Remembering a Major Setback on the Road to Equality for People with Disabilities Forty Years Ago Today- But One that Was Thankfully Reversed a Mere 16 Days Later! – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Four decades ago, people with disabilities were waging a battle to get equality rights for people with disabilities entrenched in the new Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms that Parliament was then considering for inclusion in Canada’s Constitution. Read more athttps://aoda.ca/remembering-a-major-setback-on-the-road-to-equality-for-people-with-disabilities-forty-years-ago-today-but-one-that-was-thankfully-reversed-a-mere-16-days-later/ Related

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What Did Disability Advocates Tell Canada’s Parliament 40 Years Ago This Fall to Help Win an Historic Amendment to the Charter of Rights to Protect Equality for People with Disabilities? – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Let’s take a cool stroll down disability rights advocacy memory lane going back four decades! Today, we make public a real treasure from the history of the ongoing non-partisan campaign for full accessibility, full participation and full inclusion of people with disabilities in Canadian society! These events still resonate to this day. Read more athttps://aoda.ca/what-did-disability-advocates-tell-canadas-parliament-40-years-ago-this-fall-to-help-win-an-historic-amendment-to-the-charter-of-rights-to-protect-equality-for-people-with-disabilities/ […]

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It Took A Pandemic To Prove What Students With Disabilities Wanted For Years Is Possible – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Schools’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic shows online learning is possible – but students with disabilities still need additional support. Read more athttp://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/it-took-a-pandemic-to-prove-what-students-with-disabilities-wanted-for-years-is-possible/ Related

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It Took A Pandemic To Prove What Students With Disabilities Wanted For Years Is Possible – Accessibility News International

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Schools’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic shows online learning is possible – but students with disabilities still need additional support. By Sherina HarrisThis story is part of Learning Curve, a HuffPost Canada series that explores the challenges and opportunities for students, faculty and post-secondary institutions amid the COVID-19 pandemic. When universities moved online in March […]

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‘They Were Given 20 Years’ – TTC Warns It Will Be Hard to Hit 2025 Target to Make the Subway Accessible – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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David Lepofsky, chair of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act Alliance, a volunteer advocacy group, said the TTC has “absolutely no excuse” for not meeting the 2025 deadline, which the province set in 2005. Read more athttps://aoda.ca/they-were-given-20-years-ttc-warns-it-will-be-hard-to-hit-2025-target-to-make-the-subway-accessible/ Related

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