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The Accessible Canada Act (ACA; French: Loi canadienne sur l'accessibilité) is a Canada-wide accessibility act that applies to the federal public sector, Crown corporations, and all federally-regulated organizations, [2] building on the Canadian Human Rights Act and focuses on the prohibition of discrimination based on disability.
The Ontarians with Disabilities Act is the short title of the Ontario government's Bill 125 - An Act to improve the identification, removal and prevention of barriers faced by persons with disabilities and to make related amendments to other Acts. The act received royal assent on 14 December 2001 and came into force on February 7, 2002.
Employment equity, as defined in federal Canadian law by the Employment Equity Act (French: Loi sur l’équité en matière d’emploi), requires federal jurisdiction employers to engage in proactive employment practices to increase the representation of four designated groups: women, people with disabilities, visible minorities, and Indigenous peoples. [1]
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen — who last year declared the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program illegal — said that the policy, which is set to proceed under new regulations at ...
A federal judge in Texas again ruled the DACA program for young immigrants raised in the U.S. is illegal but the program hasn't ended. Here are 4 things to know.
Ontario – Ontario Disability Support Program, which is run and maintained by the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services. The program offers income and employment assistance for disabled people and the Assistive Devices Program to provide funding to help pay the cost of assistive devices for people with long-term physical ...
More than 100,000 young immigrants protected by DACA will soon become eligible to receive federal healthcare coverage for the first time since the program was implemented over a decade ago.
A key organisation in supporting disabled people at the 1980 meeting was the Coalition of Provincial Organisations of the Handicapped, COPOH, a national organisation of disabled people in Canada. It was COPOH's policy that any post-trauma rehabilitation of disabled people should be for a limited period only, followed by independent living ...