Archive for the ‘Inclusion History’ Category
Indians and the just society
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – Indians and the just society: Forty years after Jean Chrétien’s ‘white paper,’ we still struggle to reconcile the Canadian square and the aboriginal circle
Jun. 27, 2009. William Johnson
A bombshell. No, a mega-magnitude earthquake. The tectonic plates underlying Canada collided against each other. To this day, the aftershocks continue their eruptions.
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Disabilities not a reason to send a person to ‘jail’ [warehousing people with physical, developmental and psychiatric disabilities]
TheGlobeandMail.com – Life/Health – Disabilities not a reason to send a person to ‘jail’
April 2, 2009. ANDRE PICARD
On Tuesday night, on the grounds of the Ontario legislature, a group of community-living activists and former residents of institutions gathered for a candlelight vigil.
They were celebrating a historic moment in the evolution of health and social-welfare systems that occurred when, on March 31, Ontario closed the last three large institutions for people with developmental disabilities.
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