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Empower U: Learn to Access Your Disability Rights Training on Canadian Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and its Optional Protocol (OP) training aims to increase awareness of how to address discrimination using more familiar Canadian human rights laws such as Human Rights Codes and the newer international Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). This is training for persons with disabilities by persons with disabilities. The training is part of a project funded by Employment and Social Development Canada and implemented by the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) in collaboration with Canadian Multicultural Disability Centre Inc. (CMDCI), Citizens With Disabilities – Ontario (CWDO), Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities (MLPD) and National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS). Read more.
News from the CCD Annual General Meeting
CCD Has New Executive
At the Annual General Meeting (AGM) held in Winnipeg on 9 June 2012, the Council of Canadians with Disabilities elected a new Executive Committee:
- Tony Dolan, Chairperson
- Pat Danforth, 1st Vice Chair
- Steve Estey, 2nd Vice Chair
- Marc Workman, Secretary
- Anne McPhee, Treasurer
- Carmela Hutchison, Member at Large on Executive Committee
Committee Chairs
The CCD Council reappointed the following Committee chairs and co-chairs:
- Pat Danforth: Transportation Committee
- Steve Estey: International Development Committee
- Marie White: Social Policy Committee
- Dean Richert and Anne Levesque: Human Rights Committee
- Dean Richert and Rhonda Wiebe: Ending of Life Ethics Committee
- John Rae and Gary Birch: Access to Technology Committee
CCD Recognizes Leaders
During the Annual Meeting, Tony Dolan announced the following recipients of this year’s CCD Awards:
- Johanna Johnson, nominated by BCCPD
- Marlin Styner, nominated by ACCD
- Gayle Dixon, nominated by SK Voice
- Colleen Watters, nominated by MLPD
- Pierre-Yves Lévesque, nominated by COPHAN
- Louise Gillis, nominated by NS-LEO
- Peter Doucette, nominated by the PEI Council of People with Disabilities
- Leanne Gallant, nominated by the CAD
- Laurence Parent, nominated by the DAWN-RAFH Canada
- Eugène Leblanc, nominated by the NNMH
- Dominic Sigouin, nominated by TVAC
- Sylvain Bergeron, nominated by People First of Canada
- Christine Kelly and Erica Carson, nominated by CWD – O
- Sharlyn Ayotte, nominated by AEBC
- Karen Hollett, nominated by NWT Disabilities Council.