News articles regarding the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA)
A representative for the city’s disabled community may challenge the city for failing to respect the rights of the disabled
By JONATHAN SHER
Last Updated: 17th November 2009, 10:14am
London politicians shunted aside a request from the disabled yesterday to restore spending to clear snow-packed sidewalks, but mostly gushed about a proposal to forgo even more cash to extend free and overnight on-street parking.
Queen’s completes scan to assess physical accessibility on campus
By Rachel Kuper, Assistant News Editor
Director of Campus Planning and Development Audrey Kaplan says the University’s getting better and more Auditors will complete an accessibility scan of Queen’s today to bring the University up to provincial standards by January 2010.
The province, which mandated accessibility improvements by 2010, aims to have accessibility for all Ontarians by 2025.
Written by Atara Beck
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
TORONTO – According to Edward Rice, chairman of Ontarians with Disabilities Sub-Committee, League for Human Rights, B’nai Brith Canada, “UJA Federation [of Greater Toronto] has gone beyond the building code” to accommodate disabled people at the renovated Lipa Green building – the first building to be completed at the new Sherman Jewish community campus on Bathurst north of Sheppard.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Last night I froze watching my oldest child play hockey. It is part of the duty of a Canadian mother to tolerate this little ritual. Destruction got his second assist and though they lost the game, he played well. As I stood there, my body wracked in complete pain, I decided that it was time to make management aware of exactly how inaccessible their arena was.
How Will You Remember Our Heros and What Will You Do to Combat Human Rights Abuses in Canada by Tim Hortons?
Whitby, Ontario, November 11, 2009:
Ask a soldier what he would be willing to fight for and probably a cup of Timmies would rank top ten on a dark cold night in Afghanistan. It is too bad that same soldier cannot be honoured or even respected back home by Tim Hortons; our government’s laws and their human rights agreements. These required Tim Hortons to provide accessibility for people with disabilities over eighteen years ago.
