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Empower U: Learn to Access Your Disability Rights Training on Canadian Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and its Optional Protocol (OP) training aims to increase awareness of how to address discrimination using more familiar Canadian human rights laws such as Human Rights Codes and the newer international Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). This is training for persons with disabilities by persons with disabilities. The training is part of a project funded by Employment and Social Development Canada and implemented by the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) in collaboration with Canadian Multicultural Disability Centre Inc. (CMDCI), Citizens With Disabilities – Ontario (CWDO), Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities (MLPD) and National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS). Read more.
March 22, 2024
Let the Games Begin!
50th Annual Western Blind Curling Championships Open in Edmonton. Hosted at the Granite Curling Club
March 25, 2024
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes March 11 - March 22, 2024
News from the disability community. Read more
February 26, 2024
C-62: CCD, ARCH, Inclusion Canada, DAWN Canada Urged Changes to MAiD Bill - February 23, 2024
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March 21, 2024
Everyone has a responsibility to end racism
March 8, 2024
Too many women still left behind this International Women's Day
March 8, 2024
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes March 4 - March 8, 2024
March 4, 2024
Chairperson's Update: February 2024
March 4, 2024
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes February 26 - March 4, 2024
February 26, 2024
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes February 19 - February 26, 2024
Press Release
June 23, 2022
Supreme Court of Canada Rules Charter Challenge to Forced Psychiatric Treatment Laws Can Continue
June 23, 2022, (Vancouver, BC) Today the Supreme Court of Canada rejected the BC government’s five-year legal campaign aimed at stopping the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) – a nationally respected disability rights organization – from challenging BC’s outdated and unconstitutional forced psychiatric treatment laws. The court not only rejected the government’s appeal, but also confirmed that CCD has the legal right to bring the case forward. In an extraordinary move, the Court also ordered that the government pay for all legal costs associated with this unnecessary delay.“The Supreme Court unanimously and decisively resolved the standing question in CCD’s favour,” says Michael Feder, a lawyer with the law firm McCarthy Tétrault who argued the case on behalf of CCD. “This ruling has broad importance for access to justice and for ensuring discriminatory and other unconstitutional laws can be challenged in court.” Read more.
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September 30, 2015
Voting at an Elections Canada Office
After an election is called, you can vote at any Election Canada office across the country.
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June 15, 2021
Gathering Momentum for An Inclusive Workplace
On June 1, 2021, the Council of Canadians with Disabilities co-hosted and participated in a roundtable discussion on "The Role of Innovative Technologies in Recruiting and Increasing Retention of Employees with Disabilities" with Facebook and Inclusion Canada. Read more.