Online Survey: Accessibility Standards for Education and Built Environment
There is an opportunity to participate in an online survey to seek input on barriers to accessibility in education and the built environment.
In memorial; Joanne Larade
As many of you have likely heard, Joanne Larade passed away last week, just one day after moderating No More Warehousing’s ‘Celebrating Mothers’ event. Joanne was a very passionate, outgoing disability rights advocate with lots of optimism and life. We are so saddened by her sudden passing.
Frank Magazine: A Solomonic Human Rights Decision
“Last Month, Walter Thompson ruled that Nova Scotia violated the rights of three people with intellectual disabilities when it confined them for lenghty periond in a locked unit at the N.S. Hospital rather than making serious efforts to place them in small options homes, residences with usually around four people. One of the complainants died during the course of these hearings.”…