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Where Jennifer Moore lives in downtown Windsor, the sewers overflow onto her street and her property neary everytime it rains. Moore says she knows there is no quick fix, but she is calling on the province to keep residents safe from the raw sewage. That includes covering the cos ... Show More

From the massive profits declared by our national grocery chains, to people living in tents across the country, economic inequality seems more evident now than it has in generations. Lars Osberg explores how inequality is growing at an accelerated pace in his new book The Scandal ... Show More

Renters in the province continue to face rising costs. For tenants on fixed term leases, the situation is even more difficult. The ACORN tenant union has released a report showing just how precarious their situation is. We hear from Margaret Anne McHugh, who is the co-chair of AC ... Show More

The impact of continued research into genetic screening and therapies is debated by people with disabilities and geneticists, highlighting the issue of rights for disabled people 

In this episode of the NVIDIA AI Podcast, Sara Minkara, U.S. Special Advisor on International Disability Rights, and Timothy Shriver, Chairman of Special Olympics, discuss AI's potential to enhance education and disability inclusion. They emphasize the importance of including dis ... Show More

In the final episode from Paris, Emma is given privileged access to the athletes' village - and gets a tour of the Ottobock compound - the place where competitors can bring damaged disability equipment for repair.From welding a wheelchair frame that got cracked in a rugby tackle ... Show More

For people who are living with disability, including various forms of chronic diseases and chronic pain, daily tasks like lifting a glass of water or taking off clothes can be difficult if not impossible. In Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable World ... Show More

Eileen V. Wallis' book California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) explores the political, legal, medical, and social battles that led to the widespread institutionalization of Californians with disabilities from the gold rush to the 1970s. By ... Show More

Ady Barkan was an American lawyer and a social justice activist. He was a powerful grassroots organizer who promoted policies that help America’s workers and was a champion of healthcare for all. Ady was an especially vocal advocate for low-income, elderly and disabled population ... Show More

Under the Americans With Disabilities Act, businesses are supposed to make their websites accessible to the visually impaired. WSJ's Ruth Simon found that this requirement has led to an explosion of lawsuits, many of which are against small businesses. Further Reading: - The Law ... Show More

Gerald O'Brien's book Eugenics, Genetics, and Disability in Historical and Contemporary Perspective: Implications for the Social Work Profession (Oxford UP, 2023) focuses on the conceptual relationship between the American eugenic movement of the early 1900s and contemporary gene ... Show More

In honor of Disability Pride Month, this week’s episode examines personal triumphs and societal challenges of being a person with disabilities in STEM. Part 1: As a deaf person, Alma Schrage doesn’t see a place for herself in the traditional academic world of science. Part 2: Aft ... Show More

In the US, there is something often called a 'marriage penalty' for people with disabilities. We dig into the very complicated and often heartbreaking details of what this is, and why the system was designed this way.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.