harassment

This means "engaging in a course of comments or actions that are known, or ought reasonably to be known, to be unwelcome. It can involve words or actions that are known or should be known to be offensive, embarrassing, humiliating, demeaning or unwelcome."

Learn more about the Ontario Human Rights Code's prohibited/protected grounds (i.e. the grounds upon which it is illegal to harass someone).

Source: Ontario Human Rights Commission, Teaching Human Rights in Ontario - A Guide for Ontario Schools, 2013, Appendix I - Glossary of Human Rights Terms.