OCASI (ONTARIO COUNCIL OF AGENCIES SERVING IMMIGRANTS) invites you to apply to be an Advisory Committee Member for the Accessibility Initiative 2021-2023!

The Accessibility Initiative, a national and bilingual OCASI project, aims to enhance the knowledge and skills of settlement sector professionals across Canada so that they are better equipped to serve immigrants and refugees with in/visible disabilities.

An Advisory Committee member is someone who is located in Canada who works as part of a team to support the Accessibility Initiative activities.

To view more information, in English and French, please click HERE.

The Liberal Party of Canada has responded to our letter to the leaders of the Conservative, Green, Liberal, and New Democratic parties of Canada seeking their party’s platform response on the Canada Disability Benefit.

Read it here: https://disabilityalliancebc.therightfitbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Disability-Alliance-BC.docx-1.pdf

This response follows a response from the NDP, which we posted on our blog last week.

Minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduction Nicholas Simons has written to DABC to address vaccine passport exemptions for people who are medically unable to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

He responded: “Medical reasons that someone cannot receive a COVID-19 vaccine are limited to very few individuals. There will be an exemption process for those extremely rare circumstances, involving a person’s doctor and the Office of the Provincial Health Officer. These instances will be extremely rare.”

We’ve responded to request further information from the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction and the Ministry of Health about what the medical exemption process would look like, specifically how affected individuals can liaise with their doctors to ask for this exemption from the Office of the Provincial Health Officer.