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 | Oct 1, 2016 | Accessible Documents, All, Barriers, Customer Service, Hearing Disabilities, Intellectual Disabilities, Mental Health Disabilities, Physical Disabilities, Transportation, Visual Disabilities
FIJI: The Ministry of Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation together with Fiji Bus Operators Association have launched an initiative to promote priority seating for Expectant mothers, senior citizens and people with disabilities. A total of 55 bus companies will be...
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 | 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 | 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 | Nov 14, 2013 | All, Disability Statistics, Media Coverage, Mental Health Disabilities
The Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) in partnership with the Mood Disorder Society of Canada (MDSC) is pleased to present a series of three free broadcasts in the Stop the Stigma mental health webcast series. These webcasts focus on the stigma of mental illness...
