Category: Disability News
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Designing an Accessible Classroom Conference
On March 29th, I and six other students organized the Ableism in the Classroom conference, the first to bring together students, faculty and staff on the issue of accessibility. Despite the challenges and stress behind the scenes before and during the conference, it was a success! I’m deeply grateful to my team for starting a…
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Canada Disability Benefit: Share Your Ideas
The Government of Canada is consulting with Canadians on the new Disability Benefit: Here is why you should participate. “According to the 2017 Canadian Survey on Disability, 58 per cent of Ontarians withdisabilities aged 25 to 64 years were employed – well below the 81 per cent level for theircontemporaries without disabilities.” As stated by…
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Captions, Films & Individualism Culture
When my “Wakanda Forever & Haiti” article went viral as the number 1 most viewed article on The Varsity’s website, I was a tad bit annoyed that it would be that article of all articles to gain 23 K views, as it was supposed to be my fluff article, in compared to my serious disability…
Catherine CC Dumé 