Une pension pourrait rendre leur dignité aux prestataires d’aide sociale, affirme un Professeur

Par Katherine Dedyna, Times Colonist, 19 novembre 2009, 7 h 06

Michael J. Prince est un PAT, à savoir une personne « physiquement apte temporairement ». Tout accident ou maladie peut, sans aucun avertissement, précipiter ce professeur de l’université de Victoria dans le bassin des deux millions de Canadiens ayant de graves déficiences.

Professor says dignity of pension could replace welfare for thousands

By Katherine Dedyna, Times Colonist November 19, 2009 7:06 AM

Michael J. Prince is a TAB: A temporarily able-bodied person. But without warning, accident or illness could push the University of Victoria professor into the ranks of more than two million Canadians with serious disabilities.

Une journée historique

A Historic Day

On 3 December 2009, when the Government of Canada introduced the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) into the House of Commons, the Canadian disability community passed another milestone on its human rights journey. In this edition of the Update, I will share CCD’s perspective on this historic event, as well as information on other CCD agenda items. All of these issues come under the influence of the CRPD.

Government of Canada Tables CRPD: Canadians with Disabilities Celebrate Milestone Event

3 décembre 2009

Pour distribution immédiate

Au nom du gouvernement du Canada, le ministre Peter MacKay a déposé aujourd’hui en Chambre la Convention relative aux droits des personnes handicapées (CDPH). C’est la première étape du processus de ratification de la Convention, impatiemment attendue par les Canadiens handicapés.

December 3, 2009

For Immediate Release

Today, Minister Peter MacKay, on behalf of the Government of Canada, tabled in the House the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). This is the final step in the process of Ratification of the Convention, one that has been eagerly awaited by Canadians with disabilities.

Par Sharon Murphy, membre de l’équipe de recherche du projet Pauvreté invalidante/citoyenneté habilitante et membre du Conseil de Canada sans pauvreté.

(Allocution présentée au Forum social canadien 2009)

By Sharon Murphy, A Member of the Research Team for the Disabling Poverty/Enabling Citizenship Research Project and a Board Member of Canada Without Poverty

(The Presentation was made at the Canadian Social Forum 2009.)

I hope to set the tone for this presentation by focusing on the realities of the lives of those who are disabled and living in poverty. I want to make the invisible visible. I want to talk about three men I met who panhandle on the main street in Halifax.

30 novembre 2009

The Globe and Mail

30 November 2009

The Globe and Mail