Congratulations 🎊 to MA graduate Anna-Karina Tabuñar @tabunarak for her MA research @CU_History on the history long COVID rehabilitation @OttawaHospital- first graduate of the MA specialization in Accessibility. @CUAccessibility
📣 NEXT WEEK📣
Tues April 4 at 12pm ET / 9am PT
Rabia Khedr and Michelle Hewitt will host a fireside chat about the #CanadaDisabilityBenefit
Get an update on Bill C-22 and the challenges that lie ahead.
To register:
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Just under one week to apply to be OCTEVAW’s next executive director! If you are committed to preventing gender-based violence through community, system, and policy change - we’d love to hear from you! #hiring#ottjobs#endgbv#endvaw
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.@DrSueDojeiji my pleasure and honour. Love the way you teach med students that #Disability is NOT a personal defect/deficiency that needs fixing, and the importance of listening to your patients. Eager for our sequel.
To all the disabled people out there who might be struggling with self-worth today, remember that you are loved and you brilliant and you are beautiful.
Ableism has nothing on you.
All of Canada needs to stop what they are doing, spare a thought for the child whose jawbone was found on the grounds of the Qu’Appelle Indian Residential School in Lebret, Saskatchewan. Bone is about 125 years old, Sask coroner says. Child was btwn 4 to 6 years. @fsinations
I don’t know who needs to hear this but Neil Diamond, who retired from performing five years ago because of Parkinsons, just had a Broadway show of him open and it at the opening night he did this
Join us for a Fireside Chat with @tabunarak where Canadian business leaders can learn about #workplace barriers experienced by employees at the intersection of #race and #disability and how to ensure a successful employment experience. #intersectionality
https://t.co/qLf6OEtxxD
2/2 When that #accessible ride already has a wheelchair in the 1 wheelchair space....what do you do?
You miss your meeting. You call and complain. Will it make a difference? Asking you @OC_Transpo@_MarkSutcliffe @JLeiper #WeCanDoBetter#Equity
BREAKING: Indigenous lifegiver forced to deliver baby alone as nurses watched in an Edmonton hospital, resulting in infants death. Deceased daughter referred to as a “specimen”
Join us for a Fireside Chat with @tabunarak where Canadian business leaders can learn about #workplace barriers experienced by employees at the intersection of #race and #disability and how to ensure a successful employment experience. #intersectionality
https://t.co/qLf6OEtxxD
I’m demanding systemic change @AirCanada. I’m demanding air travel reform to protect the rights and safety of people with disabilities.
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There are a lot of people led to believe that getting COVID multiple times is equivalent to getting “colds”, that reinfections “boost your immunity”. It’s all false. All of it.
Not only should you avoid any infection, but here’s a quick 🧵 on reinfections
My cousin had to return to in-person work, got COVID from her boss, and passed away today. She leaves behind 13-year old twin girls, a husband, a mother who will now have to bury her last surviving child, and family who will forever miss her smile. The pandemic is not over.