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LANDMARK CANADIAN HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL RULING REQUIRES POLLING STATIONS TO BE ACCESSIBLE TO VOTERS WITH DISABILITIES IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS
AODA Alliance Calls on All Parties to Strengthen Bill 231 to Prevent More Inaccessible Elections in Ontario
Inaccessible Toronto Polling Station in February 4, 2010 Provincial By-election Highlights Urgent Need for Strong Provincial Legislation to Ensure Accessible Provincial and Municipal Elections
Accessibility for Ontarians With Disabilities Act Alliance Chair’s 2009 Year-end Report
McGuinty Government Introduces Bill 231 into Legislature to Reform Provincial Elections – AODA Alliance Calls for Stronger Disability Accessibility Provisions
McGuinty Government Passes Legislation to Make Municipal Elections Barrier-free for Voters and Candidates With Disabilities – But Rejects AODA Alliance Proposals Needed to Make the Bill Strong and Effective
Ontario Government Inadequately Responds to AODA Alliance Proposals to Ensure Public Funds Not Used to Create or Perpetuate Barriers Against Ontarians With Disabilities
AODA Alliance Submits Final Brief To Charles Beer On Reforming The AODA And Its Implementation
McGuinty Government Responds to AODA Alliance Inquiries on its Plans for Implementing the AODA – Much Still Remains Unclear
The McGuinty Government has Done Little to Keep 2007 Election Promise on Educating Students and Professional Trainees on Disability Accessibility
Send us Your Feedback on our Draft Brief on the Final Proposed Information and Communication Accessibility Standard
Change of Date for Ottawa Public Forum for Charles Beer Indedendent Review of AODA - and Other News
Downloadable copies of the final proposed Information and Communication Accessibility Standard
New Information and Some Changed Dates for Charles Beer’s Public Forums on How to Improve the AODA
Sign Up For The Charles Beer Independent Review’s Public Forums On How Well Ontario’s Accessibility Legislation Is Working
Send Us Your Feedback on our Draft Brief on How to Improve the AODA, for the Charles Beer AODA Independent Review
Plan Ahead To Give The Charles Beer Independent Review of the AODA Your Feedback – Preliminary Schedule for his Fall Public Forums
AODA Alliance Presents Brief On Barriers To Voting To Legislature’s Select Committee On Elections – Select Committee Report Acknowledges Need For Solutions
Excerpts of the Select Committee on Election's June 2009 Report on Modernizing Ontario Elections Legislation
Read the AODA Alliance's Brief to the Select Committee on Elections
Read the AODA Alliance's April 28, 2009 Deposition to the Ontario Legislature's Select Committee on Elections
Download the Initial Proposed Built Environment Accessibility standard as an MS Word file
AODA Alliance Writes Three Cabinet Ministers, To Learn What The Ontario Government Has Done To Keep Premier’s 2007 Election Pledge On Teaching School Students And Professional Trainees About Disability Accessibility
Is The Ontario Government Ensuring That No Tax Dollars Are Used To Create Barriers Against People With Disabilities?
AODA Alliance Submits Brief To Charles Beer Recommending How To Conduct His Independent Review Of The AODA 2005
Attend June 23, 2009 Toronto Transit Commission Public Forum to Give Feedback on Accessibility Needs of Passengers With Disabilities
McGuinty Government Launches Independent Review of AODA’s Effectiveness
Tell the Ontario Government if you Support the AODA Alliance Brief on the Initial Proposed Employment Accessibility Standard
Fourth Anniversary of Unanimous Passage of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act – How is the AODA Working So Far?
Chinese Government Delegation Consults AODA Alliance on Disability Accessibility
Send Us Your Feedback on Our Draft Brief to the Ontario Government on the Initial Proposed Employment Accessibility Standard
Initial Proposed Employment Accessibility Standard
Please Tell the Ontario Government if You Support the AODA Alliance’s Brief on the Final Proposed Transportation Accessibility Standard
AODA Alliance Seeks Your Feedback on its Draft Brief on the Final Proposed Transportation Accessibility Standard
Ontario Government Seeks Public Feedback on the Final Proposed Transportation Accessibility Standard, Proposed by the Transportation Standards Development Committee
David Lepofsky Becomes New Chair of AODA Alliance
AODA Alliance’s Brief to Standing Committee on Government Agencies Reveals Broken Government Commitments on Reforms to Human Rights Enforcement
AODA Alliance Tells Legislature’s Standing Committee That Most New Discrimination Claimants at the Human Rights Tribunal Have No Lawyer, and that Bill 107 Just Shuffled the Human Rights Caseload Backlog from the Human Rights Commission to the Human Rights Tribunal
Download this MS Word version of the AODA Alliance's February 6, 2009 Brief to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, concerning the Ontario Legislature's Standing Committee on Government Agencies
Please Endorse the AODA Alliance's Brief on the Initial Proposed Information and Communication Accessibility Standard
AODA Alliance Delegation Presents Recommendations To Improve AODA’s Implementation To Community And Social Services Minister
What Steps Is The McGuinty Government Taking To Keep Its 2007 Election Promise Of An Action Plan For Accessible Elections?
Please Give Us Your Feedback On The AODA Alliance’s Draft Brief On The Proposed Information And Communication Accessibility Standard
Please Give The McGuinty Government Your Feedback On The Proposed New Information And Communication Accessibility Standard
Toronto Star Guest Column Marks Important 10-year Anniversary in Campaign for Barrier-Free Ontario and Calls for Renewed Government Action
Upcoming 10th Anniversary of Major Event in the Long Campaign for Strong Disability Accessibility Legislation
Is The Ontario Government on Schedule to Making Ontario Fully Accessible for People with Disabilities by 2025?
AODA Alliance Holds Joint Queen's Park News Conference on the June 30, 2008 Launch of Bill 107's Privatization of Human Rights Enforcement - Unveiling List of the McGuinty Government's 10 Commitments on what Bill 107 Will Give You, and Internal Government Documents Casting Doubt on Whether it will Deliver on these Promises
Download the Human Rights Commission’s organization chart (MS Word format).

Download the Human Rights Legal Support Centre’s organization chart (PDF format).

To download the Human Rights Tribunal’s organization chart (MS Word format).
Presentations at July 2, 2008 Queen's Park News Conference
Ten Key Government Commitments on Bill 107 Human Rights Reform
Listen to the June 13, 2008 Panel on Bill 107's Implementation with AODA Alliance's David Lepofsky and Executive Director of the Human Rights Legal Support Centre, Kathy Laird, at a Toronto Conference of Community Living Ontario (MP3 format)
Enjoy David Lepofsky’s Carole Riback Memorial Lecture on Effective Advocacy on disability Issues
Tell The Human Rights Tribunal If You Support our Proposals On The Tribunal's Proposed Accessibility Policy
Human Rights Tribunal Finally Announces its Final Rules of Procedure for Handling Human Rights Cases, Rejecting Most AODA Alliance Recommendations
What Will Happen To The 4,000 Discrimination Cases At The Ontario Human Rights Commission On June 30, 2008 When Bill 107 Goes Into Operation?
Toronto Transit Commission Ordered To Hold Public Forum On Meeting Needs Of Passengers With Disabilities – Upcoming May 20 TTC Forum A Good Model For All Ontario Transit Authorities To Follow
Toronto Star Guest Column Details Problems With Human Rights Tribunal’s Proposed New Rules For Discrimination Cases
Human Rights Commission Releases Report On Transit Authorities’ Steps To Announce Bus Stops – Will The Human Rights Commission Take Prompt Action To Enforce The Law For The Minority Of Ontario Transit Authorities Who Are Foot-dragging About Obeying The Law?
Eight Weeks Before Bill 107 Goes Into Full Operation, Is The New Human Rights Enforcement System Ready For Day One?
Email The Human Rights Tribunal To Support The AODA Alliance Brief Regarding The Tribunal’s Proposed Rules Of Procedure
Human Rights Tribunal’s Proposed New Rules Would Erect Barriers Impeding Discrimination Victims From Access To Justice, and Give Tribunal Sweeping, Excessive Powers – Please Endorse Concerns Raised In The New AODA Alliance Brief
Viewing The 2008 Ontario Budget Through A Disability Lens How Does It Look?
Several Sarnia City Councillors Oppose Announcing All Bus Stops to Accommodate Vision Impaired Passengers
Human Rights Tribunal Refuses To Publicize Or Extend Its Consultation On Its Proposed New Rules Of Procedure For The General Public –But Gives The AODA Alliance A Special Extension
Human Rights Tribunal Consults on Important New Rules for Enforcing Human Rights - But Who Even Knows This Consultation is Going On?
McGuinty Government’s Fall 2007 Toronto Public Meeting on Human Rights Reform Reveals Serious Problems with Bill 107’s Implementation
Ontario Government Consultant’s Study on Effectiveness of Standards Development Committees Misses Key Problems with Flawed Implementation of the AODA
Transportation Standards Development Committee’s Chair Agrees to Abide by McGuinty Government Election Pledge to Ensure Equal Representation of Disability Community when Developing Proposed Transportation Accessibility Standard
Transportation Standards Development Committee Chair Urges McGuinty Government To Break Its Election Commitment To Ontarians With Disabilities - Signals Troubling Resistance To Strengthening The Weak Proposed Transit Accessibility Standard
Human Rights Tribunal Imposes Substantial Orders Against the Toronto Transit Commission to Make Transit Services More Accessible to Passengers with Vision Impairments - But What Will It Take to Get All Other Ontario Transit Providers to Obey the Human Rights Code?
McGuinty Government’s Throne Speech Commits to Implementing AODA
Further Details on Government's Information Sessions on Bill 107's Privatization of Human Rights Enforcement
Some Serious Concerns about Human rights Tribunal's Proposed New Interim Rules of Procedure
Attend and Raise Questions at Government's November Public Meetings on Changes to Human Rights Enforcement
Why Has The Ontario Government's Development of Accessibility Standards Under The AODA Been So Ineffective So Far?
Bits and Pieces of News on the Accessibility Front, in the Aftermath of Last Week's Ontario Election
Ontario's New Lieutenant Governor Challenges All Ontarians to take Strong, Effective Action to make Ontario Barrier-Free for People With Disabilities
Re-Elected Ontario Government Makes Important Election Commitments to Ontarians With Disabilities
Learn About the 2007 Ontario Election's Disability Accessibility Issues
More Media on Election's Disability Accessibility Issues
AODA Alliance Writes Elections Ontario in Pursuit of Barrier-Free Election
Please Read and Circulate The Toronto Star's Guest Column on the Ontario Election's Disability Accessibility Issues
Point by Point Comparison of the Three Parties' Commitments on this Election's Disability Accessibility Issues
Update: One Day Left to Send the Ontario Government Your Feedback on Proposed Transportation Accessibility Standard - And Other News
How You Can Help Raise Disability Accessibility Issues in This Election in 15 Minutes or Less!
How To Help Raise Disability Accessibility Issues in this Election - Read Our 2007 Election Action Kit
Attend an All-Candidates Debate on Disability Issues
Liberal Party Writes AODA Alliance with Election Commitments Regarding Disability Accessibility
McGuinty Government's New Customer Service Accessibility Standard is Weak and Ineffective
Listen to AODA Alliance member David Lepofsky`s September 7, 2007 Interview Concerning the Election`s Disability Issues on CBC Radio 1`s Here and Now Program
NDP and Conservatives Make Written Election Commitments to AODA Alliance - Unveiled at September 7, 2007 AODA Alliance Queen's Park News Conference
Human Rights Commission Slams McGuinty Government's Weak Proposed Transportation Accessibility Standard for Falling Well Below Human Rights Code Requirements.
McGuinty Government Quietly Proclaims Bill 107 In Force On Election Campaign`s Eve, Before Solving Key Problems With Its Implementation -- Human Rights Enforcement Weakened And Privatized
Ontario Government Extends Time for Giving Feedback on Weak Proposed Transportation Accessibility Standard as Community Criticism of that Proposed Standard Mounts
Ontario Political Parties Asked to Make Election Commitments on Disability Accessibility
Tell the Ontario Government If You Support The AODA Alliance's Brief on the Proposed Transportation Accessibility Standard
AODA Alliance Seeks your Feedback on Draft Submission on Government's Proposed Transportation Accessibility Standard.
AODA Alliance Seeks Your Input On Upcoming Ontario Election And On Proposed Transit Accessibility Standard
What does Ontario's March 22, 2007 budget include for accessibility for Ontarians with disabilities?