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

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Some public transit drivers state that they should not be assisting passengers with disabilities to board buses during the COVID-19 pandemic. These drivers state that this assistance requires them to come into close contact with passengers. Nonetheless, the Transportation Standards of the AODA require public transit drivers to provide this assistance to people with disabilities. […]

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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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Accessibility News April 11,2020 Update – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/acnewsca AbleDocs Inc. is excited to be joining the Accessibility News team to ensure all documents are made accessible and compliant. AbleDocs is the only organization to guarantee the compliance of the files we produce and back that up with a $10,000,000 guarantee. We look forward to working with you […]

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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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Incentives for Housing Accessibility – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Currently, there are no AODA standards that require houses and apartments to be accessible. Most housing developers do not think about the needs of people with disabilities when they build living spaces. Instead, they assume that everyone living in the spaces they design can use features like stairs and narrow doorways. As a result, there […]

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Governments Must Now Meet the Urgent Needs of Millions of People with Disabilities During the COVID-19 Crisis – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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A Captioned Online Virtual Public Forum Lets Experts Give the Top Priorities from the Frontlines Tomorrow 10 am. EDT Read more athttps://aoda.ca/governments-must-now-meet-the-urgent-needs-of-millions-of-people-with-disabilities-during-the-covid-19-crisis/ Related

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