Advocacy group sounding alarm on ‘extreme’ wait times for specialized mobility aids in Alberta

January 21, 2021 / by BBG Security / AADL, alberta aids to daily living, Community and social services critic, Disabilities, Health, Health Care, Health Minister, Ministry Of Health, mobility aids, NDP, Politics, Red Deer, Specialized wheelchairs, The Lending Cupboard, tyler shandro, UCP, Wheelchairs, Wheels Of Change, YQL

A newly formed advocacy group called Wheels of Change is sounding the alarm on Albertans with spinal cord injuries having to wait extreme periods of time to receive specialized wheelchairs and equipment under a government program called Alberta Aids to Daily Living (AADL). “To me, these are my legs, this helps me move from […]

Toronto Restaurant Discriminated Against Woman Who Uses Mobility Aids, Tribunal Rules – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

August 20, 2020 / by BBG Security / All, aoda.

In a decision issued this week, the tribunal says Haily ButlerHenderson “experienced adverse treatment” when she was repeatedly refused access to a downstairs washroom at the Pentagram Bar and Grill on Aug. 19, 2016. Read more athttps://aoda.ca/toronto-restaurant-discriminated-against-woman-who-uses-mobility-aids-tribunal-rules/ Related

Toronto restaurant discriminated against woman who uses mobility aids, tribunal rules – Toronto

August 13, 2020 / by BBG Security / Canada, Disabilities, Disability, Haily Butler-Henderson, Human Rights, Human Rights Tribunal, HUman rights Tribunal of ONtario, mobility aids, Ontario human rights tribunal, Pentagram Bar and Grill, Toronto, Toronto restaurant, woman mobility aids

TORONTO — A Toronto restaurant discriminated against a woman who uses mobility devices and “publicly humiliated” her by refusing to let her use its bathroom four years ago, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has ruled. In a decision issued this week, the tribunal says Haily Butler-Henderson “experienced adverse treatment” when she was repeatedly refused […]