The Ford Government’s January 13, 2021 Critical Care Triage Protocol Would Make Every Triage Doctor a Law Unto Themselves, Denying Due Process or Fair Procedure to Patients Whose Lives Are In Jeopardy – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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In this Update we focus on one powerful and very disturbing illustration of how doctors would wrongly become a law unto themselves. They would too often be able to consciously or unconsciously bring to bear their own personal and subjective preferences when deciding which patients they will deny life-saving critical care. The January 13, 2021 […]

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London City Hall Accessibility Committee Chair Quits, Alleges Disability Law Violated – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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When London’s accessibility committee showed up in council chambers two years ago with resignation letters in hand, politicians promised change. But accessibility issues still aren’t taken seriously, advocates say, leading a longtime chairperson to resign her post and file complaints alleging city hall violated Ontario’s accessibility law. Read more athttps://aoda.ca/london-city-hall-accessibility-committee-chair-quits-alleges-disability-law-violated/ Related

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Web Accessibility and The Law – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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How do you make your website accessible? How do you stay in compliance with digital accessibility law? eSSENTIAL Accessibility’s Chief Accessibility & Legal Officer, Kris Rivenburgh, will quickly bring you up to speed in our “Web Accessibility and the Law” webinar on Tuesday, October 13 at 2:30pm ET. Read more athttps://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Q1H9jBO4SNu0_DRpaKSPPw Related

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ARCH Disability Law Centre Identifies Even More Problems with the Revised Draft Protocol for Deciding which COVID-19 Patients, Needing Critical Medical Care, Would Not Get That Care If there Is a Future Shortage of Critical Care Beds – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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The ARCH Disability Law Centre made public a very compelling, well-written submission to the Ford Government’s Bioethics Table. The Ford Government appointed the Bioethics Table, physicians and bioethicists, to advise it on how critical care should be rationed among patients if there is a shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more athttps://aoda.ca/arch-disability-law-centre-identifies-even-more-problems-with-the-revised-draft-protocol-for-deciding-which-covid-19-patients-needing-critical-medical-care-would-not-get-that-care-if-there-is-a-futu/ Related

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AODA Alliance Endorses ARCH Disability Law Centre’s Brief that Shows in Even More Detail How the Ford Government’s Revised Draft Medical Triage Protocol, Now Undergoing Consultation, Would Discriminate Against COVID-19 Patients with Disabilities If There Were Not Enough Ventilators for All Patients Needing Them – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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The ARCH Disability Law Centre has made public a superb new brief to the Ford Government on the serious disability human rights problems with the revised draft medical triage protocol on which the Ford Government is now holding a consultation. The AODA Alliance strongly endorses ARCH’s brief and congratulates ARCH on excellent work. ARCH’s brief […]

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New Report Reveals that At Majority of Ontario’s School Boards, Each School Principal Is a Law Unto Themselves, With Arbitrary Power to Exclude a Student From School – Real Risk of a Rash of Exclusion of Some Students with Disabilities When Schools Re-Open – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Parents of a third of a million Ontario K-12 students with disabilities have much to fear when schools re-open. A ground-breaking report by the non-partisan AODA Alliance (unveiled today, summary below) shows that for much of Ontario, each school principal is a law unto themselves, armed with a sweeping, arbitrary power to refuse to allow […]

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The ARCH Disability Law Centre Sends the Ford Government An Excellent Analysis of the Government’s Seriously Flawed March 28, 2020 Medical Triage Protocol – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Hasn’t The Government Already Held Its Promised and Overdue Public Consultation on Replacing That Problem-Ridden Protocol? Read more athttps://aoda.ca/the-arch-disability-law-centre-sends-the-ford-government-an-excellent-analysis-of-the-governments-seriously-flawed-march-28-2020-medical-triage-protocol/ Related

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The ARCH Disability Law Centre Sends the Ford Government An Excellent Analysis of the Government?s Seriously Flawed March 28, 2020 Medical Triage Protocol – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Hasn’t The Government Already Held Its Promised and Overdue Public Consultation on Replacing That Problem-Ridden Protocol? Read more athttps://aoda.ca/the-arch-disability-law-centre-sends-the-ford-government-an-excellent-analysis-of-the-governments-seriously-flawed-march-28-2020-medical-triage-protocol/ Related

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Nova Scotia announces plans to support accessibility law passed in 2017 – Halifax

Nova Scotia announces plans to support accessibility law passed in 2017 Halifax

[ad_1] Nova Scotia has announced the next steps to reach its goal of making the province more accessible for those with disabilities by 2030. Justice Minister Mark Furey has released an implementation strategy for the province’s Accessibility Act, passed in April 2017. READ MORE: Human rights board of inquiry finds N.S. failed to enforce accessible bathroom […]

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