Your voice needs to be heard at the All Party forum on Disability and Accessibility. If you are unable to attend or simply want to register your concerns, please take a minute to fill out this short questionnaire. I will hand the results to the moderator before the meeting on October 7th. Feel free to share the questionnaire.
I apologize in advance for difficulties screen readers may have with the form. And I rely on your sense of fairness to just submit one form.
Thanks for participating.
Gus Reed
ps here's a separate link to the form.......
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October 1, 2015
September 30, 2015
June 22, 2014
You are cordially invited.................
to a brief, public graveside ceremony to celebrate the 125th birthday of James McGregor Stewart.
Monday, June 30, 2014, 10:00 o'clock AM
Camp Hill Cemetery
On the circle
The Rev'd Dr. Paul Friesen officiating
Piping Prelude
Invocation - Dr. Friesen
Reading and Presentation of Proclamation - Speaker Murphy
Reading of Kipling's The Thousandth Man - R. J. MacLennan
Benediction - Dr. Friesen
Piping Postlude
James McGregor Stewart, 1889-1955, son of a Pictou lawyer, grandson of a Cape Breton minister, had Polio as a child. He was a principal of Stewart, McKelvey, the downtown Halifax law firm. In his time he was Nova Scotia’s premier corporate lawyer, and he wrote the rules for many of our most successful and long-lived companies. He was president of the Canadian Bar between the wars.
He is one of fewer than 500 Canadians to be awarded the Commander of the British Empire for services to the Empire in WW II. His obituary was in the New York Times. Stewart was a collector of writings by Rudyard Kipling and met Kipling at his home in Sussex in 1932
The Society which bears his name, advocates for fair treatment of Nova Scotians with disabilities and was instrumental in the House of Assembly Management Commission's 2013 decision to require constituency offices to be accessible.
September 9, 2012
Change your city!
- make accessibility a central goal of their administration
- identify and eliminate obstacles and barriers to accessibility
- review procedures and policies and develop plans to ensure equitable access
- encourage persons with disabilities to take an active role in government
- include accessibility as part of the mission and responsibility of every department
Accessibility is a big issue in HRM, and voters are entitled to know how candidates would improve it. An accessible city helps such disparate goals as employment, business creation and tourism. Here are some approaches to each of the 5 items, but we want to hear the candidates ideas.
1. Articulate a broad and comprehensive statement of why accessibility is important and what measures HRM will take to achieve it.
2. Publish a map, publish a list, request emails and phone calls, invite the public to participate, ask the CNIB, the CPA, the Society of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Nova Scotians to participate. Require municipal departments to report barriers to access.
3. Ask the HRM Auditor to be sure every program and service meets standards of fairness.
4. Review the powers, responsibilities, composition and structure of HRM's Accessibility Advisory Committee. Who do they report to, what is their mandate, what support do they get? What is their record and how could it be improved? Develop a staff position to oversee the implementation of full accessibility.
5. Require a section in each department's annual report detailing which of their responsibilities affects accessibility and what measures are being taken. Appoint an Accessibility Officer in every department to conduct public discourse.
So please sign the petition and we'll see what develops.
Gus Reed
PS and pass it along!
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