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CCD Chairperson's Update - November 2012

CCD Celebrates Increased Funding for People First of Canada

We All Are People With Disabilities: You Are Us

Press Release
December 3, 2012, International Day of Persons with Disabilities
For Immediate Release

A Voice of Our Own: Fall 2012

On the CCD Agenda:
 

Member Group Updates:
 

CCD Chairperson's Update - Special Edition

Launching CCD’s Help to Live, Not Die Campaign

CCD Chairperson's Update - Special Edition

Moore v. Her Majesty the Queen in Right of the Province of British Columbia as represented by the Ministry of Education and the Board of Education School District No. 44
(North Vancouver)

Summary of Key Points

The Supreme Court of Canada Decision

Did you know…

Fact Sheet

Did you know…

that in 1981 Canada appointed an all-party House of Commons Committee to identify the challenges related to disability and to propose recommendations for change.

Did you know…

that this was the first time such an exhaustive inventory has been undertaken on disability.

The Moore Case: Summary of Key Points

Moore v. Her Majesty the Queen in Right of the Province of British Columbia
as represented by the Ministry of Education and the Board of Education School District No. 44 (North Vancouver)

 

The Supreme Court of Canada Decision

DPI Peace Statement

Disabled people all over the world know from their deepest personal experience, the capacity of war to cast its mantle of death and destruction over life and limb. The ability of modern weapons of war to devastate a people, to sear human memory with permanent scars of personal tragedy, to shatter the dreams and hopes of children, to maim and injure, is nowhere more eloquently proclaimed than here, the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima.

The Welfarization of Disability Programs

On 22 March 2012, John Stapleton spoke at a workshop entitled "People with disabilities living in poverty: why are the numbers going up?" In his address, John examined the patchwork of programs that make up the social safety net in Canada for people with disabilities.

 

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