by Trish Robichaud | Sep 14, 2015 | Accommodations, All, Attitudinal Barriers, Employment, Mental Health Disabilities
The following is a short story taken from IN OUR SHOES: Practical Strategies for AODA Compliance, a catalogue of real-life situations where people with disabilities encounter barriers to inclusion. Those stories go on to also provide real-life solutions & best...
by Trish Robichaud | Aug 18, 2015 | Accommodations, All, Attitudinal Barriers, Education, Employment, Visual Disabilities
The following is a short story taken from IN OUR SHOES: Practical Strategies for AODA Compliance, a catalogue of real-life situations where people with disabilities encounter barriers to inclusion. Those stories go on to also provide real-life solutions & best...
by Trish Robichaud | May 2, 2015 | All, AODA Standards, Education, Employment, Information & Communications, Integrated Standards Regulation, Legislation, Public Spaces, Resources/Tools, Transportation
Use the free resources on the AccessForward website to help train your staff on Ontario’s accessibility laws. Developed by Curriculum Services Canada with support from the Government of Ontario. Trish Robichaud of Changing Paces provided subject matter expertise...
by Trish Robichaud | Sep 26, 2014 | All, AODA Standards, Attitudinal Barriers, Elections, Employment, Media Coverage, Mental Health Disabilities, Systemic Barriers
By Christian Cotroneo, Front Page Editor, Huffington Post Canada The jokes all died a week ago. That’s when Rob Ford ‘s grim medical diagnosis broke — a rare and aggressive form of cancer. Chemotherapy would begin right away; his bid for re-election...
by Trish Robichaud | May 25, 2014 | All, Employment, Human Rights Cases, Intellectual Disabilities
An intellectually disabled St. Catharines woman who was paid just $1.25 an hour as a labourer at a packaging company for 10 years has won her discrimination case before Ontario’s Human Rights Tribunal. The tribunal awarded Terri-Lynn Garrie $142,124 in lost wages,...
by Trish Robichaud | May 23, 2014 | All, Employment, Funding Announcements
YELLOWKNIFE: Canadians with disabilities in the Northwest Territories will be better equipped with the skills and experience they need to get jobs through a new federal-territorial agreement announced today by the Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Employment and...
