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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.
Jim Flaherty Champion of Canadians with Disabilities Dies
April 10, 2014
For Immediate Release
The disability community in Canada has lost a true champion with the death of the Hon. Jim Flaherty. CCD extends our condolences to his family. As one of Canada’s longest serving Ministers of Finance Jim Flaherty never forgot or ignored the needs of Canadians with disabilities. Even during the most difficult of economic times in 2008, Minister Flaherty kept disability issues on the agenda and he continued to move forward initiatives that would address the disproportionate poverty of Canadians with disabilities. He will be missed in our community. He made a difference.
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Contact:
Tony Dolan, CCD National Chairperson Tel: 902 569-2817 cel 902 626-1752
Laurie Beachell, CCD National Coordinator Tel: 204 947-0303 cel 204 981-6179
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