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Press Releases
2013
April 23, 2013
Suicide Celebration Instead of Suicide Prevention
March 22, 2013
Budget 2013: Creating More Inclusive Labour Markets
March 18, 2013
CCD AND CACL TO TESTIFY AT CARTER APPEAL (Assisted Suicide) HEARING
March 15, 2013
Assisted Suicide Case and Canadians with Disabilities Opposition
March 1, 2013
Assisted Suicide Case and Canadians with Disabilities Opposition
February 5, 2013
DISABILITY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS QUESTION EFFORTS TO LEGALISE ASSISTED SUICIDE DURING SUICIDE PREVENTION WEEK
January 29, 2013
CMHR to feature the most inclusive design in Canadian history
January 16, 2013
Private Sector Must Show Leadership on Employment and Disability
2012
December 3, 2012
We All Are People With Disabilities: You Are Us
June 15, 2012
Canadians with Disabilities Dismayed by BC Court Approval of Assisted Suicide
June 14, 2012
The Envelope Please: The Voting Results from CCD's AGM
June 14, 2012
Provincial and National Leaders on Disability Issues Recognized
May 31, 2012
Crusading for 24/7 Access
April 17, 2012
Constitutional Equality Rights: People with Disabilities Still Celebrating 30 Years Later
March 30, 2012
Viewing Budget 2012 with a Disability Lens
March 30, 2012
Global's "Taking Mercy" Portrays People with Disabilities as Suffering and Subhuman; CCD Seeks Redress
March 26, 2012
Raising Age of Eligibility for Old Age Security Will Prolong Poverty For Canadians with Disabilities
March 21, 2012
Supreme Court of Canada Hears Access to Education in Disabled Student's Case
February 10, 2012
Supreme Court Ensures that the Voice of Women with Disabilities Will Be Heard by Courts
2011
December 1, 2011
Celebrating Our Accomplishments on UN Day of Persons with Disabilities
November 17, 2011
CCD hopes court will rule no on killing
November 16, 2011
Canadians with disabilities recognize political allies, denounce the 'welfarization' of disability benefits
November 16, 2011
Use Election to Recommit to Access and Inclusion for Manitobans with Disabilities
June 6, 2011
Government Tries to Silence Critic of Student Loan Discrimination
May 16, 2011
Fundamental Disability Rights Case Goes to Supreme Court of Canada
April 27, 2011
We Are Electors. We Are Women with Disabilities.
April 14, 2011
Conservative Government Has Future-oriented Approach to Disability Issues
April 13, 2011
NDP Take Page from Disability Community's Action Plan
April 13, 2011
Green Party Includes People with Disabilities in Vision Green but NOT the Green Platform
April 13, 2011
CCD Dismayed Family with a Disabled Child Ordered Deported
April 4, 2011
Liberal Platform Puts Disability Issues on the Agenda, CCD Challenges Others To Do The Same
March 28, 2011
Federal Candidates Challenged to Run Accessible Campaigns
March 22, 2011
Dealing with Today´s Disability Poverty
March 16, 2011
P/T Ministers Consider Human Rights in the Context of Disability
2010
December 10, 2010
Council of Canadians with Disabilities to Intervene at Supreme Court of Canada Hearing Regarding Access to Justice for Victims of Discrimination
December 2, 2010
International Day of Persons with Disabilities - We're Sending Our Christmas Wish List to Federal Government
November 18, 2010
Federal Poverty Reduction Plan Must Address Disability Poverty
October 29, 2010
Disability Poverty: An Unacknowledged Reality
October 28, 2010
Disabling Poverty/Enabling Citizenship: End Exclusion 2010
September 16, 2010
Pharmacare central to preventing and eradicating poverty and the Premiers are acting on it
August 6, 2010
Premiers must put Canada's poor at top of agenda
June 16, 2010
Deadly Compassion
June 2, 2010
Student Creates Opportunity to Increase Accessibility
May 10, 2010
Affordable Accessible Housing- A Critical Issue for Canadians with Disabilities
March 11, 2010
Canada Ratifies United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
March 3, 2010
MPs Back to Work to Tackle Unfinished Business
February 24, 2010
Disability Group Challenges Canada on 'Excessive Burden': $5,259
February 12, 2010
Canadian Human Rights Tribunal Decision Safeguards Access on Voting Day
2009
December 3, 2009
Government of Canada Tables in the House The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Canadians with Disabilities Celebrate This Milestone Event
December 2, 2009
International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD): Celebrating Yes! But What?
July 29, 2009
Dignity For All, the campaign for a poverty-free Canada
July 24, 2009
Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) Opposes Bill C-384
March 31, 2009
Make EI Accessible and Inclusive to Canadian Women with Disabilities
March 30, 2009
Pressure Mounting for Ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
January 29, 2009
Federal Budget Sends New Signal to Disability Community
2008
September 29, 2008
Building An Inclusive and Accessible Canadian Transportation System
September 22, 2008
Access to Justice: A Disability Issue
September 19, 2008
Harper Announcement on Disability Falls Short of National Action Plan
September 18, 2008
Waiting to Be Tax Payers
September 15, 2008
Disability in Canada Means Living In Poverty
September 10, 2008
Election 2008 and Canadians with Disabilities
June 19, 2008
Groups Call for Complete Restoration of Court Challenges Program
May 12, 2008
Canadians with Disabilities Celebrate the Coming into Force of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
April 16, 2008
Poverty and Disability: Senate Committee Hears From Canadians with Disabilities
April 7, 2008
People with Disabilities Appear in Federal Court and Argue that Two Agencies of the Federal Crown have Failed to Accommodate Their Needs in the York Steps Project
February 25, 2008
Groups in Court to Seek Restoration of Funding to the Court Challenges Program
January 10, 2008
Reaction to Landmark Canadian Transportation Agency Decision: Disabled Canadians Jubilant to Have Transport Barrier Removed
January 10, 2008
Reaction to Landmark Canadian Transportation Agency Decision: Disabled Canadians Jubilant to Have Transport Barrier Removed
2007
March 23, 2007
Canadians With Disabilities Celebrate Supreme Court Decision
March 23, 2007
CCD, CACL, CAILC and Amnesty International Applaud Canada's Support for CRPD
March 20, 2007
Canada Signs UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
February 20, 2007
Government of Canada Urged To Show Continued Leadership and Sign UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
February 16, 2007
An Open Letter to Prime Minister Harper
2006
August 10, 2006
War and Peace: Disability Issues
May 17, 2006
Supreme Court of Canada to Rule on Access Rights of Persons with Disabilities
March 2, 2006
Open Letter: Disability Community response to CBC Interview with Robert Latimer
January 6, 2006
First Disability Strategy in Election 2006 on the Right Track
2005
December 5, 2005
Creating an Inclusive and Accessible Canada: Developing A National Disability Agenda
October 19, 2005
Question and Answer Fact Sheet
October 19, 2005
Canadians with Disabilities Call for Action, Not More Study
October 1, 2005
Turning the Corner: Transformational Change on Disability
March 15, 2005
Federal Court of Appeal Tells Canadians with Disabilities Separate is Equal
January 6, 2005
Letter to Hon. Jean Lapierre, Minister of Transport
January 2, 2005
Government Research Supports the Call for New Investments to Advance the Citizenship of Persons with Disabilities
2004
June 2, 2004
Liberal Investment in Disability Issues Welcome But Must Be Re-Profiled
May 31, 2004
Canadians with Disabilities Promote National Disability Supports Fund
2003
December 3, 2003
Via Appeal the Ruling
October 29, 2003
Canadians with Disabilities Win Battle with VIA Rail
2001
September 1, 2001
Air Canada and Via Rail Ignore Disabled in New Services
February 22, 2001
Disabled Canadians Win First Round with VIA Rail
February 1, 2001
VIA Rail Defies Canada's Accessibility Laws
2000
December 20, 2000
VIA Wants Canadians with Disabilities to Pay for their Rights
December 6, 2000
Via Rail Stopped in Its Tracks
December 5, 2000
Is Via About to Waste Tax Payer Dollars?
June 12, 2000
Latimer Appeal to Supreme Court Watched by Disabled Canadians
1999
November 9, 1999
CCD Takes Its Case for Fairer CPP to Supreme Court
1998
May 19, 1998
Coalition Of Disabled Canadians Seek Intervenor Status in Latimer Appeal
1997
December 17, 1997
Disabled Relieved With Decision To Appeal Latimer Sentence
December 1, 1997
Court Decision Threatens Equality Rights of Citizens with Disabilities
February 14, 1997
Disabled citizens lose once again, unfairly blamed in CPP Changes
February 1, 1997
Canadians with Disabilities Demand Retrial for Latimer
1996
October 15, 1996
Disability Group to File Human Rights Complaint Against Theatre Chain
October 9, 1996
Disability Groups Bitter About Supreme Court Decision
October 8, 1996