Fiona W-Walsh

Sociologist, scholar of disability and film and inclusive society, and a hip old granny

[Inclusion BC @InclusionBC]

https://t.co/wSFxKdQ8XD

[CCRW @CCRW]

🔨 Breaking Barriers in the Trades! 🔨

🚫 MYTH: People with disabilities create unsafe work environments in the trades.

✅ FACT: With appropriate accommodations & safety measures, persons with disabilities can work safely and effectively in trades just like their peers. 🛠️💪

[Inclusion BC @InclusionBC]

“In B.C., there are large differences between groups in educational outcomes...For example, 92% of all students complete secondary school in six years, but only 78% of students with disabilities and 75% of Indigenous students do the same”

https://t.co/vWXwy0FUZj

[KPU News @KPUmedia]

Former BC cabinet minister @Stephanie4BC received an Honorary Degree from @KwantlenU at the university’s June 12 convocation ceremony. Speaking to hundreds of graduates, Cadieux says she hopes to help Canada reimagine what accessibility is. @OCAO_BDPA_GC

[KPU News @KPUmedia]

🏆@Stephanie4BC, Chief Accessibility Officer for Canada and advocate for diversity, accessibility and inclusion, will receive a Doctor of Laws from
@KwantlenU today.

Read more: https://t.co/TQtElNIPGH

[Sarah Jama @SarahJama_]

The new Canadians with Disabilities Benefit (CDB) is inadequate at best.

It is clear that disabled people across Canada continue to be cast aside, neglected, and pushed into deeper poverty by both the Federal and Provincial Governments. Full statement below:

[Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽 @mssinenomine]

Barriers to care persist but access to MAiD keeps expanding: Dr Ramona Coelho
https://t.co/4Nsk8HeVtg

[Spencer van Vloten @SpencerVanCity]

No increases to PWD/income assistance for the poorest British Columbians.

The budget website lists all the new announcements, but for PWD/income assistance they just have a link to a 2022 press release under that section lol #bcpoli #vanpoli

https://t.co/tIPWM15IMD

[FreedomFiter @FreedomFiter786]

@CityNewsVAN The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) is also calling for @selinarobinson to resign
https://t.co/1hiEJVTByr

[CityNews Vancouver @CityNewsVAN]

The Federation of Post Secondary Educators is calling for the resignation of Post-Secondary Education Minister Selina Robinson, saying that she intervened in the termination of a Langara instructor over her comments about the ongoing war in Gaza. https://t.co/rGZZaXt6hf

[Alexander Raikin @AlexanderRaikin]

Canada is announcing a further delay before expanding MAiD for mental illness alone.

But if the health care system isn’t “ready” for MAiD as a treatment option for someone who is depressed, why is it ready for someone who is depressed + disabled?

https://t.co/uyqQHmfw9M

[IDC/BCANDS 🇨🇦 @BCANDS1]

It's Delayed
https://t.co/dn2HhlGHfO

[Trudo Lemmens @TrudoLemmens]

Cynical demagoguery Senator Kutcher, claiming government needs to give persons w mental illness access to the “same care”, that is—a remarkable recommendation for a former psychiatrist—a lethal injection https://t.co/yx72dGH5h9:

[Inclusion International @InclusionIntl]

“I want to learn how to do it well, for Valencianos, and more importantly, for those of us who have different abilities.”

Mar Galcerán makes history as Spain’s first parliamentarian with Down’s syndrome. A significant step toward real inclusion.

https://t.co/2tA39foVOm

[DAWN Canada @DAWNRAFHCanada]

Approaches to addressing sexual violence at multiple levels can include enhancing capacity of families, friends & caregivers; creating peer support; promoting inclusion; investing in intersectional supports; + challenging ableist attitudes through awareness. #16days @LNandKH

[Sonu Gaind @Psych_MD]

Excellent analysis by lawyers Mary Shariff @robsonhall & @derekbmross in @IRPP of Canada's #MAID #euthanasia expansion, & implicit devaluation of disabled lives

https://t.co/Yx7eBmenzN

[Avis Favaro @Avis_Favaro]

Long delays in getting children and youth help with anxiety, depression costs Canada $4B per year: report https://t.co/CvWAbU0Ze5 @CTVNews @AlexandraMaeJ @ChildHealthCan

[Vivre dans la Dignité / Living with Dignity @Vivredignite]

🇨🇦 ‼️ "The federal government is considering whether to pause its original plan to broaden the rules that govern medically assisted dying so they include patients whose only underlying condition is a mental disorder" TY @viraniarif.
#AMAD #cdnpoli #HoC #SenCA h/t @StephTaylorCP

[Mitchell Tremblay @ODSPoor]

I echo the call for @NDP to make the #Canadian #Disability #Benefit part of the supply and confidence agreement.

There are no homes left for us to afford, groceries last shorter, people with disabilities are going homeless and #MAiD coercion is real, being sold the fantasy of dying with dignity without the option of living with dignity first.

@theJagmeetSingh @BonitaZarrillo @MPJulian @LisaMarieBarron

#PWDrising #OW #PWD #ODSP #DERB #AISH #said #MAiD #cdnpoli #disability #neurodiverse #Neurodivergent #odspoverty #PWDallies #humanrights #un_enable #canpoli #follow #retweet #ontario #canada #disabilitytwitter #ableism #poverty #homelessness #hunger #canadiandisabilitybenefit

[Fiona W-Walsh @fwwalsh]

@OCAO_BDPA_GC @myKPU