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Today is The Ford Government’s Troubling Three Year Anniversary of Inaction On the Onley Report, Which Had Urged Bold New Action on Accessibility for 2.6 Million Ontarians with Disabilities

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January 31, 2022 Toronto: Today is the three year anniversary of the day when the Ford Government received the blistering final report of the Independent Review of the Implementation of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, by former Ontario Lieutenant Governor David Onley. In the 1,096 days since then, Premier Ford announced no comprehensive plan to implement Onley’s report. Onley found that progress towards Ontario becoming accessible to 2.6 million people with disabilities was “glacial”, and that Ontario remains full of “soul-crushing barriers” impeding people with disabilities.

Today is The Ford Government’s Troubling Three Year Anniversary of Inaction On the Onley Report, Which Had Urged Bold New Action on Accessibility for 2.6 Million Ontarians with Disabilities. Read full article.

AODA Alliance Calls on the Ford Government to Swiftly Post Online the Final Report of the K-12 Education Standards Development Committee Which It Received Today

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January 28, 2022

SUMMARY

On Friday, January 28, 2022, the Ford Government received the final report of the K-12 Education Standards Development Committee. It gives the Government detailed recommendations on what the Government should enact in the promised Education Accessibility Standard to tear down the many disability barriers impeding students with disabilities in Ontario-funded schools.

AODA Alliance Calls on the Ford Government to Swiftly Post Online the Final Report of the K-12 Education Standards Development Committee Which It Received Today. Read full article.

Disability Rights Advocate Files Court Application Today Against Ford Government for Discriminating Against Blind People Like Him

By Only Allowing Online Renewal of an Expired Health Card if a Person Has a Driver’s License Ontario’s Own Official Photo ID Card isn’t Accepted

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Disability Rights Advocate Files Court Application Today Against Ford Government for Discriminating Against Blind People Like Him. Read full article.

One Year After Disability-Discriminatory Critical Care Triage Protocol was Secretly Sent to Ontario Hospitals, Disability Advocates Sound the Alarm About the Danger of Disability Discrimination in Access to Health Care as the Omicron Variant Rapidly Overloads Hospitals

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January 13, 2022 Toronto: As the Omicron variant rapidly spreads, the danger that some patients will lose their lives because hospitals are overloaded grows closer. Sounding the alarm, a major disability coalition wrote Ontario’s Health Minister, calling for immediate action to ensure that patients with disabilities face no disability discrimination in access to health care. The AODA Alliance’s January 12, 2021 letter below, warns:

One Year After Disability-Discriminatory Critical Care Triage Protocol was Secretly Sent to Ontario Hospitals, Disability Advocates Sound the Alarm About the Danger of Disability Discrimination in Access to Health Care as the Omicron Variant Rapidly Overloads Hospitals. Read full article.

Omicron Surge Amplifies the Need for The Ford Government to Remove the Disability Discrimination From the Critical Care Triage Protocol in Ontario Hospitals

and — Correction to the December 20, 2021 News Release on Online Health Card Renewals

December 21, 2021

SUMMARY

Omicron Surge Amplifies the Need for The Ford Government to Remove the Disability Discrimination From the Critical Care Triage Protocol in Ontario Hospitals. Read full article.