Dear Hollywood: Enough with the disability clichés
Filmmakers have long used stale disability narratives to nab awards. Recent films hint at more complexity.
Gary Paterson says: Let’s host a discussion about assisted suicide
The church is a place to talk end-of-life ethics, where the personal, the political and the spiritual collide
Unpaid internships are spreading like wildfire, with few protections
Would-be employees are cycling through multiple volunteer internships before getting paying jobs and can't risk saying no to demands
John Swinton on why churches have disability ‘inclusion’ all wrong
'To include people in society is just to have them there.'
Bernadette Dumas’s parents needed a place to hide her. Decades later, she’s still haunted by what she lost
Years after she was sent to a United Church maternity home, she wants a national inquiry into the role of churches, social
Homeless programs are all too successful, but society fails to care
Thousands seek shelter in churches and Out of the Cold programs, but long-term solutions are not on the table
Assisted death crusader Gloria Taylor sits down with the Observer
She's the only person in Canada to win the right to a medically assisted death if she needs one when ALS gets
Church needs to be a welcoming place for those with disabilities
To be genuinely open, congregations need to treat people with intellectual disabilities as more than guests
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