Global: NS lagging behind on disability support
Global News: Nova Scotia lagging behind on disability support commitments: researcher.
CBC: NS ‘remedy’ to move people too slow, says monitor
An independent monitor says Nova Scotia’s progress on moving people with disabilities out of institutions is “slower and more uneven” than called for in a government plan.
Expert Monitor Finds Province’s Remedy Flawed
On July 31st, the Human Rights Remedy’s independent Expert Monitor, Dr. Michael Prince, of the University of Victoria, released his Annual Report on the Province’s compliance with its legal obligations in eliminating the systemic discrimination against persons with disabilities in Nova Scotia in accessing community-based supports.
Province Fails to Properly Implement the Human Rights Remedy in Year 1
The Disability Rights Coalition is expressing profound disappointment with the Province’s progress in implementing a Human Rights Board of Inquiry Order to Remedy the systemic discrimination against persons with disabilities in Nova Scotia.
CBC: NS progress report undermined by blown deadline, says disability rights advocate
A disability rights advocate is raising questions about the Nova Scotia government’s assertion Monday that it is making substantial progress in implementing a five-year plan to ensure people with disabilities receive better support.
Remedy question in NS Legislature
As Year 1 of the Human Rights Remedy ended on March 31, 2024, here’s a two-minute exchange in the Nova Scotia legislature from March 27th about whether the Province was actually going to carry out its legal obligation to adopt a DSP Policy—by March 31, 2024
Disability Rights Coalition NS Welcomes Premier’s Apology
The DRC welcomes the Premier’s apology to persons with disabilities as an important first step towards reconciliation with a community whose members have experienced extreme forms of systemic discrimination over decades. This important gesture by the Premier comes at a key moment as the Province moves toward addressing & ending its practices and policies that lead to the discriminatory treatment.
Halifax Examiner: ‘The sun is duller today’: remembering Jen Powley
Jen Powley, author and advocate for people with disabilities, has died. She was 45. [photo: contributed]
Systemic Human Rights Remedy Ordered
Having filed its human rights claim in 2014, the Disability Rights Coalition is very happy to report that we have achieved what we feel is a tremendous remedy to the systemic discrimination found by the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal in October 2021.
On June 28, 2023, the human rights Board of Inquiry approved an Interim Consent Order, which will start a step by step 5 year plan for the government to end the systemic discrimination of persons with disabilities in their access to social assistance including supports and services to live in community.
Agreement approved to remedy long-term discrimination against disabled Nova Scotians
A settlement agreement has been approved in the case of the province’s systemic discrimination against disabled Nova Scotians, stipulating the closure over the next five years of all institutions for people with disabilities. [photo: Ryan Taplin]
