News articles regarding the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA)
Manager apologizes, but advocates for the blind say it happens too often
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | 12:27 PM ET
Joel Daze said his dog is his eyes, and she gets him where he needs to go. (cbc)
manager of a Subway restaurant has apologized to a visually impaired Ottawa man who was refused service at the restaurant because he wasn’t allowed to bring his seeing-eye dog inside, and advocacy groups for the blind say this happens far too often.
March 10, 2010
Joanne Shuttleworth
GUELPH — Matt Wozenilek can’t wait to try out the wheelchair-accessible door at his neighbourhood 7-Eleven store after taking the company to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal and winning.
Wozenilek, 58, can’t get around without a wheelchair and didn’t like that he couldn’t enter the 7-Eleven store at Stevenson Street North and Speedvale Avenue — the only convenience store in his neighbourhood — without someone opening the door for him.
Posted By JOYCE CASSIN NORTHUMBERLAND TODAY
January 22, 2010
-The Accessibility Advisory Committee (AAC) is asking for council’s assistance to make Port Hope a more accessible community for all who live there and for those who visit.
by Mike Beggs
Posted to site January 16, 2010
With the draft report finally in and before Minister of Community and Social Services Madeleine Meilleur, Toronto taxi industry leaders say the high standards of accessible service called for in the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) must be supported by government funding.
Posted By BRIAN SHYPULA, Staff Reporter
PostedJanuary 9, 2010
Volunteers with the Perth County accessibility advisory committee will be paid more to attend meetings in 2010.
Perth County councillors approved paying the volunteers $97.71 a meeting — the standard council committee rate for meeting which last less than three hours — to a maximum of six meetings a year.
