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Federal government will implement Senate proposals to strengthen accessibility law, Minister says
Thursday, May 23rd, 2019
the Senate committee on social affairs, science and technology adopted several amendments that nearly a hundred disability organizations said were necessary to make the law effective. Chief among them was a call to set a timeline requiring the act to be fully implemented in all areas under federal jurisdiction by 2040, as well as recognition of sign language as an official language among deaf Canadians.
Tags: disabilities, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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Ford still doesn’t understand the difference between charity and government
Saturday, May 18th, 2019
Almost a year into the job, Ford still doesn’t seem to understand the difference between an act of personal charity and the necessary role of government. If Ford is a decent citizen who spends his personal time doing good deeds in the community, that’s really great. But it doesn’t absolve him, as premier, of leading a government with policies that help people, rather than hurt them.
Tags: budget, disabilities, ideology, participation, standard of living
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Doug Ford’s government is a axe-wielding agent of chaos
Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
If you were serious about preserving or enhancing services while also making administration more effective and cost-efficient, what you might do is sit down with the people doing the work and figure out a plan with them to do things more effectively. And if you succeeded, you’d see better services materialize and costs lowered, and you could announce the proven savings in your next budget… This doesn’t appear to be a government making tough but worthwhile changes. It appears to be a government gleefully wielding a wrecking ball…
Tags: budget, child care, disabilities, economy, featured, Health, ideology, participation, standard of living
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Canadian Jean Vanier’s charity work helped improve conditions for people with disabilities
Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
Vanier argued that the Western culture of individualism which values beauty, money and success, also creates a gap between the healthy and the disabled. ”We have a fear of accompanying people who are weak … They are seen as a financial and social liability,” he said… He argued that the greatest threat to peace is a widening gap between rich and poor, between strong and weak. But rather than urging people to open their wallets to the less fortunate, Vanier asked them to open their hearts.
Tags: disabilities, ideology, participation, standard of living
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Canadian study identifies five most vulnerable groups for FASD
Wednesday, May 1st, 2019
The study identified five high-prevalence groups: children in care; people in correctional service custody; people in special education services; people using specialized services for developmental disabilities or psychiatric care; and Indigenous populations. The study was designed to help improve prevalence estimates and predictions with an eye to better public policy, and to allow for better planning and budgeting of health care, community and social services response.
Tags: child care, corrections, disabilities, Health, Indigenous, mental Health, poverty, women, youth
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‘A Broken System’: Adoptive Families Say Child Welfare Agencies Are Failing On Fasd
Monday, April 29th, 2019
In Canada, child welfare is a provincial responsibility and there is no national data on FASD among kids in care. But research published in 2014 on Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario found a prevalence rate three to four times higher than estimates for children in the general population. Broader research on child welfare systems across North America suggest the prevalence of FASD could be as high as 17 per cent… Respite options also tend to be crisis-oriented.
Tags: child care, disabilities, mental Health, youth
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Why The Most Common Developmental Disability In Canada Is Misdiagnosed Or Missed — And The Devastating Results
Friday, April 26th, 2019
There is no cure for FASD, but early intervention can offer critical strategies for symptoms ranging from mild speech and memory deficits to severe cognitive delays… Both FASD advocates and medical researchers are now trying to make sense of what’s been standing in the way of early detection and treatment — and whether emerging science might offer new solutions.
Tags: corrections, disabilities, ideology, mental Health, youth
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Passing Bill C-81 is critical to making Canada accessible for all Canadians
Monday, April 22nd, 2019
… only three provinces – Ontario, Manitoba and Nova Scotia – have accessibility legislation in place to remove barriers and mandate a minimum standard that enables meaningful access in the built environment and helps create a place where people with disabilities are living to their full potential. While the Charter offered a profound statement of equality for people with disabilities, we still have a long way to go to achieve the outcomes Canadians expect.
Tags: disabilities, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living
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Psychiatrists shouldn’t have a monopoly over psychotherapy
Monday, April 22nd, 2019
An average of 57 sessions of CBT over the course of approximately one year delivered the exact same clinical outcome as 234 sessions of psychoanalytic psychotherapy delivered over four years. The implications of this study are huge… Although psychiatrists do have some special advantages when they integrate psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy treatment together, they do not have a monopoly on delivering effective psychotherapy.
Tags: budget, disabilities, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation
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With a looming aging crisis, who is helping the caregivers?
Sunday, April 14th, 2019
“The cost and consequences of caring for an aging family member are high, and higher for women than they are for men, and higher still if there are no workplace, community or family supports to assist them”… the problem with women’s eldercare is that it is ultimately a problem of unpaid work that persists throughout women’s lives, from child care to household chores to emotional labour to end-of-life care… “We will all be caregivers and care receivers at some point in time. We need to figure out how to do this well.”
Tags: disabilities, economy, Health, ideology, participation, standard of living
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