Vancouver cafe pays $12K for denying service to blind woman
B.C. Human Rights Tribunal awards blind woman with guide dog awarded $12,000 for restaurant service refusal, offered further case due to respondents hearing behaviour
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B.C. Human Rights Tribunal awards blind woman with guide dog awarded $12,000 for restaurant service refusal, offered further case due to respondents hearing behaviour
B.C. Human Rights Tribunal awards blind woman with guide dog awarded $12,000 for restaurant service refusal, offered further case due to respondents hearing behaviour
Georgia Pike, a 28-year-old Victoria, B.C. woman who uses a guide dog to navigate, says she and her father were refused service by Ooh La La Cafe because they were accompanied at the time by her guide dog, Grainger.
The owner of a B.C. café has been ordered to pay a woman, who is legally blind, $12,000 in compensation for discrimination after she was refused service because she had a guide dog.