Toronto Star Runs A Guest Column by AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky on the need for the Ontario Government to Come Up with a Plan to Meet the Urgent Needs of 2.6 Million Ontarians with Disabilities During the COVID-19 crisis – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Here is an important guest column that ran in the online version of the Toronto Star on April 20, 2020 by AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky. In about 750 words, it summarizes key points we have been revealing in our last ten AODA Alliance Updates since March 20, 2020. Read more athttps://aoda.ca/toronto-star-runs-a-guest-column-by-aoda-alliance-chair-david-lepofsky-on-the-need-for-the-ontario-government-to-come-up-with-a-plan-to-meet-the-urgent-needs-of-2-6-million-ontarians-with-disabilities/ Related

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Communicating with People with Disabilities in the COVID-19 Pandemic – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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As Ontarians continue physical distancing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, they rely on the media for news of the outside world. Access to information keeps all people safe and knowledgeable. To ensure that all people have the benefit of media access at this time, the government and other creators of media must make their […]

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Media Reports Show Yet More Problems Facing People with Disabilities During the COVID-19 crisis – The Need for Urgent Government Action Is Swiftly Ballooning – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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The fact that people with disabilities are facing additional hardships during the COVID-19 crisis leaps from the pages of media reports in this area. Here is a recent sampling of some of the coverage. This selection of news reports includes: Read more athttps://aoda.ca/media-reports-show-yet-more-problems-facing-people-with-disabilities-during-the-covid-19-crisis-the-need-for-urgent-government-action-is-swiftly-ballooning/ Related

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Tell Doctors, Nurses, EMTs or Others You Know That Work in the Health Care System About the AODA Alliance’s Discussion Paper on Ensuring that Medical Triage or Rationing of Health Care Services During the COVID-19 Crisis Does Not Discriminate Against Patients with Disabilities – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Please help us ensure that no people with disabilities who get the COVID-19 virus face any discrimination due to their disability when they seek help from our health care system. This Update offers you ways that you can quickly help, while you remain self-isolating at home. Read more athttps://aoda.ca/tell-doctors-nurses-emts-or-others-you-know-that-work-in-the-health-care-system-about-the-aoda-alliances-discussion-paper-on-ensuring-that-medical-triage-or-rationing-of-health-care-services-durin/ Related

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Morning Show Now with Dave Brown Puts News in the Lens of Disability – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Back in February, when protesters fighting the Coastal GasLink pipeline project erected blockades on Via Rail routes across Canada, at least 42,000 passengers in the Montreal-Toronto-Ottawa triangle were stranded. News outlets jumped on the shutdown and its related issues ” Indigenous land rights, environmental costs and government intervention. But, says morning show host Dave Brown, […]

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The Live-Streaming Boom Proves That Accessibility in Live Music Can – and Should – Be a Priority – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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‘As soon as live music was taken away from everyone, suddenly it was made accessible to everyone’ Read more athttp://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/the-live-streaming-boom-proves-that-accessibility-in-live-music-can-and-should-be-a-priority/ Related

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A Discussion Paper on Ensuring that Medical Triage or Rationing of Health Care Services During the COVID-19 Crisis Does Not Discriminate Against Patients with Disabilities – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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From the experience in other countries with the COVID-19 crisis, we know that our health care system may get more people needing urgent medical treatment than there are facilities to provide that medical treatment. The Ontario Government has in circulation a health care “triage” (or rationing) protocol for health care facilities to use when making […]

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Federal Government names group to ensure disabled Canadians included in COVID-19 response – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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The COVID-19 pandemic takes a particularly heavy toll on Canadians with disabilities and more efforts are needed to ensure they’re included in national efforts to respond to the crisis, the minister overseeing accessibility issues said Friday as she appointed an advisory group to take on the task. Read more athttp://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/federal-government-names-group-to-ensure-disabled-canadians-included-in-covid-19-response/ Related

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Major Disability Organizations Unite to Voice Serious Fears About Supposedly “Draft” Ontario Protocol for Rationing Critical Medical Care – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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A Patient’s Disability Should Never Be Used as a Reason to Deny Medical Care Read more athttps://aoda.ca/major-disability-organizations-unite-to-voice-serious-fears-about-supposedly-draft-ontario-protocol-for-rationing-critical-medical-care/ Related

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