News articles regarding the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA)
October 23, 2010
Thana Dharmarajah, Mercury staff
GUELPH — Matt Wozenilek holds a copy of The Bookshelf’s Off the Shelf publication. It lists events at the popular downtown bookstore and cinema, many of which he said he can’t attend because he is in a wheelchair.
“Very few of (the events), unless it is on the main floor, can I attend,” Wozenilek said.
By Roseanna Vachon
Parent Advocate
Posted to Site October 22, 2010
RE: Government Turns It’s Back on Intelectually Disabled Adults
Why would Liberal MPP Rick Johnson criticize the Progressive Conservatives for trying to assist the intellectually disabled? As a parent of an intellectually disabled adult, I came to him for help but no resolution was forthcoming. He indicated that it was a School Board decision and not a provincial government issue.
Press Release
INSTITUTE OF CANADIAN JUSTICE
12:00 EDT, October 20, 2010
HUMAN RIGHTS LEGAL SUPPORT CENTRE SERVES DEMAND LETTER ON THE TOWN OF WHITBY SO-CALLED “CENTRE OF ACCESSIBILITY
EXCELLENCE” FOR REFUSING HUMAN RIGHTS TO PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
SINCE 1991 THE TOWN OF WHITBY, THE SO-CALLED ACCESSIBILITY CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE, DESPITE RECEIVING MILLIONS IN PUBLIC FUNDS STILL REFUSES LEGISTLATED ACCESSIBILITY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, THE GREY TSUANMI AND OUR VETERANS.
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.
