CBC: After a decade NS disability rights advocate finally allowed to move out of nursing home
Vicky Levack among the first four young people with disabilities to move into apartments. (photo: Brian MacKay/CBC)
CBC: Winnipeg woman who chose to die with medical assistance said struggle for home care help led to decision
“‘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)
NS Community Forum October 5, 2022
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.
CBC: More than 1 in 5 residents in long-term care given antipsychotics without diagnosis
“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)
Saltwire: Disability coalition, province agree to seek independent advice on discrimination remedy
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)
No timeline for closing N.S. institutions
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)
Musings of a Mad Woman – Halifax Fringe 2022
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
Media Release: DRC salutes the Premier for ‘doing the right thing’
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.
N.S. says it won’t try to justify housing discrimination against disabled people
A lawyer representing a disability rights group in Nova Scotia says he’s relieved the province won’t try to exempt itself from a court ruling that concluded the province discriminated against people with disabilities who were seeking housing.
Disability Rights Board of Inquiry Resumes
An independent human rights board of inquiry in the matter of Disability Rights Coalition of Nova Scotia, Beth MacLean, Sheila Livingstone and Joseph Delaney vs. the Province of Nova Scotia will continue Tuesday, July 12.
The board chair in this hearing is Donald Murray, who is independent of the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission.
The hearing will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the Holiday Inn Express, 980 Parkland Dr., Halifax. The proceedings will be livestreamed on this webapge.
