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In this Issue
*AODA Alliance Submits a Supplemental Brief to the Pinto Human Rights Code Review
*Burlington City Council Approves Accessibility Design Standards
*Playground Designed for Disabled Users
*Taxi of Tomorrow Faces Lawsuits of the Day After
*For Those with Intellectual Disabilities, a Decades-Long Wait for a Home and Care
*Minister of National Defence Announces Enhancements to Benefits Offered to our Ill and Injured
*Disabled Feds Want to be Involved in Making IT More Accessible
*City Transit Expected to be Totally Accessible by Year-End
*Mobile Lorm Glove Helps Deaf-Blind People Text Message
*Making Businesses Accessible to All has its Obstacles
*Who Will Give Devin a Chance?
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ARTICLES:
AODA Alliance Submits a Supplemental Brief to the Pinto Human Rights Code Review
AODA Alliance Also Responds to Criticisms of Us Levelled by the Human Rights Legal Support Centre
Our April 11, 2012 letter explains why we question this conduct by a human rights agency, whose mandate comes from the Human Rights Code, who receives its funding from the Ontario Government, and whose website bears the logo of the Government of Ontario. Our main brief explains how the Centre has in some ways gone beyond the role of explaining to the public its work under the new human rights system. It has in effect stepped into the shoes of those private individuals who successfully proposed and advocated for Bill 107 back in 2006. This latest development further illustrates that point.
Read more at
http://www.aoda.ca/?p=1772
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Burlington City Council Approves Accessibility Design Standards
The accessibility design standards will ensure all new City of Burlington facilities will be accessible to all and that existing facilities will be retrofitted, renovated or altered over time to comply with the standards according to council’s decision.
Read more at
http://www.coaac.ca/?p=596
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Playground Designed for Disabled Users
The Blanshard Community Centre and its refurbished playground provided the backdrop Thursday for a federal funding announcement aimed at improving accessibility for people with disabilities.
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/?p=2587
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Taxi of Tomorrow Faces Lawsuits of the Day After
The issue at hand applies here, too. The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act is going to require massive changes in making transportation services accessible. This includes public transit and taxis. One in seven people in Ontario has a disability, according to the provincial government, and that number will rise as the population ages.
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/?p=2584
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For Those with Intellectual Disabilities, a Decades-Long Wait for a Home and Care
Maureen Smith’s daughter just moved into a duplex after nearly two decades of waiting. Susan MacIsaac’s son isn’t so lucky. Despite a six-year wait, he was rejected for funding that would see him live in his own home.
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/?p=2582
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Minister of National Defence Announces Enhancements to Benefits Offered to our Ill and Injured
The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence, is proud to announce enhancements to the minimum benefits paid under the Canadian Forces (CF) Long Term Disability (LTD) program to medically released CF personnel. With an investment of nearly $113 million, these enhancements are now in line with the Earning Loss Benefits (ELB) offered by Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) to disabled veterans.
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/?p=2580
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Disabled Feds Want to be Involved in Making IT More Accessible
Federal workers with disabilities should be called on to test government information technology systems before new systems are rolled out and the White House should impose uniform government wide guidelines for accessibility, respondents to an ongoing crowdsourced survey are saying.
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/?p=2576
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City Transit Expected to be Totally Accessible by Year-End
NORTH BAY – Freedom. That’s the word Dale Norton uses to describe the City’s commitment to providing totally accessible public transit by 2013 and the two new state-of-the-art buses about to hit North Bay streets.
Read more at
http://www.aoda.ca/?p=1767
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Mobile Lorm Glove Helps Deaf-Blind People Text Message
“It empowers deaf-blind people to engage with a wider social world and further enhances their independence,” the Mobile Lorm Glove’s developers wrote on their website.
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/?p=2574
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Making Businesses Accessible to All has its Obstacles
Money spent on accessibility is bound to have returns, supporters say. “Any of the businesses that adapt to this quicker there are billions of dollars that are spent by people that fall into that category,” Kiru says. “It’s only going to increase.”
Read more at
http://www.aoda.ca/?p=1765
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Who Will Give Devin a Chance?
Devin Stevenson says he knows autism often holds him back.
He sometimes has trouble focusing. He has a tendency to get overly engrossed in one aspect of a task. And, if you were to explain something to Devin, he might need you to repeat it a second time, though he is quick to point out he’s not being purposefully inattentive.
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynews.ca/?p=2358
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