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Why Does Society Hate the Blind so Much?

By Geof Collis
August 24, 2011

Note: By Blind I mean anyone from the Partially Sighted on up to total Blindness and of course I dont mean all of Society.

What prompted my current thoughts is the recent article Some Voters Will Cast Ballot at Home where Elections Ontario is launching a new program allowing Home Visits for electors who meet the necessary criteria.

Where did this come from?


Some Voters Will Cast Ballot at Home

By Tori Stafford The Whig-Standard
Posted August 20, 2011

Voters who’ve had difficulty in the past getting to polling stations or returning offices due to disability will have a new voting option in October.

Elections Ontario will introduced home visits as a voting alternative for the Oct. 6 provincial election. By calling Elections Ontario or its local returning
office, electors who qualify can have a special ballot officer come to their home so they can cast their vote.


Accessible Technology Increasingly a Requirement for Businesses

8/18/2011 6:00:00 AM By: Grant Buckler

Under the Accessibility for Ontarians With Disabilities Act, private businesses operating in the province will have to meet new accessibility standards for customer service by the beginning of next year. Other standards
will follow over the next few years.

But the law, passed in 2005, really just adds specifics to a responsibility businesses across the country have had under human rights legislation for about a quarter century.


Station Schedule Off Track: Patron

By PAUL SCHLIESMANN, THE WHIG-STANDARD
Posted Aug 9, 2011

A Kingston woman is fighting a Via Rail cost-saving plan to close the city’s train station between 5 and 7 a.m. each day.

The plan also means no wheelchair service will be available for three trains.

“My main issue is the other people,” said Hannah Kaufman, a regular commuter on the 5:30 a.m. train to Toronto.


Everyone Deserves Access to Opportunities

An injustice is presently being done.

Further, it violates the Ontario Disabilities Act which assures such challenged individuals to government protection for access to education and employment.

Read more at
http://www.klwatch.ca/?p=495