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Everyone Has a Role to Play

BY TODD HUMBER
Nov 21, 2011

Almost a decade ago, I had an informal conversation with a senior HR professional who expressed contempt at performance management models that identified and eliminated the bottom 10 per cent of employees.

“Everyone has to work somewhere,” she said.


NonProfits and The Act

Guiding Principles and Assumptions

For many organizations in the Nonprofit Sector, the requirements of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and the Customer Service Standard reflect the existing organizational values, mission, vision, and service commitment.

The AODA Standards provide the opportunity to encourage innovation and systems transformation. The reduction or elimination of socially and institutionally structured inequalities will extend far beyond enhancing individual and collective well being.


Accessibility is a Global Mandate

Author: Suzanne Cohen Share
Posted on Wednesday, November 16th, 2011 at 10:15

December 3 is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. On this December 3, the global celebration has an appropriate theme, “Together for a better world for all: Including persons with disabilities in development”.


Please Endorse the AODA Alliance’s Request of the Human Rights Tribunal, Human Rights Commission and Human Rights Legal Support Centre to Disclose Details on Enforcement of Human Rights in Ontario

November 14, 2011

We have just written the three major public agencies responsible for the enforcement of human rights in Ontario. We asked each for detailed information and statistics on the way human rights are being enforced now in Ontario.

Read more at
https://www.aodaalliance.org/strong-effective-aoda/11152011.asp


Equal Education Needed for Deaf

Posted November 13, 2011

A lack of public understanding is causing a lack of education among deaf people, a provincial authority says.

“All children need an education … an equal education,” Dean Walker, executive director of the Ontario Association of the Deaf

(OAD), said Saturday at Belleville’s Sir James Whitney School.

Members of the OAD and its affiliated Belleville association celebrated their 125th and 25th anniversaries respectively with