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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.
Dealing with the t-word
The Globe and Mail,
Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010
Whether the new security fees are a tax or a user fee is not our concern (Security Fee Not A Tax: Ottawa - Feb. 26). For people with disabilities, the problem is having to pay for a system that is not accessible and that we cannot use. It appears that no thought has been given to the accessibility of these devices: People with disabilities who cannot go through the scanner with their wheelchair, mobility device, guide dog etc. have no choice but to submit to a more invasive "pat down."
Laurie Beachell, national co-ordinator,
Council of Canadians with Disabilities
CCD wins VIA Rail case at the Supreme Court of Canada on March 23, 2007.