Navi Dhanota knew she needed some help to score top grades in university but this time, she wasn’t prepared to return to a psychiatrist’s chair to get it. She didn’t think any student should have to disclose their private mental-health diagnosis for the privilege of academic accommodations like getting extra time to hand in an […]
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11th Annual CDSSA Conference: Crippin’ Canada
11th Annual CDSSA Conference: Crippin’ Canada April 8th, 2016 York University, Toronto York University’s Critical Disability Studies Student Association (CDSSA) is pleased to announce that our eleventh annual conference will be held on Keele campus on April 8th, 2016. The CDSSA invites graduate students, community researchers, and activists to submit proposals by February 1st 2016. This […]
Disability and Intersectionality Conference: York University – 26 September 2015
The Critical Disability Studies Student Association is happy to announce that it will be hosting the 10th annual interdisciplinary graduate student conference on Saturday, 26 September 2015 at York University in Toronto. View the preliminary program.
Fast Facts on Mothering and DisAbility
This year on Mother’s Day DAWN-RAFH Canada, in collaboration with Guelph University’s Centre for Families, Work and Well Being released Fast Facts on Mothering and DisAbility, the first in a series of pieces designed to raise awareness of the many issues and barriers that mothers with disabilities and Deaf mothers face. On Sunday, Huffington Post […]
CRWDP Spring 2015 newsletter released
The Centre for Research on Work Disability Policy (CRWDP) is a transdisciplinary initiative on the future of work disability policy in Canada. Access the CRWDP Sprint 2015 newsletter.
Kochita needs your help
About KocihtaThe Aboriginal Human Resource Council (AHRC) launched Kocihta as a national registered charity (#846394922 RR 0001) in October 2013. Kocihta, phonetically enuciated “Koh-chee-tah”, is one of only six national Indigenous charities/non-profits in Canada helping to resolve the Indigenous education and employment gap — our nation’s biggest socio-economic issue. It is the only national charity with the […]
Thirty years since the Charter’s equality provisions and LEAF’s founding. Where is equality now?
Women’s rights activists and advocates worked hard during the pre-Charter constitutional negotiations to gain broad equality rights provisions in the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms. When those provisions came into effect on April 17,1985, the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund opened its doors to ensure that they would be given real meaning by […]
Thirty years since the Charter’s equality provisions and LEAF’s founding. Where is equality now?
Women’s rights activists and advocates worked hard during the pre-Charter constitutional negotiations to gain broad equality rights provisions in the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms. When those provisions came into effect on April 17,1985, the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund opened its doors to ensure that they would be given real meaning by […]
Winnipeg: Rights tribunal to consider how Ottawa funds on-reserve programs
A landmark human rights case launched by a St. Theresa Point man finally has the go-ahead and could transform the way Ottawa funds services for disabled people on reserves. Kevin Taylor, whose cerebral palsy means he has limited verbal skills and can only walk with the use of crutches, filed a complaint with the Canadian […]
Does a zero-deficit fiscal policy breed social equality?
(Montreal) February 5, 2015 The DisAbled Women’s Network / Le Réseau d’action des femmes handicapées (DAWN-RAFH) Canada, along with other disability rights groups are outraged to learn via “Le Devoir” that the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) was floating the idea of using funds normally dedicated to providing services for disabled students to pay […]