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Disabling Poverty/Enabling Citizenship: End Exclusion 2010
Media Advisory
October 28, 2010
A Basic Income Plan for Canadians with Severe Disabilities
by Michael Mendelson, Ken Battle, Sherri Torjman and Ernie Lightman
November 2010
This report was commissioned by the Canadian Association for Community Living and the Council of Canadians with Disabilities.
Copyright © 2010 by The Caledon Institute of Social Policy
ISBN 1-55382-488-1
CCD Chairperson's Update- September 2010
CCD Addresses Challenging New Opportunities
Access to Technology
September 13, 2010
Hon. R. Nicholson
Minister of Justice
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0A6
nichor@parl.gc.ca
Dear Minister:
What does poverty look like in the disability community?
Through CCD's research project Disabling Poverty/Enabling Citizenship, Cam Crawford and Ernie Lightman have been undertaking research which will develop a clearer understanding of poverty as it is experienced by people with disabilities. Some preliminary findings from their research are as follows:
Report of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities Human Rights Committee's Litigation: 2009-2010
Since the spring of 2009, the CCD Human Rights Committee has been involved in four very important cases involving the interpretation of equality and persons with disabilities. This report provides a summary of the Committee's work regarding public interest litigation.
The factum (a legal brief that details the arguments put forward by CCD to the courts) for each case can be found on CCD's website www.ccdonline.ca
1. Peter Hughes and the Canadian Human Rights Commission v. Elections Canada
(CCD helps to secure victory on voting rights.)
END EXCLUSION 2010
The Council of Canadians with Disabilities and the Canadian Association for Community Living in partnership with Canada Without Poverty
Invite you to add your voice to a national dialogue on poverty and disability:
END EXCLUSION 2010
Disabling Poverty/Enabling Citizenship
Delta Ottawa Hotel, Ottawa, ON
November 1 & 2, 2010
Pharmacare central to preventing and eradicating poverty and the Premiers are acting on it
Media Release
September 15, 2010
CCD Chairperson's Update: July-August 2010
CCD's Summer Agenda
While the temperature was rising outside, CCD turned up the heat on a number of disability issues—data collection, poverty, and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
The Québec Act to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion: How Does it Tackle the Situation of People with Disabilities?
Study Conducted for the Community-University Research Alliances "Disabling Poverty and Enabling Citizenship"
by François Aubry in collaboration with Christiane Plamondon
with a foreword by Lucie Dumais and Yves Vaillancourt
June 2010
