August 12, 2010
The AODA Alliance has called on the Ontario Government to halt deployment of the Government-financed Presto System Smart Card technology for paying public transit fares in Ontario, until disability barriers that the AODA Alliance identified in this new technology are removed. The August 12, 2010 Toronto Star includes a prominent article reporting on this.
Read more at
https://www.aodaalliance.org/strong-effective-aoda/08122010.asp
Government Does Not Promise the New Leadership or Transformative Change that Charles Beer Recommended
August 11, 2010
SUMMARY
On August 11, 2010, the McGuinty Government released a weak and inadequate final response to the Government-appointed Charles Beer Independent Review of the AODA. (5-page text set out below)
Posted By CECILIA NASMITH, NORTHUMBERLAND TODAY
August 10, 2010
The Town of Cobourg was so pleased with how electronic voting went in the 2006 election that only cellphone and Internet options will be offered this fall’s municipal election.
