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A Sarnia, Ontario, woman and her disabled son are appealing to the province’s Human Rights Tribunal to force a local agency to pay him more than the 46 cents [$0.35 USD] an hour he’s been earning for his work. Erla McCormick says that rate—23 times lower than Ontario’s minimum wage of $10.79 an hour—is what her son Kris has earned at a workshop for adults with intellectual disabilities over the past ten years.

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