Advocate slams Trudeau government for lack of child welfare services on reserves
OTTAWA—The Trudeau government is consciously discriminating against 163,000 children in its delivery of child welfare services on reserves, First Nations advocate Cindy Blackstock said Thursday as a human rights tribunal issued a second compliance order on the issue. Blackstock — executive director of an organization that together with the Assembly of First Nations spent nine […]
Ottawa hit with new compliance order over child welfare services on reserve
The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has issued a second compliance order against the Trudeau government related to the delivery of child welfare services on reserve. Cindy Blackstock – the executive director of an organization that spent nine years fighting the case along with the Assembly of First Nations – says the tribunal’s findings point to […]
Negative reaction to Liberal’s disability bus pass increase
25 year old Brandon Charmley has physical and developmental disabilities and relied heavily on a bus pass he used to get around Nanaimo, including to his job at Frank Crane arena. However he gave up his bus pass on September 1st, deciding not to pay the new $52 a month fee, replacing the previous annual […]
BC NDP CRITIC SCOLDS LIBERALS OVER BUS PASS FEE HIKE
The Social Development Critic for the BC NDP is scolding the Christy Clark government over the recent bus pass fee for disabled residents. The province began charging the new fee on September 1st after raising the disability assistance rates to $983 per month which was the first increase in 9 years. Michelle Mungall believes the […]
Disabled Victims of Mass Killing in Japan Are Kept in the Shadows
ZAMA, Japan — A vicious knife attack killed his roommate at a facility for the developmentally disabled in July, but Kazuya Ono does not know that. Mr. Ono, 43, survived slashes to his throat and stomach by the attacker, a former caregiver at the group home, and remains in a hospital nearby. When he is […]
Quit job or put son in foster care
A frustrated south Okanagan father is speaking publicly about his plight in hopes of finding a solution to what he calls an unfair and difficult ultimatum. Kaleden resident and father of three, Brody Bailey, says he’s faced with the option of either quitting his job or giving up his youngest son, Oden Bailey, to foster […]
Deaf man’s human rights case against B.C. settled, but problem persists
Christopher Shay, a deaf man, has settled a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal complaint with the Ministry of Social Development alleging discrimination for delaying an application for income assistance. Sarah Khan, right, a lawyer with the B.C. Public Interest Advocacy Centre, says the ministry has agreed to make changes to help people with disabilities. Read the […]
Province-wide protests mark day of increase in BC disability benefits
After nearly a decade, B.C. is increasing government assistance to people with disabilities. Beginning Thursday (September 1), people on disability benefits will receive $77 more per month. However, not all of the 100,000 British Columbians on disability assistance will get the full amount. Because the province is taking back most of that money for transportation, […]
BC Disability Rate go up September 1
As a net effect, then, people who choose to use transit will have their $52 per month pass deducted from the $77 increase, leaving transit users with only a $25 per month rate increase. CBC News Story
Disability Benefits Cut by Bus Pass Expense
Sheenagh Morrison will get her first raise in nearly a decade Thursday and the B.C. government will take most of it back the same day. After nine years of living on $906 a month, the 35-year-old Victoria woman will see her monthly disability cheque increase by $77. The same day, however, the B.C. government will start […]