Nova Scotia Disability Rights are Human Rights
Vicky Levack among the first four young people with disabilities to move into apartments. (photo: Brian MacKay/CBC)
“‘It was not a genetic disease that took me out, it was a system,’ wrote Sathya Dhara Kovac, who had ALS” (photo: Submitted by Janine LeGal)
Take part in a community forum with international experts Eddie Bartnik and Tim Stainton. The forum is your opportunity to contribute to meaningful change in how people with disabilities are supported to live and thrive in their communities.
“When we see an excessive amount of prescribing for antipsychotics, where there’s no clinical reason or disease state to be prescribing it, that would be a flag,” (photo: Shane Hennessey)
The Disability Rights Coalition of Nova Scotia and the province have agreed that an independent expert should be brought in to advise both sides on reaching a common remedy for ongoing provincial discrimination against the disabled. (photo: Ryan Taplin)
Nova Scotia does not have a precise timeline for phasing out large institutional housing for people with disabilities, the deputy minister of the Department of Community Services told a legislature hearing Tuesday. (Jean Laroche/CBC)
In this stream of consciousness performance advocate Victoria Levack attempts to fill in the gaps and highlight the intersections between homelessness, the “Justice”system and ableism, or as she calls it the great circle of crap. With script assistance from Megan Linton and Alex Hall, TW: SA, suicide, Government violence and strong language 16+ audiences only
On the eve of the anniversary of the all-party endorsement of the “Roadmap” on equality for persons with disabilities in Nova Scotia, the Disability Rights Coalition (DRC) applauds the Premier for his government’s decision to abandon any attempt to justify the systemic discrimination found by this Province’s highest Court in October of 2021 against persons with disabilities.
Nine months later, now that the Province has abandoned its bid to justify the discrimination, the next step is a collaborative process to craft an effective and meaningful remedy that fixes the discriminatory government system.
The pages below will introduce you to the recent Human Rights Case in Nova Scotia:
This is the documentary The Freedom Tour of Nova Scotia (1:11 hours)
Media Coverage of EH Human Rights Complaint
The case is a legal discrimination complaint about the Province’s failure to treat people with disabilities in a way that ensures that all persons with disabilities are supported to live in community.