NS Budget Provisions for Those on Social Assistance
The NS Provincial Budget (March 23, 2023) impacts the Nova Scotia government benefits available for people in receipt of social assistance.
Disability Debunked #2: How the media portrays people with disabilities
CBC Information Morning: Disability advocate and educator Vicky Levack joins us with part two of her new series. In today’s episode she’s asking people to put away their stereotypes, especially the ones propagated by the media. Produced by Podstarter for the CBC Creator Network.
Disability & the fight for human rights: Poverty and MAID
Explore the codependency of poverty, disability and violence, and the rise in the suggestion and perception of MAID as a solution to poverty. By Nova Scotia Action Coalition for Community Well-Being.
Systemic Human Rights Remedy reviewers release update
January 2023: Eddie Bartnik and Tim Stainton, independent reviewers, release an update on their work towards a systemic human rights remedy to end the discrimination against persons with disabilities as found by the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal.
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)
