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History of Disability in Canada con't

Things begin to turn

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May 28th to June 3rd was National AccessAbility Week. This year's theme was Disability Inclusion: From Possibilities to Practice

Some of the pieces brought into focus, included a snapshot of Canada's history on disability. You can view the timeline and learn more by visiting our website here: www.jhcentre.org/news-and-events/2023/5/29/national-accessability-week-may-28-to-june-3

This is a big issue in Edmonton and surrounding area as well. I suspect throughout Canada:
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Lack of accessible and affordable housing frustrating for Albertans with disabilities | Globalnews.ca Only 10 per cent of residential units in Calgary are fully accessible, according to Accessible Housing Calgary.

Disability Without Poverty Presents: Community Unity National Dance Party
In-person and online
Join us for a dance party led by dancers from the National accessARTS Centre.
August 28th
12:00pm PST/1:00pm MST/ 3:00pm EST

Community Unity Dance Party Join us for a dance party led by dancers from the National access ARTS Centre. Live and online Sunday August 28 !

Great podcast this week from Talking Radical on ableism and disability justice through collective approaches to popular education. Worth a listen!
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Anti-ableism and disaility justice education In episode #467 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Dev Ramsawakh and Kate Welsh. They are co-creators of the CRIP Collective, a small group of Toronto-based disabled educators and artist

Check out the work of some Radical members here.

Food Dignity and Disability Food Dignity is a guaranteed right under the UNCRPD. The members of the Self Advocacy Federation are proud to present their work regarding how people living ...

Rick Hanson Foundation is looking for some input. Consider participating or sharing.

Great news! Huge congratulations to Laverne Jacobs for her appointment to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/windsor-ontario-laverne-jacobs-un-disability-committee-1.6491166

Windsor, Ont., law prof becomes 1st Canadian on the UN's disabilities rights committee | CBC News Laverne Jacobs, a law professor in Windsor, Ont., has been elected to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities — the first time Canada will have a seat at this table.

YEG DIGNITY: Nothing About Us Without Us, Poverty Listen to perspectives on how poverty, disability, and dignity intersect. Poverty is more than not having money; it's about community, safety and appropriate...

“We’ve spent years crafting this policy to make the city better, and now we just have a dead policy that nobody looks at. It’s shoved in the back of the closet as a ‘just in case’,” Weeks said.

https://edmonton.taproot.news/news/2022/03/10/city-accessibility-policy-needs-awareness-and-enforcement-advocates-say

City accessibility policy needs awareness and enforcement, advocates say The city has not taken sufficient action to enforce the accessibility policy council passed in 2019, nor has it educated Edmontonians about it enough, say two members of Edmonton's accessibility advisory committee.

Stopping for a team meeting at Tim Horton’s and we had some challenges accessing the space despite a ramp in place. The ramp getting up to the walk and the door was nearly impossible and posed serious challenges. While businesses may have good intentions, accessibility is only a reality when we build directly with the input of folks who need that accessibility. https://vimeo.com/711220721

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Check out Radical Inclusion members on the Well Endowed Postcast from the Edmonton Community Foundation. The episode features important conversations on state induced poverty and inclusion in the community. Have a listen to Lisa Bennett and Roxanne Ulanicki here.

“Forced poverty” is a term regularly used in disability spaces. The cycle is difficult—if not impossible—to escape. It’s easy to understand why.

The endless extra costs of living with a disability, like having to pay out of pocket for essential medical supplies, are another one of the many reasons why our state of forced poverty continues."

Episode 118 - Radical Inclusion and Disability Rights - The Well Endowed Podcast On this episode, we find out about the Radical Inclusion Program created by John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights. In August of 2021, the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights released a report on the Status of Rights of People Living with Disability in Alberta. Our correspondent...

Radical Inclusion invites you to join us for Conversations on Accessible Transportation in Edmonton.

These conversations will collect stories and experiences to directly inform and strengthen public transit in Edmonton.

Radical Inclusion is collaborating with the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights and Dr. Emily Grise (University of Alberta) and Dr. Joshua Evans (University of Alberta). Dr. Grise and Dr. Evans are currently undertaking a project entitled, “Understanding the evolving transport needs of seniors and persons with disabilities in Edmonton, Canada.” The project is being done in collaboration with the City of Edmonton and Edmonton Transit Service with the goal to strengthen transportation for people living with disabilities.

Sessions will be taking place between May and June, online and in person. To register, please fill out the registration form.

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Conversations on Accessible Transportation in Edmonton These conversations will collect stories and experiences to directly inform and strengthen public transit in Edmonton as well as other transportation needs (cabs, not-for-profit driving services such as Driving Miss Daisy, accessible parking and ride-hailing services such as Uber). Radical Inclusion...

Is inclusion respected in Alberta? A Report on the Status of People living with Disabilities highlights the challenges and need for progress on disability rights in our Province.

Between 2020 and 2021, A team of thirteen people worked together to engage in a review of human rights in Alberta as it relates to the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The majority of this team was made up of folks who experience visible and invisible disabilities personally. They worked diligently to develop and submit a formal report to the United Nations’ Committee on the Rights of Person with Disabilities highlighting the challenges and need for progress on disability rights. The report highlights five critical areas which need to be urgently addressed in relation to financial barriers, employment and careers, housing, healthcare, and access to justice.

To read the full report visit https://sites.google.com/jhcentre.org/radicalinclusion/home

“Our investigation found the hearing procedures to be administratively unfair, as there are no procedures in place for the hearings,” Ombudsman Marianne Ryan wrote in a letter obtained by Postmedia. “We also found there are no policies requiring the Appeals Secretariat to notify appellants they must ask in advance for a hearing to be recorded, nor for the Appeals Secretariat to ask in advance if appellants require any accommodations for a disability.

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AISH appeal processes are unfair and 'troubling' for people with disabilities: Alberta Ombudsman Albertans wanting to challenge their provincial disability benefits are facing a system that isn’t fair, according to the Alberta Ombudsman.

Nothing about us ~ without us!

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