COMMENTARY: St. Thomas University fails to make the grade on accessibility
Every day, multiple students living with disabilities at St. Thomas University are forced to find and make their own physical, ...
Tag: disability
COMMENTARY: Being disabled is not cause for inspiration. Fighting discriminatory policies is.
As someone with a disability, I can tell you that having a disability, whether it be a physical disability such ...
COMMENTARY: Snow way, snow how? How Fredericton refuses to make winter sidewalks accessible
Winter snow removal is an issue every year and yet, somehow, the city of Fredericton relegates sidewalks to the back ...
COMMENTARY: COVID-19 and tone policing
We often see suggestions that since a decent number of people survive Covid-19 infection without death or visible disability, people ...
COMMENTARY: Canadian universities’ disability policies are inadequate
In universities across Canada, accessibility provisions are offered only intermittently, leaving the nation’s roughly 200,000 disabled post-secondary students in a ...
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COMMENTARY: Talent left untapped due to inaccessible workplaces
As a disability and human rights advocate, I have experienced firsthand being excluded from an activity, event, or establishment simply ...
Decades of neoliberal governance have left disabled New Brunswickers in poverty and without social assistance
The Higgs government continues to sit atop hefty budget surpluses that have failed to reach those in need, including women, ...
New Brunswick’s housing crisis for people with disabilities
Imagine this. You have moved out of your parent’s home, finally free to live your life to the fullest. This ...
New Brunswick’s Household Income Policy forcing persons with a disability to live alone
The Household Income Policy needs to be changed for persons with a disability. We should not have to live alone, ...
Axe the Household Income Policy, say disability rights advocates and allies
Today, disability rights advocates and allies are launching a letter writing campaign website, axethehip.ca, to abolish the Household Income Policy. ...
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