Incident violates Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act(AODA), lawyer Shannon Down says. Julianne Hazlewood
CBC News
Posted: Sep 17, 2020
Chris Trudell-Conklin plans to file a complaint through the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario after she says the Crowne Plaza Kitchener-Waterloo didn’t allow her access to main areas of the hotel with her guide dog Cody. (
After months of waiting, Chris Trudell-Conklin finally got to meet her new guide dog Cody last week.
August 25, 2020
Today, the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) filed a motion with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) for an order to hold Ontario accountable for failing to meet its legal obligations to keep prisoners with mental health disabilities out of segregation.
The OHRC’s motion sets out that Ontario has:
Bonnie Lysyk’s annual report highlighted issues with the Ontario Disability Support Program and advocates are worried about what ideas it might give Doug Ford’s government ByTebasum Durrani and Clara Pasieka
Published on Jan 09, 2020
Andrea Hatala lives with a visual impairment. But all her life, she says, people have told her, “Oh come on, you can really see.”
Sarah Jama, co-founder of the Disability Justice Network of Ontario, talks with Nam Kiwanuka about making change and building a society that fits everybody By Carla Lucchetta – Published on Aug 28, 2019
When Sarah Jama sought advice in Grade 12 about what she should do after high school, she was steered toward another year of high school and told to pursue college instead of university. “It happens to a lot of people not just with disabilities, but also racialized people,” Jama tells Nam Kiwanuka on The Agenda in the Summer.
By Dianne Wintermute, Staff Lawyer
On November 22, 2018, the Minister of Children, Community and Social Services announced that social assistance in Ontario would be reformed. One of the changes is to redefine disability under the current Ontario Disability Support Program Act (ODSPA), the law which governs income support benefits that Ontario provides to eligible persons with disabilities. The Minister said that the new definition would be more like the one used in federal government benefit programs.
