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Reaction to Rob Ford’s Cancer Proves We Don’t Take Addiction Seriously
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 as Toronto's...
A LETTER TO PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC DISEASE
Author: Dr Rob Laberts, LLC, Internal Medicine & Pediatrics Dear Patients: You have it very hard, much harder than most people understand. Having sat for 16 years listening to the stories, seeing the tiredness in your eyes, hearing you try to describe the...
Disabled woman wins discriminatory pay case at Ontario Human Rights Tribunal
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,...
Governments of Canada and Northwest Territories sign agreement to help Northwest Territories residents with disabilities get jobs
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...
Student Develops Braille Printer with Legos
SANTA CLARA: Shubham Banerjee, a San Francisco Bay Area seventh grade student, has developed BRAIGO, a Braille printer using Lego Mindstorms EV3, which slashes the price of a printer from more than $2000 to $350, thereby giving a more cost-effective printer. According...
Ontario must enforce equality rules for disabled: Editorial
Imagine a blind person with a guide dog is turned away from a store or restaurant. Not only is that refusal a sign of bad judgment, it’s also a breach of Ontario’s accessibility law. Unfortunately, the 2005 legislation that promised equal access for the disabled...