Filed under: Inclusive Hiring, Youth Success, Youth Success Strategy Reading time: 6:30 | Posted by Dr. Jennifer Crowson, PhD Photography courtesy Hilary Gauld | One for the Wall Photography and Canadian Down Syndrome Society Did you know that in 2022, 27% of Canadians aged 15 and older had at least one disability? That amounts to…
Ableism. It happens in workplaces, in communities and in society in general, every day. Maybe you have lived experience facing it. Or maybe you’ve practised it, without consciously realizing it. In this episode, we get a perspective on disrupting ableism in the workplace: Why it’s happening, its many forms, its impact and what can, and…
In our Season 5 opener, the two guests who were with us on our 2023 season opener, are back to give us an update on year one of the Inclusive Design for Employment Access initiative, or IDEA for short. A quick recap: IDEA is a six-year research project being done with $9 million of federal…
Canada is known as “Hollywood North.” That’s because so many television shows and series, and theatrical and television films have been, and are filmed, in this country. They include Supernatural, Schitt’s Creek, Hudson and Rex, Deadpool, Star Trek Beyond, Star Trek Discovery and Hot Zone: Anthrax. According to figures from the Motion Picture Association, film…
Disability is the world’s largest minority group — one that all of us will likely join at some point in our lives. According to World Health Organization figures, 1.3 billion people globally have a disability. People who have a disability are just regular people, living their every-day lives one day at a time…like all…
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month. So we thought, what better time to launch a new, occasional series we’re calling, Making the Journey. It’s a fitting title for this series. Because when a business leader or owner makes the conscious decision to become intentional about disability inclusion in their organization, it really is a…
Filed under Disability Awareness & Confidence, Inclusive Hiring, NDEAM Reading time: 6 min. | Posted by Dean Askin October’s a few days behind us now. There’s a winter chill in the air. National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) and our annual NDEAM campaign is over for another year. Now it’s time to keep the conversation…
477 locations in 140 communities across all 10 provinces, and in 2 territories, shone purple and blue light on disability awareness Thursday night (Editors and writers note: the final list of locations and communities that participated in Light It Up! For NDEAM 2023 is attached at the end of this news release.) Whitby, ON, Friday,…
Filed under Disability Awareness & Confidence, Inclusive Hiring Reading time: 6 min. | Posted by Dean Askin | Part two in a two-part series Making the disability inclusion connections to business and employment success is a three-stage process. First, there’s grasping all the intertwined levels of connection. Second, there’s understanding the inter-related barriers to…
Filed under Disability Awareness & Confidence Reading time: 5 min. | Guest post by Wayne Connell One of the most important things to grasp about disability, is that disability is diverse. Some disabilities are visible. But the most common ones are invisible. So what exactly is an invisible disability? Is it a specific illness or…
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