Our last article explored the principles that employers, landlords, and service providers must follow when implementing accommodations. Among these principles are integration and full participation. In this article, we discuss how service providers can accomplish these goals of accommodation using universal design.
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Danger of Disability Discrimination in Access to Life-Saving Critical Medical Care Grows as Overloaded Ontario Hospitals Near the Breaking Point
ACCESSIBILITY FOR ONTARIANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT ALLIANCE
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April 8, 2021 Toronto: The newest wave of COVID is overloading Ontario intensive care units, triggering yesterday’s new provincial lockdown. The day looms dangerously closer when life-saving critical care in Ontario hospitals will be rationed or “triaged”. Yet Ontario’s mishandled critical care triage plans are an impending disaster, leading some people with disabilities to fear going to hospital. Serious concerns have been raised by disability organizations and the Ontario Human Rights Commission.
Principles of Accommodation
Under the Ontario Human Rights Code (the Code), employers, landlords, and service providers must accommodate people with disabilities. In other words, organizations have a duty to make changes in order to meet the needs of workers, tenants, customers, or clients with disabilities. The right to accommodation ensures that people can work productively, live independently, and access services open to non-disabled people. In this article, we outline the human rights principles of accommodation. Accommodations that follow these principles create a society that respects all people.
The Right to Accommodation
Under the Ontario Human Rights Code (the Code), employers, landlords, and other service providers must accommodate people with disabilities. In other words, organizations have a duty to make changes in order to meet the needs of workers, tenants, customers, or clients with disabilities. The right to accommodation ensures that people can work productively, live independently, and have access to services open to non-disabled people.
As the COVID-19 Pandemic Again Worsens, Here’s Additional Media Coverage of the Ford Government’s Unwarranted Secrecy Over Ontario’s Seriously Flawed Critical Care Triage Protocol and Plans
Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance Update United for a Barrier-Free Society for All People with Disabilities
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April 1, 2021
SUMMARY
1. The News
The new and much more contagious COVID-19 variants are rapidly spreading. The media reports that Ontario hospital Intensive Care Units have more COVID-19 patients than ever. The Ford Government is understandably imposing more lock-down measures to stem the spread of the pandemic.