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Canada Disability Benefit
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is a charitable research institute and Canada’s leading source of progressive policy ideas, whose work is rooted in the…
It’s time for the Canada Disability Benefit
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On International Day of Persons with Disabilities, it’s past time to lift people with disabilities out of poverty
“Allowances” trap institutionalized Canadians in deep poverty
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It’s time for governments to address policy that forces disabled people in residential institutions to live in misery
The Senate should adopt Bill C-22
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Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology by CCPA senior researcher Katherine Scott
Grow through what you go through
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Addressing and sorting through the Freedom Convoy’s wreckage is a job that belongs to all white people in Canada.
Settler Work: Equity and safety gaps in Canada’s public transit systems
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Exploring the structural, organizational and systemic barriers to equitable public transit service, using the Thunder Bay system as a case study.
Does the Liberal-NDP pact signal a new Pearsonian phase?
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What the new agreement gets right—and where there’s room to go bolder
An equitable recovery for Para Transpo
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Para Transpo assumes that para riders’ time is not valuable, that they have few important obligations and that their lives should be limited due to mobility and accessibility needs.
Nova Scotia’s homecare system needs more public funding and oversight
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The province has a long way to go in improving its homecare infrastructure
Access after COVID-19: How disability culture can transform life and work
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The COVID-19 crisis has revealed the necessity of changing people’s taken-for-granted understandings of disability, to provoke a transformation in how people perceive living with disability and difference.
Pandemic living on the margins
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Disabled Canadians have been sidelined from—and by—many COVID-19 response measures. How can we learn from this experience to build greater equity going forward?
People with disabilities last in line
October 30th is the day that people with disabilities will begin to receive a one-time payment of $600 in recognition of the significant increase…
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