New carpet aids people with low vision
By Teresa Pitman
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
As you walk in through the main door of the University library, you may notice a section of carpet that forms a black line leading away and then turning
left. Touch it, and you’ll find that black line is also a different texture than the rest of the carpet. Follow it, and you’ll end up at the newly-renamed
Library Accessibility Services office.
Date: September 28, 2010
By Douglas Bentley
To Whom it May Concern
As a SHHC customer, and wheelchair user for 34 years, I have never had such problems with w/c maintenance than I have had with Shoppers Home Health Care. I will never understand why this company was given the – Central Equipment Pool Contract – based the level of service (or the lack of same) that I have experienced, and have heard about.
By Karen Sinclair, The Ottawa Citizen September 19, 2010
John Richard “Rick” Sinclair was born in Richmond Hill on Nov. 29, 1947 and died June 30 in Ottawa, age 62.
‘Karen puts HP sauce on everything, even ice cream!” This scurrilous tale was told by my husband Rick to my stepsons, Mark and James, who were nine and seven years old, respectively, when they came into my life.
Posted to site September 10, 2010
NOTICE:
The Final Proposed Accessible Built Environment Standard, as part of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005, has now been posted on the Ministry of Community and Social Services’ website.
The final proposed standard was developed by an external Accessible Built Environment Standards Development Committee (ABE-SDC). This external committee included representatives from the disability community as well as the public and private sectors.
Autistic child denied transportation from clinic to school
By Don Butler, The Ottawa Citizen August 26, 2010
OTTAWA-The Ottawa Catholic School Board discriminated against a five-year-old autistic boy when it denied him transportation from a private clinic to his
school, says the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.
In a decision released Thursday, the tribunal ordered the board to pay the boy, referred to only as M.O., $10,000 in compensation as well as travel expenses estimated at up to $3,000.
