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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.
September 17, 2021
What Are Canada's Political Parties Plans Concerning Inclusive Emergency Preparedness?
. “CCD is seeking to learn from the Federal Parties how, if elected to form the Government of Canada, they would ensure that Canada’s emergency preparedness activities contribute to the goal of a barrier-free Canada as set out in the ACA,” states Jewelles Smith, CCD Communications and Government Relations Coordinator. Read more
September 9, 2021
CCD Seeks from Parties Disability-Inclusive Climate Action and Emergency Preparedness Plans
A principle of the international disability rights movement is “nothing about us without us”, meaning that people with disabilities must play an integral role in planning societal solutions to anything that affects them and climate change is not an exception to this principle. Due to the work of groups like the Disability-Inclusive Climate Action Research Program (DICARP), the resources are at hand to help ensure that accessible and inclusive climate change action plans are developed. Jewelles Smith, CCD Communications and Government Relations Coordinator, is a member of the DICARP Advisory Panel. “We remind the Federal parties that human rights oblige governments to ensure that solutions to climate change do not disadvantage people with disabilities,” states Jewelles Smith. Read more
September 15, 2021
CCD Seeking an Accessible and Inclusive Post-COVID-19 World: No New Barriers!
CCD is seeking commitments from all parties concerning how they plan to ensure Canada’s future spending is a driving force behind a barrier-free country. Read more
More on Our Issues
September 13, 2021
CCD Seeks Commitments on Accessible and Affordable Housing
September 7, 2021
CCD Seeks Parties' Position on Disability Benefit
September 3, 2021
CCD Calls for Commitments to Remedy Discrimination against Blind Voters
September 2, 2021
Leader Letters
September 1, 2021
CCD Urges Federal Election Candidates to Run Accessible Campaigns
August 27, 2021
How to Vote in the Federal Election, September 20, 2021
In Memorium: Carmela Hutchison (1961 - 2019)
(Row 1 L-R Carmela Hutchison, with CCD colleagues Pat Danforth; Row 2: L-R Jewelles Smith, Frank Folino Roxana Jahani Aval, Kathleen Thompson). "First the National Network for Mental Health appointed Carmela as their representative on Council and then DAWN Canada appointed her to Council. Carmela also served on our Ending of Life Ethics Committee and served on several Nominating and Bylaws Committees during her time with CCD." ~ Jewelles Smith
Videos
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.
Weblog
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.
Press Release
September 17, 2021
What Are Canada's Political Parties Plans Concerning Inclusive Emergency Preparedness?
. “CCD is seeking to learn from the Federal Parties how, if elected to form the Government of Canada, they would ensure that Canada’s emergency preparedness activities contribute to the goal of a barrier-free Canada as set out in the ACA,” states Jewelles Smith, CCD Communications and Government Relations Coordinator. Read more.