Introducing: Disability Alliance Canada!

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April 4th, 2025

Disability Alliance BC (DABC) is excited to announce the creation of a new national non-profit organization: Disability Alliance Canada (DAC).

DAC is a separate, stand-alone non-profit operating under direct leadership from DABC’s Executive Director.

Additionally, several of DABC’s Board of Directors also sit on DAC’s board. In this way, DAC’s mission and mandate are intentionally aligned with DABC’s: DAC’s mission is to promote a more inclusive and equitable society for people with all disabilities across Canada through direct services, community partnerships, systemic advocacy, research, and publications.

Over the past several years, we have come to realize that the work DABC does, particularly in providing in-depth direct service support to clients, is not consistently provided in other provinces and territories. DABC’s level of knowledge and experience on supporting clients with our direct services is something of which we are especially proud to provide to the disability community in BC. Our aim in establishing DAC as a national non-profit is to expand our direct services across the country, starting with offering support for Disability Tax Credit (DTC) and Canada Pension Plan – Disability (CPP-D) applications.

This step marks a significant milestone in our efforts to extend our reach and further our impact on a broader scale across Canada. With the formation of this new, independent entity, DABC will continue our work in BC, while DAC will work to serve disability communities in all other provinces and territories.

We remain deeply committed to our mission and values, and we thank everyone who has supported us on this journey. Please stay tuned for more updates from DAC through our separate website, including new job openings.

For more information or inquiries, please contact info@disabilityalliancecanada.ca.

We encourage you to share this announcement amongst your networks – thank you for your support.

Lunch and Learn: My DTC, DABC's updated online DTC tool

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📣📣 Join us for our upcoming online ‘Lunch & Learn’ on My DTC, DABC’s updated online Disability Tax Credit tool.
When: Friday, Nov. 15th at 12:00 PM PST.
Where: Livestreamed via Facebook Live on DABC’s Facebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/DisabilityAllianceBC
My DTC has info on benefits, eligibility, and the overall process, as well as some tools to help with applying. Check it out here: https://mydtc.dabc.ca/.

Accessible Parking Exemptions

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Did you know that in Vancouver, BC, vehicles displaying a SPARC BC accessible parking permit can access resident permit parking and resident parking only, for up to 3 hours? And No Parking Zones for 30 minutes while actively loading or unloading people or materials?

All accessible parking exemptions are listed here: https://vancouver.ca/streets-transportation/accessible-parking.aspx.