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Attention and Awareness Event Happening Saturday January 23rd, 2021 6:00 - 7:00PM EST. #disabilityawareness #disabilityadvocate #disabilityevent Attention and Action is part of the growing international movement to spread awareness and advocate for the rights of people with disabilities. The campaign is holding its very first event about Disability and Employment. The event will focus on addressing the barriers people with disabilities face when seeking employment and what ar...e some ways to overcome those barriers. Event Link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/136230572309 The panel of speakers will includes: Diamond who is a Lifestyle Influencer with Spina Bifida Kim Heffington Insurance Agent with a non-visible disability Lisa Livingston from March of Dimes Canada Sheikha Hissa Khalifa Bin Ahmed Al-Thani (HH Princess Hissa AL-Thani), is a Former UN Special Rapporteur on Disability (2003- 2009) and presently a Member of the Executive Board of Disability Council International, Geneva, Switzerland Event Schedule: 6:00 - 6:10 - Event break down and speaker introductions 6:10 - 6:40 - Panel discussion with panelists 6:40 - 7:00 - Q and A and closing of event Event date and Time: Saturday January 23rd, 2021 6:00 - 7:00 PM EST Accessibility: CC will be available throughout the event Want to learn more about Attention and Action check out our website: https://attentionandaction.ca/home/.

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Watch TVO's "The Agenda with Steve Paikin" Tonight at 8 or 11 PM for a Lively Panel on the Need to Protect Patients with Disabilities from Disability Discrimina...tion if Life-Saving Critical Medical Care Must Be Rationed or Triaged Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic Overloading Hospitals January 13, 2021 Watch TVO's flagship current affairs program "The Agenda with Steve Paikin" tonight at 8 or 11 pm Eastern time for a half-hour panel on what the Ford Government should be doing to ensure that patients with disabilities do not face disability discrimination if life-saving critical medical care must be triaged or rationed. This rationing or triage could be needed soon if the soaring COVID-19 infection rates overload Ontario hospitals. The four panelists are AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky, ARCH Disability Law Centre legal counsel Mariam Shanuda, Dr. James Downar (a member of the Government-appointed external advisory Bioethics Table and an author of the March 28, 2020 critical care triage protocol with which the disability community had strong objections) and Ontario research chair in bioethics Prof. Udo Schuklenk. This panel will appear on TV. It will also stream tonight at 8 pm on the Twitter feed and Facebook page of The Agenda with Steve Paikin. It will be permanently available on YouTube within a few hours after it airs. We will publicize the Youtube link once we get it. We once again vigourously applaud The Agenda with Steve Paikin for addressing COVID-19 issues affecting people with disabilities. The Agenda stands in stark and resounding contrast to so many other media outlets that have not covered this life-and-death issue. Back on April 14, 2020, only one month into the pandemic, The Agenda with Steve Paikin included a panel discussion on how critical care triage should be conducted if COVID-19 overwhelms Ontario hospitals. The three panelists on that program included Dr. Downar, Prof. Schuklenk, and another bioethicist. There was no one speaking from the perspective of the disability community. Those panelists did not themselves voice any disability issues in relation to the entire critical care triage topic. When Steve Paikin raised the fact that concerns had been publicly raised from the disability perspective, Prof. Schuklenk denied that there was a problem of disability discrimination. He had not read the March 28, 2020 critical care triage protocol that the Government had already sent to all Ontario hospitals. After that program aired, AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky wrote The Agenda, urging it to cover the disability perspective on the triage issue as well as other disability issues in the COVID-19 pandemic. To its great credit, The Agenda included AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky and Wendy Porch (executive director of the Centre for Independent Living in Toronto CILT) on its May 8, 2020 broadcast. That discussion included the critical care triage issue as well as other disability concerns during the pandemic. We are delighted that The Agenda is now revisiting the critical care triage issue, given major developments since last spring. To our knowledge, this is the first time that a major media outlet has brought together panelists from the medical, bioethics and disability community perspectives. We need the Ford Government to take part in such discussions, rather than continuing to hide in secret behind its external advisory Bioethics Table that makes no decisions in this area. Please encourage your friends and family to watch this interview. Promote it on social media like Twitter and Facebook. Urge members of the Ontario Legislature to watch this interview. Call on the media to cover this issue too. There have been 713 days, over 23 months, since the Ford Government received the final report of the Independent Review of the implementation of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act by former Ontario Lieutenant Governor David Onley. The Government has announced no comprehensive plan of new action to implement that ground-breaking report. That makes even worse the serious problems facing patients with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, addressed in this new episode of The Agenda with Steve Paikin. For more background on this issue, check out: 1. The AODA Alliance's December 21, 2020 news release on the critical care triage issue. 2. The Government's external advisory Bioethics Table's September 11, 2020 draft critical care triage protocol, finally revealed days ago. 3. The December 3, 2020 open letter to the Ford Government from 64 community organizations, calling for the Government to make public the secret report on critical care triage from the Government-appointed Bioethics Table. 4. The AODA Alliance's unanswered September 25, 2020 letter, its November 2, 2020 letter, its November 9, 2020 letter, its December 7, 2020 letter, its December 15, 2020 letter and its December 17, 2020 letter to Health Minister Christine Elliott. 5. The August 30, 2020 AODA Alliance submission to the Ford Government's Bioethics Table, and a captioned online video of the AODA Alliance's August 31, 2020 oral presentation to the Bioethics Table on disability discrimination concerns in critical care triage. 6. The September 1, 2020 submission and July 20, 2020 submission by the ARCH Disability Law Centre to the Bioethics Table. 7.The November 5, 2020 captioned online speech by AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky on the disability rights concerns with Ontario's critical care triage protocol. 8. The AODA Alliance website's health care page, detailing its efforts to tear down barriers in the health care system facing patients with disabilities, and our COVID-19 page, detailing our efforts to address the needs of people with disabilities during the COVID-19 crisis.

Jewelles Smith Welcomed to CCD Staff | Le français suit January 7, 2021 - Today, Roxana Jahani Aval, Chairperson, and Shari Hildred, National Coordinator, announced that Jewelles Smith ([email protected]) has joined the staff of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) as the organization’s first Communications and Government Relations Coordinator. The Communications and Government Relations Coordinator is responsible for CCD’s related objectives in the general ca...Continue reading

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IRIS and Warriors Against Violence Society Victims and Survivors of Crime Week 2020: Video Now Available On November 27, 2020, IRIS and Warriors Against Violence Society hosted an event for Victims & Survivors of Crime Week entitled: Access to Justice for Indigenous, Racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ people with disabilities. There were over 150 attendees! You can now watch each of the panel presentations below. https://irisinstitute.ca//panel-presentation-videos-acces/

Disability Rights Online https://disabilityrightsonline.ca/| Droits des personnes handicapées en ligne https://disabilityrightsonline.ca/fr/accueil/ (Le français suit l'anglais) During the first two weeks of December, we have the opportunity to learn a lot about human rights, with the UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities falling on December 3rd and December 10th being International Human Rights Day. If the conversations that were begun on December 3rd and Decemb...Continue reading

Sondage Travailleuses et travailleurs handicapés en milieu de carrière Nous recherchons des participants ! Si vous êtes actuellement au milieu de votre carrière et que vous êtes en situation de handicap, vous êtes invité.e à répondre à ce sondage. Vos opinions sont importantes ! Cela fait partie de notre projet intitulé : Soutien aux travailleuses et travailleurs handicapés en milieu de carrière par le biais de ressources en développement communautaire, en éducation et en... avancement professionnel. La participation à ce sondage est volontaire et elle prend environ 15 minutes. Il y a un formulaire de consentement pour le sondage. Cette étude a été approuvée par le Comité d’éthique REB n 15803 de l’University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) le 2 octobre 2020. Dre Sue Coffey de l’UOIT à Oshawa mène cette étude avec Dr Charles Anyinam de Nipissing Universtiy, Prof. Leslie Graham du Durham College, Dre Celina da Silva de York University et Dre Lorayne Robertson de l’UOIT. Si vous avez des questions concernant l’étude, veuillez contacter Dre Sue Coffey directement par courriel à [email protected] ou au téléphone au 905-721-8668 x 6509. Si vous avez des questions concernant vos droits en tant que participant.e, des plaintes ou des événements indésirables à communiquer, contactez le Comité d’éthique par l’intermédiaire de la personne qui s’occupe de la coordination de l’éthique de la recherche (courriel) [email protected] ou (téléphone) 905-721-8668 x 3693. MERCI DE REMPLIR LE SONDAGE. VOICI LE LIEN-----------. https://ca.surveygizmo.com/s3/50086643/MCWDsurvey-FV-W Cordialement, Sue Coffey, Chercheuse principale, [email protected]

Mid-Career Workers with Disabilities Survey We are Seeking Participants! If you’re in the middle of your working career and have a disability, you’re invited to complete this survey. Your views are very important! This survey is a part of our project entitled, Supporting mid-career workers with disabilities through community building, education and career-progression resources. Participation in this survey is voluntary and it will take about 15 minutes. There is a consent ...form for the survey. This study was approved by the Ontario Tech University Research Ethics Board REB # 15803 on October 2, 2020. Dr. Sue Coffey at Ontario Tech in Oshawa is conducting this study along with Dr. Charles Anyinam at Nipissing University, Prof. Leslie Graham at Durham College, Dr. Celina da Silva at York University and Dr. Lorayne Robertson at Ontario Tech. If you have any questions about the study, please contact Dr. Sue Coffey directly by email at [email protected] or by phone 905-721-8668 x 6509. If you have any questions about the survey, contact the Research Ethics Board through the Research Ethics Coordinator (email) [email protected] or (phone) 905.721.8668 x 3693. THANK YOU FOR COMPLETING THIS SURVEY. HERE IS THE SECURE LINK: https://ca.surveygizmo.com/s3/50075478/MCWDsurvey-EV-W Best, Sue Coffey, Principal Investigator, [email protected]

Pan Canada Voice for Women’s Housing - A Symposium Image Description Session 7 Challenges Impacting Women with Disabilities Thursday October 29th, 2020 10:00 am 12:00 pm PST... RSVP to [email protected] Please note: We are prioritizing womxn with lived experience who identify with the topic. See more

Survey on Disability Inclusion in MBA Programs Our friends at @ats_org have partnered with Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) to launch a global survey on Disability Inclusion in MBA Programs. Believed to be the world's first study on disability inclusion in MBA programs, the study will shed light on the number and experience of people with disabilities in MBA programs.... If you are a current, former or prospective MBA student with a disability, share your experience in the survey below. First 400 respondents will receive C$25. https://uwinnipeg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4MIk4TXy3ytWeOh