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This is why the Government of Canada is committed to developing new planned accessibility legislation to promote equality of opportunity and increase the inclusion and participation of Canadians who have disabilities or functional limitations.
http://www.esdc.gc.ca/en/consu
A Smiths Falls, Ont. mother is celebrating after reaching a human rights settlement with the Ontario government to keep her adult son, who has Down syndrome, living independently after they were told he’d have to move to a long-term care facility.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/
“Doctors don’t find it easy to say ‘I don’t know.’ There’s a tradition of knowing the answers and coming up with them quickly,” says Dr. Ivan Silver, VP of Education at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto.
A person without a disability may recognize someone using a wheelchair, a guide dog or a prosthetic limb, or someone with Down syndrome, but most don’t conceptualize these people as having a shared social identity and a political status. “They” merely seem to be people to whom something unfortunate has happened, for whom something has gone terribly wrong. The one thing most people do know about being disabled is that they don’t want to be that.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08
“A concussion is more a mild form of traumatic brain injury in which the brain is exposed to abnormal forces that result in transient neurological dysfunction,” Ellis says. “But ‘mild traumatic brain injury’ is a bit of a misnomer.”
http://www.winnipegfreepress.c
The system is in need of an overhaul. When the same driver driving the same car pays a 50 per cent higher premium for living across the street, there’s something wrong. The insurance companies will suggest that across the street has more accidents. That’s not the reason the rates are higher.
https://www.thestar.com/opinio
You have two years from the date of denial to sue the insurance company. It’s the law, plain and simple. If you don’t sue within two years from the date of denial, there is a very good chance that your case will get dismissed for failing to commence your claim within time.
There is no denying that we live in a new age of social media, where expressing your inner most thoughts and personal feelings to an online audience is just plain normal.
While it may be tempting to speak out about the trials and tribulations you encounter with your ex spouse following the breakdown of your relationship, airing your frustrations online can cost you a whole lot more than you think …
http://wiselaw.blogspot.ca/201
With lingering symptoms from a brain injury, I found myself in my late 20s living with a complex chronic illness. In many ways I had to start over. I traded a life that I loved for solitude.
The Ontario Court of Appeal recently revisited the issue of the deductibility of no-fault accident benefits from an award for tort damages. In Basandra v. Sforza, 2016 ONCA 251, the Plaintiff brought an action for damages arising from injuries he sustained in a car accident. Before the trial of the tort action, he settled his accident benefits claim for the following amounts: