Disability Rights Coalition Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia Halifax, NS, Canada

We need to keep our limitations & STOP moving backwards!!

https://www.cbc.ca//assisted-dying-fourth-extension-1.5927

Not in NS but no doubt in my mind it applies EVERYWHERE!! https://www.thestar.com//pandemic-highlights-existing-barr

The Roadmap of Choice, Equality and Good Lives in Inclusive Communities for Transforming the Nova Scotia Services to Persons with Disabilities Program by The Nova Scotia Joint Community-Government Advisory Committee, guided by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD): Developed on a basis of commitments by the Government of Nova Scotia, including equal access to housing. The basis of an Adverse Impact Claim such as the case of March 201...Continue reading

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This systemic discrimination must be stopped. The compensation order for the complainants was particularly insulting. It is time to end segregation and discrimination against people with disabilities in Nova Scotia. -Vicky Levack

We've posted extracts from the Court of Appeal’s upcoming docketthey have information about the hearing dates (November 18th and 19th) and times as well as the names of the panel of three judges who will be hearing and deciding the DRC’s appeal. A link to the livestream of the appeal hearing will be available on the Court’s livestream webpage with a link also posted on the DRC’s homepage.

The closure of institutions and the provision of community-based supports, which the DRC, People First and others have been pushing for years, is something which happened decades ago in the UK. Here’s a 9-minute BBC podcast which tells the story of one person who survived institutionalization and fought for his right to community living.

The recent Chronicle-Herald article by Andrew Rankin stirred strong responses from readers and disability rights advocates alike.

UPDATE: this interview is now available online at https://www.disabilityrightscoalitionns.ca//justice-ginsb/ Legal columnist Wayne MacKay was on CBC radio earlier this morning, Oct 2nd, at 7:20 am to talk about the significance of Justice Ginsberg's (the Notorious RBG) milestone decision in Olmstead that outlawed the institutionalization of people with disabilities as discriminatory as it relates to our November appeal in the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal and its relevance for Nova Scotia