Supanova, the legal clinic who specializes in these cases has advised me to file... They know the Human Rights code and I can only assume that since they are lawyers they don't encourage frivolous cases. In Canada we are not litigious and frivolous law suits are frowned upon. These people provide a free service and have nothing to gain (or lose) by advising me.

The agency has a what's called a Duty to Accommodate, and is obligated to do so or prove that it couldn't accommodate due to the fact that it would cause them undo hardship to do so. I don't think they'll be able to do that because it wouldn't have caused them any hardship at all. In fact, it would have been beneficial to them.

In fact, not having me there caused them more hardship as they had to replace me with someone who knows nothing about horses and actually put one horse at risk feeding dry/unsoaked beet pulp, and who was afraid of horses.

They also couldn't find anyone who wanted to work the Friday shift I wanted to keep and had trouble filling it for some weeks after. They also had trouble finding someone to cover off shifts for people on holidays (which I'd offered to do).

As for the agency... It has many other problems because of this manager and they've already dragged their own name through the mud and were at risk of losing their accreditation (if they haven't already) because of blatant disregard for the rules.

Also, this particular manager has no interest in making therapy accessible to children with mental health issues/behaviour or children who are poor. She is only interested in catering to developmentally delayed children of wealthy parents and much of the fundraising subsidizes lessons for people who can easily afford to pay. I asked (and so did others) about making the program accessible to children who are marginalized and she had no interest.

So the only people who could be affected, won't because they can afford to pay anyway and are taking subsidies from charity given by people who have much less than they do. All this manager cares about is money.

The point is I won't be able to damage the agency more than it has damaged itself.

Also, I was a paid staff member, not a volunteer, although I regularly added a minimum of 6 hours of volunteer time per week to my shifts.

Not all Non Profits are good. All that non profit means is that you don't make a profit. It doesn't automatically mean it's a nicey nicey touchy feely organization. I wish that it had turned out to be the case and in fact was very surprised to find out that it didn't.