Living In Place Campaign by ONT Older Women's Network

06/30/2026

Advocacy Is a Team Sport - How to Successfully Navigate Coalitions with Wendy Porch - Pt 2

Disability rights advocacy is often not something you will do on your own. You frequently work with others. Naturally, differences in opinion happen. That’s why learning to successfully navigate coalitions and build common ground are crucial for anyone involved in advocacy. Today’s guest, Wendy ...

06/29/2026

https://disability-rights-and-wrongs-the-david-lepodcast.simplecast.com/episodes/advocacy-is-a-team-sport-how-to-navigate-coalitions-with-wendy-porch-pt-1-NeHMCHtY

Disability rights advocacy is often not something you will do on your own. You frequently work with others. Naturally, differences in opinion happen. That’s why learning to successfully navigate coalitions and build common ground are crucial for anyone involved in advocacy. Today’s guest, Wendy ...

06/23/2026

The Accessible Housing Network made a submission to the National Housing Council's review panel on the lack of accessible housing in Canada.

06/16/2026

https://bsh.ubc.ca/the-right-to-accessible-housing-identifying-needs-and-building-the-right-supply/

This report examines the right to adequate housing for Canadians with disabilities, exploring gaps in legal protections, affordability, and accessible housing supply, and what must change.

06/16/2026

Sunnybrook Research Institute and the Canadian Centre for Housing Rights have authored a joint submission to the National Housing Council's review panel on the lack of accessible housing in Canada. The content was informed by disability rights advocates and lived experts.
https://housingrightscanada.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/CCHR-Sunnybrook-Joint-submission-3rd-Review-Panel.pdf
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- You can read and learn from it. It’s a thorough assessment of the state of accessible housing in Canada.

Joint submission from the Canadian Centre for Housing Rights and the Sunnybrook Research Institute

06/12/2026

Pressure Escalates on Metrolinx to Fix Accessibility Problems at New Eglinton Crosstown Transit Line

One week ago, the AODA Alliance made public an 8-minute online video that has now been seen over 1,300 times. It shows that Metrolinx designed the new Chaplin station based on an absurd decision that transit passengers with vision loss only need to know how to reach the station’s elevators, and not the stairs or escalators, when navigating large, irregularly laid-out stations.
This is but one of the troubling accessibility barriers in the design of the Eglinton Crosstown transit stations that hurt transit riders with a range of disabilities. Metrolinx had committed that all these new stations would be accessible.
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Pressure Escalates on Metrolinx to Fix Accessibility Problems at New Eglinton Crosstown Transit Line Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance Update United for a Barrier-Free Ontario for All People with Disabilities Website: www.aodaalliance.org Email: [email protected] Facebo...

06/05/2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syRJX0_n0p8

This video reveals a serious accessibility bungle for blind public ...

05/25/2026

A stage without a ramp
is a sermon
before anyone speaks.
It tells you, immediately,
whose voice was expected
to matter.

Whose body
was imagined holding the microphone.
Whose leadership
was considered normal enough
to plan for.
The stairs rise quietly,
but not innocently.

Architecture is belief
made visible.
Every inaccessible entrance
whispers:
we assumed the important people
could walk.
And maybe no one says it aloud.
Maybe they call it oversight,
budget limitations,
an old building.

But disabled people learn
how to translate omissions.
We know how often
absence means
you were never pictured here
to begin with.

So the wheelchair user
speaks from the floor.
The disabled singer declines the invitation.
The brilliant leader
stays in the audience
watching less qualified people
take the stage again.
And the world calls this coincidence
instead of design.
But imagine
what changes
when there is a ramp.

Not merely access—
expectation.
A declaration carved into steel:
we knew someone like you
would arrive.
We built this place
assuming
you belonged
at the center of it.

05/25/2026