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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.
CCD Chairperson's Update: June 2011
CCD Annual General Meeting
CCD held its Annual General Meeting in June in Winnipeg at the Victoria Inn hotel.
Appointment of Committee Chairs
The National Council of Representatives appointed the following people to chair CCD’s committees:
• Steve Estey, Chairperson of the CCD International Development Committee
• Dean Richert and Anne Levesque, Co-chairs of the CCD Human Rights Committee
• Marie White, Chairperson of the CCD Social Policy Committee
• Pat Danforth, Chairperson of the CCD Transportation Committee
• John Rae and Gary Birch, Co-chairs of the CCD Access to Technology Committee
• Rhonda Wiebe and Dean Richert Co-chairs of the CCD Ending of Life Ethics Committee.
CCD Award
Tony Dolan announced the recipients of the CCD Award:
BCCPD: Heather Morrison
ACCD: Lois Hardy
SVOPD: Bev Duncan
MLPD: Gail Finkel and Ainley Bridgeman (posthumously)
CWD-O: Donna Jodhan
COPHAN: Jean-Marie Grenier
PEI Council: Joe Vriends
COD-NL: Cyril Peach
PEOPLE FIRST: Peter Bourne
NNMH: Keith Anderson
TVAC: Suzie Yelle
CAD: Wayne Sinclair
DAWN: Shelly Breau
AEBC: Robin East
NWT Council: Fleurette Spreen
CCD Annual Report
Please visit the About section of the CCD Web site to view our Annual Report.