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Yearly Archives: 2010

Customer Service Standard Not Worth the Paper It’s Printed On!

By Geof Collis
December 14, 2010

City of Kawartha Lakes cowardly hides behind the Provincial Government in its decision not to grant my request in the article
Access Watchdog Blasts City For PDFs of Minutes

Over a 12 business day span I had a one way email correspondence with my City for a simple request of documentation, the first one being part of the above article. Everyone was ignored, until the 16 th business day, coincidentally after the Article broke, the Mayor asked Staff to look into it.

Customer Service Standard Not Worth the Paper It’s Printed On!. Read full article.

Disabilities Call for Papers

Posted to site: December 8, 2010

Law Commission of Ontario Releases Six Commissioned Research Papers on the Law as it Affects Persons with Disabilities 

In January 2010, the LCO issued a Call for Research Papers
related to its project on the Law as it Affects Persons with Disabilities. The Call closed on February 12, 2010. Six research papers were completed through
this Call for Papers, as follows:  

Disabilities Call for Papers. Read full article.

Rights and Wrongs

By: Dan Birch
DECEMBER 2010

The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario seems to be a more frequent stop for injured workers with accommodation concerns since changes to the provincial human rights system were adopted two years ago.

“It’s becoming increasingly more common,” notes Ryan Conlin, a partner at SBH Management Lawyers in Toronto.

Rights and Wrongs. Read full article.

Becoming Accessible

Ellie Garlin

Due to improvements made over the last few years, those with disabilities have fewer barriers on campus.

With the province’s Disabilities Act taking full effect in 2012, Laurier is planning to make campus more accommodating

Olivia Nightingale

December 1, 2010 3:32 AM

The Ontario provincial government introduced the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) in 2005, meant to usher in a new era of equality
for those with cognitive and physical disabilities.

Becoming Accessible. Read full article.

Access Watchdog Blasts City For PDFs of Minutes

By LISA GERVAIS, LINDSAY POST REPORTER
December 3, 2010

KAWARTHA LAKES- Accessibility watchdog Geof Collis is after the City of Kawartha Lakes again -this time for meeting minutes that he can read on his Screen Reader.

Collis, in an e-mail to mayor Ric McGee (copied to The Lindsay Post), said “since this has been an issue for me in the past, I’m starting at the top and
working down.

Access Watchdog Blasts City For PDFs of Minutes. Read full article.

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