by Trish Robichaud | Jun 21, 2017 | All, Canadians with Disabilities Act
TORONTO — Public consultations on Canada’s first national law for disabled people have identified high unemployment rates, inaccessible buildings and barriers in transportation as some of the key issues that need to be addressed. The priorities were laid out in...
by Trish Robichaud | Jun 20, 2017 | All, Funding Announcements, Press Release
GATINEAU, QC, May 31, 2017 /CNW/ – During National AccessAbility Week, as we celebrate, highlight and promote inclusion and accessibility across Canada, we are especially aware of how greatly society benefits when all Canadians can participate equally in their...
by Trish Robichaud | Jun 19, 2017 | All, Mental Health Disabilities
By: Lt. Col. Justin Constantine It doesn’t take long for Americans to turn a mental health condition into a punchline. If we keep our desks too neat, we joke that we have obsessive-compulsive disorder. If we space out during a meeting, we lament that we have attention...
by Trish Robichaud | Jun 18, 2017 | All, Attitudinal Barriers, Invisible Disabilities
Hamilton Spectator, By Sajid Rahman When we think of disability, we are often quick to associate this term to someone in a wheelchair, a person who has paraplegia or a person who is blind or deaf. We imagine someone using a cane, a service animal or hearing aid. But a...
by Trish Robichaud | Jun 17, 2017 | Accessible Employment, All
Employees with disabilities are protected from discrimination and harassment in Ontario. Despite this protection they are forced to fight for accommodations of their disabilities that are rightfully theirs, and are frequently made to feel like a nuisance for doing so....
