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The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (AODA) is a statute enacted in 2005 by the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in Canada. Its purpose is to improve accessibility standards for Ontarians with physical and mental disabilities to all public establishments by 2025.
On February 8, 2010, NRPC announced it reached an agreement (awaiting court approval) with Nortel in which Nortel would advance $57 million to fund medical and life insurance benefits for some Canadian pensioners and their survivors, and provide long-term disabled employees with wage-replacement, medical and life insurance benefits until ...
The Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) [1] is a means-tested government-funded last resort income support paid for qualifying residents in the province of Ontario, Canada, who are at least eighteen years of age and have a disability. [2] ODSP and Ontario Works (OW) [3] are the two main components of Ontario's social assistance system.
CILT hosts the Parenting with a Disability Network. [6] [7] In 2019, CILT co-sponsored a campaign to draw attention to the way in which people with disabilities are excluded from common activities. [8] [4] In 2021, CILT's executive director became the inaugural chair of the Toronto Accessibility Task Force on COVID-19. [5]
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Like in the United States, welfare in Canada colloquially refers to direct payments to low-income individuals only, and not to healthcare and education spending. [2] It is rarely used in Canada as the name of any specific program, however, because of its negative connotations. (In French, it is commonly known as le bien-être social or l'aide ...
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.
Facing low approval ratings in part due to the cost of living crisis, signs were mounting that Canadians had lost faith in the Liberal Party, which Trudeau has led as prime minister since 2015 ...