Sociologist, scholar of disability and film and inclusive society, and a hip old granny
British Columbia, Canada
Joined February 2011
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Fiona W-Walsh retweeted
🔨 Breaking Barriers in the Trades! 🔨
🚫 MYTH: People with disabilities create unsafe work environments in the trades.
✅ FACT: With appropriate accommodations & safety measures, persons with disabilities can work safely and effectively in trades just like their peers. 🛠️💪
ALT Information myth vs fact text graphic, showing CAF and CCRW logos and text that reads: Myth: People with disabilities create unsafe work environments in the trades. Fact: With appropriate accommodations & safety measures, persons with disabilities can work safely and effectively in trades just like their peers.
Fiona W-Walsh retweeted
🔨 Breaking Barriers in the Trades! 🔨
🚫 MYTH: People with disabilities create unsafe work environments in the trades.
✅ FACT: With appropriate accommodations & safety measures, persons with disabilities can work safely and effectively in trades just like their peers. 🛠️💪
ALT Information myth vs fact text graphic, showing CAF and CCRW logos and text that reads: Myth: People with disabilities create unsafe work environments in the trades. Fact: With appropriate accommodations & safety measures, persons with disabilities can work safely and effectively in trades just like their peers.
Fiona W-Walsh retweeted
“In B.C., there are large differences between groups in educational outcomes...For example, 92% of all students complete secondary school in six years, but only 78% of students with disabilities and 75% of Indigenous students do the same”
vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/0…
Fiona W-Walsh retweeted
Former BC cabinet minister @Stephanie4BC received an Honorary Degree from @KwantlenU at the university’s June 12 convocation ceremony. Speaking to hundreds of graduates, Cadieux says she hopes to help Canada reimagine what accessibility is. @OCAO_BDPA_GC
Fiona W-Walsh retweeted
🏆@Stephanie4BC, Chief Accessibility Officer for Canada and advocate for diversity, accessibility and inclusion, will receive a Doctor of Laws from
@KwantlenU today.
Read more: kpu.ca/news/2024/06/12/accid…
ALT Stephanie Cadieux is being recognized with an honorary degree from KPU.
Fiona W-Walsh retweeted
Barriers to care persist but access to MAiD keeps expanding: Dr Ramona Coelho
macdonaldlaurier.ca/maid-kee…
Fiona W-Walsh retweeted
No increases to PWD/income assistance for the poorest British Columbians.
The budget website lists all the new announcements, but for PWD/income assistance they just have a link to a 2022 press release under that section lol #bcpoli #vanpoli
strongerbc.gov.bc.ca/cost-of…
Fiona W-Walsh retweeted
The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) is also calling for @selinarobinson to resign
caut.ca/latest/2024/02/caut-…
Fiona W-Walsh retweeted
The Federation of Post Secondary Educators is calling for the resignation of Post-Secondary Education Minister Selina Robinson, saying that she intervened in the termination of a Langara instructor over her comments about the ongoing war in Gaza. vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/0…
Fiona W-Walsh retweeted
Canada is announcing a further delay before expanding MAiD for mental illness alone.
But if the health care system isn’t “ready” for MAiD as a treatment option for someone who is depressed, why is it ready for someone who is depressed + disabled?
cbc.ca/news/politics/medical…
Fiona W-Walsh retweeted
It's Delayed
cbc.ca/news/politics/medical…
Fiona W-Walsh retweeted
Cynical demagoguery Senator Kutcher, claiming government needs to give persons w mental illness access to the “same care”, that is—a remarkable recommendation for a former psychiatrist—a lethal injection ctvnews.ca/politics/feds-mus…:
Fiona W-Walsh retweeted
“I want to learn how to do it well, for Valencianos, and more importantly, for those of us who have different abilities.”
Mar Galcerán makes history as Spain’s first parliamentarian with Down’s syndrome. A significant step toward real inclusion.
theguardian.com/world/2024/j…
Fiona W-Walsh retweeted
Approaches to addressing sexual violence at multiple levels can include enhancing capacity of families, friends & caregivers; creating peer support; promoting inclusion; investing in intersectional supports; + challenging ableist attitudes through awareness. #16days @LNandKH
ALT Text: Preventing sexual violence against women labelled with intellectual disabilities requires overlapping action at multiple levels: Individual Relationship Community Society The DAWN Canada hummingbird logo is in the bottom right corner.
Fiona W-Walsh retweeted
Excellent analysis by lawyers Mary Shariff @robsonhall & @derekbmross in @IRPP of Canada's #MAID #euthanasia expansion, & implicit devaluation of disabled lives
policyoptions.irpp.org/magaz…
Fiona W-Walsh retweeted
Long delays in getting children and youth help with anxiety, depression costs Canada $4B per year: report ctvnews.ca/health/long-delay… @CTVNews @AlexandraMaeJ @ChildHealthCan
Fiona W-Walsh retweeted
🇨🇦 ‼️ "The federal government is considering whether to pause its original plan to broaden the rules that govern medically assisted dying so they include patients whose only underlying condition is a mental disorder" TY @viraniarif.
#AMAD #cdnpoli #HoC #SenCA h/t @StephTaylorCP
'Weighing our options': Ottawa open to further pause to expand assisted dying rules ctvnews.ca/health/weighing-o…
Fiona W-Walsh retweeted
I echo the call for @NDP to make the #Canadian #Disability #Benefit part of the supply and confidence agreement.
There are no homes left for us to afford, groceries last shorter, people with disabilities are going homeless and #MAiD coercion is real, being sold the fantasy of dying with dignity without the option of living with dignity first.
@theJagmeetSingh @BonitaZarrillo @MPJulian @LisaMarieBarron
#PWDrising #OW #PWD #ODSP #DERB #AISH #said #MAiD #cdnpoli #disability #neurodiverse #Neurodivergent #odspoverty #PWDallies #humanrights #un_enable #canpoli #follow #retweet #ontario #canada #disabilitytwitter #ableism #poverty #homelessness #hunger #canadiandisabilitybenefit
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Fiona W-Walsh retweeted
This week, the CAO visited @myKPU
for an Indigenous Disability Awareness Month celebration. #IDAM2023
The event included powerful performances reflecting Indigenous views of disability.
kpu.ca/iacp#:~:text=Includin…