Tell the Ford Government, School Boards and Others To Use Recommended New Standard for Ensuring Accessibility of the Built Environment

June 16, 2021 / by BBG Security / All, aoda.

Ontario desperately needs to modernize its outdated laws to ensure that buildings and the built environment becomes accessible to people with disabilities. The Ford Government has received a promising blueprint for this. This can help propel Ontario in the right direction towards becoming accessible to people with disabilities. Will the Ford Government act? Read more […]

Ensuring that Patients with Disabilities Don’t Face Discrimination in Access to Critical Medical Care If There is a Second Wave of COVID-19 that Overwhelms Ontario Hospitals-A new Brief by the AODA Alliance Is Made Public Today – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

September 2, 2020 / by BBG Security / All, aoda.

If there is a second wave of COVID-19 that is so severe that hospitals don’t have enough critical care beds and services for all patients who need that medical care, who will decide which patients get critical care and which ones will get refused? Read more athttps://aoda.ca/ensuring-that-patients-with-disabilities-dont-face-discrimination-in-access-to-critical-medical-care-if-there-is-a-second-wave-of-covid-19-that-overwhelms-ontario-hospitals-a-new-brief-by-the/ Related

What are the Ford Government’s Plans for Ensuring that One Third of a Million Students with Disabilities are Fully and Safely Included During School Re-Opening Next Month? – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

August 17, 2020 / by BBG Security / All, aoda.

The Ford Government has received excellent advice on what it needs to do. We are still waiting for it to unveil a comprehensive plan of action, so that 72 school boards are not left to flounder, reinventing the wheel, with the serious risk that they may get it wrong. The Ford Government has had five […]

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.

April 15, 2020 / by BBG Security / All, aoda.

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

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.

April 14, 2020 / by BBG Security / All, aoda.

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 […]