Author Archives: Cam Dore

Conrad Tyrkin did a presentation on People First at the recent 16th Annual SelfAdvocate Leadership Retreat at the Edenvale Retreat Centre. The details can be downloaded here as a PDF

Thanks to the help she received from Community Futures, Jennifer is now working at a job that she loves at Vernon Teach & Learn. posted Sep 24, 2014 at 1:00 AM Jennifer’s face lights up with a beautiful grin when I walk through the doors at Vernon Teach and Learn. She stops working for a […]

Comox Valley MLA Don McRae, centre, proclaims Disability Employment Month Friday at the Lewis Centre. At left is Ingrid Tanasichuk, executive director of Vancouver Island Vocational & Rehabilitation Services, and Bruce Brautigan of Creative Employment Access Society.   by  Scott Stanfield – Comox Valley Record posted Sep 24, 2014 at 1:00 PM For the first […]

With the launch of Canadian Business SenseAbility, an organization that will train companies how to hire disabled employees, we look at the worker who inspired the movement Clint Sparling is a longtime employyee of a Tim Hortons outlet in Scarborough By: Barbara Turnbull Living reporter, Published on Tue Sep 16 2014 Clint Sparling loves his […]

Inclusion BC has created an advocacy guide for families to help navigate through the BC Education Labour Dispute. The on-going labour dispute teachers’ strike has affected many families in BC, none harder than families who have a child with special needs. If you are one of those families and these school closures have affected you, staying informed and keeping […]

By Alex Lytwyn, for CBC News Posted: Sep 09, 2014 5:00 AM CTLast Updated: Sep 09, 2014 5:00 AM CT Alex Lytwyn, 28, lives with cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair, but he has not felt limited by his disability. He graduated from Assiniboine Community College in Brandon, Man., and has written two books in the […]

Monday, September 8, 2014 For many developmentally disabled adults in Ontario, home is a placed shared with very elderly strangers. Paige Cunliffe is 21-years-old living in a long-term care nursing home in Ontario Twelve thousand disabled people are waiting for a place in group homes in Ontario alone. Increasingly, young people in their 20s find […]

Woman with intellectual disabilities charged with destruction of property CBC News Posted: Sep 05, 2014 4:48 PM ATLast Updated: Sep 05, 2014 6:05 PM AT Nichele Benn, right, and her mother Brenda Hardiman wait at provincial court in Dartmouth in January. Hardiman says her daughter has cerebral palsy, epilepsy and an organic brain disorder that […]

Former Public Safety Canada official calls farmer who killed disabled daughter ‘genuinely kind and caring’ By Jason Proctor, CBC News Posted: Sep 02, 2014 5:00 PM PTLast Updated: Sep 04, 2014 7:41 AM PT One of the authors of Canada’s parole laws says Robert Latimer, the Saskatchewan farmer convicted of killing his severely disabled daughter, should be […]

How to integrate all students in B.C.’s schools is at the heart of debate over future of education By Tracy Sherlock, Vancouver Sun September 1, 2014 Eleven-year-old Eric Drysdale with sister Sophia and mom Lori at their home in Vancouver. Eric has a learning disability, so his parents sold their home to send him to […]