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…
Sally Abrahams and Lee Kumutat, BBC Radio 4, Money Box, May 6, 2018 HSBC, Metro Bank and Halifax have all admitted to failings after redesigning websites that made it hard for their blind or visually impaired customers to access full services online. In a statement, HSBC told Money Box it has just finished upgrading the…
Desmond Brown, Toronto CBC News, February 6, 2018 An Uber Assist driver who refused to pick up a blind Paralympian last year because of her service dog has been fined $250. Victoria Nolan, who captured bronze at the 2016 Rio Games in four-mixed rowing, had finished training at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre when…
By Monique Scotti, National Online Journalist, Global News, February 5, 2018 The federal Conservatives have tabled a bill in the House of Commons that they say will help get more Canadians with disabilities into the workforce, arguing that right now, it can be more affordable for them to stay out of it. The private member’s…
AODA Alliance, toronto, October 29, 2017 The AODA Alliance today makes public a striking 12-minute video (and a more detailed 30-minute version) revealing significant disability accessibility barriers in a new public building in the heart of downtown Toronto, built in part with public money. This video documents accessibility problems at the new Ryerson University Student…
Alicia Ann Pereira, Ontario Human Rights Commission, October 12, 2017 Today, the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) released a new policy statement explaining the purpose and importance of the duty to accommodate under the Ontario Human Rights Code. Employers and unions, housing providers and service providers have a legal duty to accommodate the Code-related needs…
Rich Donovan, Special to the Globe and Mail, September 29, 2017 Canadian business has struggled since 1989 to hire people with disabilities in any material numbers. This is not a uniquely Canadian phenomenon. The experience has been repeated globally by millions of companies. Stats show that the 18.7 per cent of the population that self-declares…
Natalie Nanowski, CBC News, September 20, 2017 TTC hears concerns about long waits and inaccessible stations at annual meeting. The TTC’s annual accessibility meeting drew about 300 people to the Beanfield Centre at Exhibition Place. It’s intended to highlight any concerns or questions people have about the accessibility of the TTC or Wheel-Trans. The TTC…
LUCAS OLENIUK, Toronto Star Editorial, August 7, 2017 Disability advocate David Lepofsky has worked tirelessly since the McGuinty Liberals passed the landmark Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act in 2005, holding the government to account as it moves toward its goal of a fully accessible Ontario by 2025. David Lepofsky just wants to make sure…
Kevin Rollason, Winnipeg Free Press, June 8, 2017 David Lepofsky is in Winnipeg this week to speak during Manitoba Access Awareness Week. He spoke on Wednesday at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights about accessibility rights legislation. The world has been designed as if the only people living in it successfully are people without disabilities….
