room doctor at Christus St. John Hospital in Nassau Bay, was set to testify against Frank Padilla in his capital murder trial before the League City man pleaded guilty to capital murder and two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child. Since the...

La Casa warned to shape up BY ALISON SOLTAU Special to The Examiner The City's largest domestic violence agency has been told to send its staff to anti-racism workshops following a five-month probe into allegations of racism and lax sanitary conditions at La Casa de las Madres. The Commission on the Status of Women's investigation was sparked by complaints from some battered Latina women who claimed that the agency's shelter staff were culturally insensitive, failed to provide Spanish translators and served rancid food. La Casa officials have until Jan. 22, 2003, to prepare a progress report for the commission on...