This will not be a pleasant post. I’m angry. I read, today, about a 13 year old boy who committed suicide because of years and years of homophobic bullying. Most of his life he was tortured by social violence. Bullying is social violence. Understand that. It’s an act of violence that happens, rarely, in private. […]
I was accused recently of being a snob. This surprised me as I’m used to thinking of myself as amongst the snubbed. a Snubbee not a snubbor. But I need to be open to feedback so I asked what I had done that made me appear snobbish. The answer, when I heard it, didn’t really […]
Want to get fit but assume using a personal trainer would be out because of your disability? We talk to Dom Thorpe, a personal trainer specialising in helping people with all kinds of disabilities get fit. Read on to see how you can get fit too… Please can you tell DH readers a bit about […]
November 24th, 2016 CLBC Board Members Onkar Biring, Jane Holland and Joanne Curry meet with members of the Simon Fraser Community Council at the Port Moody office. Board members Jane Holland, Joanne Curry and Onkar Biring recently heard from families, service providers and staff at an open house hosted by CLBC’s Port Moody […]
She greeted me with warmth when I got on the bus in the morning. I was a little surprised because I go to work fairly early and am picked up even earlier and when I ride with others at that time, they are, um, chatty. I’m a morning person so I returned her greeting and […]
A few days ago, I wrote a post about the natural assumption that people with disabilities live their lives alone. That disability equals isolation. I believe that part of the disphobia that people have is from a bone deep fear that if they became disabled they will not only deal with a new way of […]
She is standing right beside me looking me directly in the eye. I am 63 and in a wheelchair and she is 10 standing tall. All around us people are hugging each other and saying hellos. Now she and I are connected in a kind of abstract way and if family trees were drawn […]
People with developmental disabilities in Burnaby will soon have access to nine new units of affordable housing. Following the September 2016 announcement of a $500-million investment in affordable rental housing, the B.C. government has selected Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion to receive $2 million in capital funding for a new housing project at 3755 Banff […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 22, 2016 Toronto, ON The over 100,000 Canadians with intellectual disabilities in need of affordable, quality housing and flexible supports to enable their full community inclusion can find some hope in a national housing report released in Ottawa today. The Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development and […]
B.C.’s strong economy means British Columbian families in need of affordable rental housing will soon have access to close to 2,900 new units of housing, thanks to the B.C. government’s funding commitment of $516 million toward the 68 projects announced today. These investments are estimated to produce 5,500 jobs. “This is why we continue to […]
