Important events that impact people with disabilities in the news
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…
Greg Thomson, AODA Alliance, October 31, 2018 A major effort has just been unveiled by Canada’s disability community to get the Federal Government to amend Bill C-81, the Federal Government’s proposed Accessible Canada Act, to transform it into a strong and effective bill. Thirty-four disability organizations in Canada have united to jointly send the Federal…
Matt Vis, TBNewsWatch.com, October 31, 2018 Former Ontario lieutenant governer David Onley, who is conducting a legislative review of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, held a town hall session in Thunder Bay on Tuesday, October 30, 2018. The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, passed in 2005, gave the province 20 years to…
wusa9 TV News, October 12, 2018 Advocates argue innovation is ignoring disabled Americans, denying their right to access the Internet, and leaving millions of people lost in the digital space. Eric Bridges, ACB Executive Director, is featured in this news video. It is reported that more than 800 accessibility lawsuits were launched in 2017, and…
By Ana, Agiledrop, September 24, 2018 AgileDrop is highlighting active Drupal community members through a series of interviews. Learn who are the people behind Drupal projects. This week we talked with Mike Gifford. Read about what his company is striving to achieve, where he thinks has been a lot of movement in the last 2…
CBC News, September 21, 2018 Nova Scotia has announced the next steps to reach its goal of making the province more accessible for those with disabilities by 2030. Justice Minister Mark Furey has released an implementation strategy for the province’s Accessibility Act, passed in April 2017. When the new law was passed in 2017, Nova…
Alexandra Elves, The Charlatan, Carleton’s independent newspaper, September 20, 2018 The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) recently released a new policy on accessible education for students with disabilities, which says students with disabilities continue to face barriers in all levels of education. The OHRC also released recommendations on how education providers can best meet legal…
Jennifer Zwicker and Stephanie Dunn, Institute for Research on Public Policy, September 4, 2018 Breaking Down Barriers is the title and galvanizing theme of a June 2018 report from the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology. It recommends urgently needed measures to improve access to underutilized federal disability supports: the disability tax…
By Nick Eagland, Vancouver Sun, July 16, 2018 More than 600,000 people in B.C. have disabilities. Many of them encounter barriers in society that keep them from fully participating. While they are protected by human rights legislation, they must prove on a case-by-case basis that their rights have been denied. To address that — and…
By Greg Thomson, Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance, July 13, 2018 Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s first Throne Speech, read at Queen’s Park on July 12, said nothing about taking new action to ensure that Ontario becomes accessible to 1.9 million Ontarians with disabilities by 2025, the deadline which all parties set in the…
