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The Next Phase of the CDPA

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The next phase of the Canadian Disability Policy Alliance is part of a seven-year project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).  The project is led by Dr. Kathleen Martin Ginis, and will enhance the quantity and quality of community participation among Canadians living with a physical disability. More than 50 partners – ranging from community-based disability-related… Read more »

CDPA Celebrates 4 Years

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  The policy environment is perfectly designed to produce the problems that people with disabilities experience This is a core assumption of the Canadian Disability Policy Alliance. In other words, if people with disabilities in Canada experience a problem in their day-to-day lives, it can almost always be tracked back to a gap in the policy environment (e.g. regulation, legislation,… Read more »