Greg Thomson, AODA Alliance Update, November 29, 2018 On Tuesday, November 27, 2018, Canada’s House of Commons unanimously voted on Third Reading to pass Bill C-81, the proposed Accessible Canada Act. A number of amendments were made to the bill while it was being debated at the House of Commons’ Standing Committee that held public…
Statistics Canada, The Daily, November 28, 2018 An estimated one in five Canadians (or 6.2 million) aged 15 years and over had one or more disabilities that limited them in their daily activities, according to new findings from the 2017 Canadian Survey on Disability (CSD). For many of these Canadians, challenges and obstacles in their…
Taylor Simmons, CBC News, November 13, 2018 Committees working on provincial accessibility standards say their work’s been paused for too long. Accessibility advocates say the government hasn’t put several Standards Development Committees (SDCs), special groups looking at how to get rid of accessibility barriers in the province, back to work almost five months after the spring…
Lindsay McKenzie, Inside Higher Ed, November 6, 2018 Hundreds of colleges and universities across the country are currently under investigation by the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights for failing to make their websites accessible to people with disabilities. Universities that receive federal financial aid are required by law to make reasonable accommodations to ensure…
Adrian Ghobrial, CityNews Toronto, November 2, 2018 Two visually-impaired Toronto women will have their complaint investigated by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal more than three years after they were removed from a flight at Pearson airport because of their service dogs. The pilot told Peel police to remove the passengers as they weren’t complying with…
Paula Duhatschek, CBC News, November 1, 2018 An Ontario dad is calling on the government to be honest with parents after he says he was told this week that a provincial program for children with disabilities had run out of cash for the year. In July, Moffatt found out his son was eligible – though…
