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...
by Trish Robichaud | May 1, 2014 | All, Disability Statistics, Employment
Postal worker Michele McSweeney doesn’t know what she thinks was worse — her treatment by Canada Post and workers’ compensation officials in 2005 when she was injured on the job in a hit-and-run truck accident, or her doctor’s missed diagnosis of her crushed wrist....
by Trish Robichaud | Apr 25, 2014 | All, Employment, Mental Health Disabilities
This month media campaigns are encouraging people to talk about mental illness. This raises the question about whether employees should talk to their employer about mental illness or remain silent for fear of losing their jobs. According to the Ontario Human Rights...
by Trish Robichaud | Apr 21, 2014 | Accommodations, All, Employment
TORONTO – John Huynh doesn’t mind being the poster boy for disabled people fighting discrimination in the workplace — if it helps eliminate the problem. The 35-year-old marketing analyst has neurofibromatosis type 1, which causes him to walk with a limp, changes...
