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Originally Published June 4, 2013
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Dear Premier Wynne:
We are writing today to tell more about our class action lawsuit to seek justice and compensation for the abuse we endured while we were institutionalized at the Huronia Regional Centre in Orillia.
You may remember meeting with us last year at the Truth and Reconciliation gathering in Toronto. You really seemed to care about what happened to us. You seemed really interested and you seemed to believe us.
Shockingly, not a Word about It from the Ontario Cabinet Minister Responsible at the Government’s August 28 2013 News Conference to Unveil the Games’ Planned Legacy
August 30, 2013
SUMMARY
The Ontario Government held a carefully-planned hour-long news conference on August 28, 2013 to unveil its planned legacy for Ontario for the 2015 Toronto Pan/ParaPan American Games. The “legacy” refers to the long-term benefits to Ontario that will be left behind from the large public investment that is planned for them. Below we set out the speaking notes of the Ontario cabinet minister responsible for these Games, Michael Chan, and the related news release.
August 27, 2013
SUMMARY
We can’t make this up! Last week the Government-subsidized Toronto 2015 Pan Parapan American Games sent AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky, who is blind, an inaccessible (and hence, unreadable) email invitation to an upcoming “good news” kick-off of the lead-up to the Games. Lepofsky gets and answers dozens, and at times, hundreds of emails each day and was shocked when this inaccessible one arrived.
By: Tim Alamenciak News reporter, Published on Mon Aug 26 2013
Disability advocate David Lepofsky says an email incompatible with screen-reading software underlines how Ontario is lagging on accessibility.
The Pan Am/Parapan Am Games organizers invited accessibility advocate David Lepofsky to a press conference. But the blind lawyer couldn’t read the email they sent – he uses software that reads text and their invitation was in an inaccessible image not compatible with his software.
By Victor Schwartzman
August 26, 2013
Last week, in the Top Ten Reasons Why AODA Has NOT Been Implemented, we dramatically revealed the, well, those reasons.
That top ten list was a nostalgic view of the past. But what about the future? Inquiring minds have demanded to know the top ten reasons why AODA will NEVER be fully implemented, and
here they are (the reasons not the minds):
10. The Government is progressive-impaired.
By Victor Schwartzman
August 19, 2013
We are entering the fourth month (or is it the fifth? when you get into months, does it matter?) of a failure by the Ontario Government to fully implement
AODA, including the appointment of a new Independent Review. Such a long delay on such an epic scale has many causes.
Most people do not know all those reasons. The number one public reason, which everyone knows and understands, is “The Government does not want to spend
the money.”
Conservative Party News Release Slams Ontario Government for Violating Disabilities Act –
AODA Alliance Invited to Meet with Accessibility Standards Advisory Council
August 15, 2013
SUMMARY
This year, our campaign for a fully accessible Ontario for all people with disabilities does not slow down for the summer months! Here’s a grab-bag of three new developments that illustrate how our efforts focus on so many different fronts at the same time.
By Victor Schwartzman
August 11, 2013
Minister Eric Hoskins called a special media conference to explain why a new
Independent AODA Review and other aspects of the legislation have not been implemented.
“The delay,” Minister Hoskins told the journalists, “has been due to the discovery of a new prophecy by Nostradamus.
August 9, 2013
SUMMARY
We encourage one and all to watch the 30-minute “Canada In Perspective” program entitled “Duty to Accommodate” airing on cable TV across Canada at 6 pm on august 11, 2013 on AMI-TV (Accessible Media). It deals with progress to date under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. One of the guests on the panel is AODA Alliance chair David Lepofsky. We hope you will find the exchanges between the panelists lively and interesting.
August 7, 2013
SUMMARY
On August 6, 2013, the AODA Alliance wrote the recently-appointed membership of the Accessibility Standards Advisory Council of Ontario (ASAC). We congratulated them on their appointment to this Council. We also requested an opportunity to meet with them at their next meeting.
ASAC has existed since 2005. Under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, ASAC was created to advise the Government on issues concerning the implementation and enforcement of the AODA.
By Ian MacAlpine
Kingston Whig-Standard, August 6, 2013
KINGSTON – A woman, who requires a power chair to get around, staged a sit-in Friday night, refusing to leave a Via Rail train until her complaints about accessibility issues were dealt with.
The passenger train was stopped at Kingston station as Louise Bark and her four-year-old service dog Bruce were returning from Toronto after 8 p.m.
By Victor Schwartzman
August 4, 2013
It was a dark and stormy Knight who created AODA.
Specifically, it was Sir Dalton Rae Davis, a largely unknown knight who spends too much time in tanning beds and has anger management problems. His importance is that for Liberal, Conservative and NDP Governments he specializes in “handling” community pressure groups.
