GLADNET: Promise and Legacy

[Excerpt] The Global Applied Disability Research and Information Network on Employment and Training (GLADNET) was launched by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in 1995, in cooperation with over 50 social policy research centres, governmental and non- governmental organizations involved in disability-related employment programmes from over thirty countries around the world. Major organizations of persons with disabilities were also represented – the World Blind Union, the World Federation of the Deaf, Inclusion International (formerly the International League of Societies for Persons with Mental Handicap (ILSMH)) and Disabled Peoples International (DPI). GLADNET’s lifespan was little more than a generation (1995 – 2018). What’s of interest is that it survived beyond its first few years of existence. It could easily have died early on, given a significant change in nature of support from its initiating body. That it didn’t speaks to the aspirational nature and relevance of the vision prompting its formation. It’s in pursuit of that vision where GLADNET left its mark. This document focuses on its legacy, beginning with a brief review of context within which it was initiated

Dispute Resolution, Access to Civil Justice and Legal Education

This article examines current dispute resolution teaching and research programs in the context of improving access to justice through recent civil justice reform initiatives. Animated by extensive domestic and international literature, online and survey-based research, the article explores the landscape of alternative dispute resolution education (primarily at law schools), comments on the need for continued thinking and reform and acts as a leading resource to assist in the ongoing, collaborative development of dispute resolution initiatives in legal education in Canada and abroad

Dispute Resolution, Access to Civil Justice and Legal Education

This article examines current dispute resolution teaching and research programs in the context of improving access to justice through recent civil justice reform initiatives. Animated by extensive domestic and international literature, online and survey-based research, the article explores the landscape of alternative dispute resolution education (primarily at law schools), comments on the need for continued thinking and reform and acts as a leading resource to assist in the ongoing, collaborative development of dispute resolution initiatives in legal education in Canada and abroad

Newsletter, 2000-09, no. 15

The newsletter contains both association business and material of interest to midwives and related health care workers.The Association's name has changed several times based on the newsletter: from January 1992 - January 1997 it was The Alliance of Nurse-Midwives, Maternity and Neonatal Nurses, dropping the "Nurse-" after July 1994; from March 1997 - September 2000 it was Newfoundland and Labrador Midwives Association, and the issue numbering was reset; and in January 2001 it became Association of Midwives of Newfoundland and Labrador

Cancer and work in Canada with particular reference to occupational risk factors in breast cancer patients in one community and related selected research methods used to investigate those factors

Cancer represents a major cause of human morbidity and mortality. There is no scientific consensus regarding cancer causality or prevention. Occupational exposure potentially remains a major contributor to the incidence of this group of diseases, but the data to assess its impact continues to elude researchers and public health advocates. Among women in industrialised countries, breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer. The known or suspected risk factors, including family history and lifetime oestrogen load, can account for less than 50 percent of the cases. New hypotheses about the role of xenoestrogens and endocrine disrupting compounds are challenging the previous scientific precepts regarding cancer causality. Within this context, the extent to which a community-based occupational history data collection initiative can contribute to advancing our scientific understanding of associations between cancer and work is explored. The possibility that occupational histories data can find associations missed in conventional breast cancer research that ignore occupation is also explored. More specifically, the extent to which data derived from an occupational history questionnaire can provide insight into the potential association between breast cancer risk and farming is examined. Occupational histories of cancer patients contain data that could help to elucidate and inform our understanding of cancer aetiology and prevention. In the community of Windsor, Ontario, Canada a local cancer treatment centre responded to community concerns by cooperating in a collaborative research project to collect the occupational histories of cancer patients. 'Computerised Record of Occupation Made Easy' (CROME) was an innovative method that allowed individual patients to document their lifetime work histories. This data collection process represented the first time a local Canadian cancer treatment center had undertaken such an initiative. Based on the hypothesis generated by CROME, a new research study was launched - Lifetime Occupational History Record (LOHR). Over a two-and-a-half year period, all female patients at the Windsor Regional Cancer Centre with new incident breast cancer were invited to participate in a population-based case-control study along with an equivalent number of randomly selected community controls. A comprehensive lifetime history questionnaire was administered to subjects by interview. Data gathered included known or suspected risk factors along with a complete occupational history of all jobs ever worked. An occupational history of farming alone produced an Odds Ratio (OR) = 2.8 (Cl, 95%, 1.6-4.8). These findings are important for our understanding of cancer causality with implications for resolving the current scientific conflict regarding the role of occupationally caused carcinogenesis. Such collaborative, community-based studies also demonstrate the importance of community participation in the scientific research process

Transnational Corporate Regulation through Sustainability Reporting: A Case Study of the Canadian Extractive Sector

Despite the benefits transnational corporations (TNCs) offer, they remain largely unregulated entities, enabling environmental, social, and human rights violations to be overlooked. Canadian extractive sector TNCs operating internationally are frequently cited as major perpetrators of such violations. Literature on new governance and self-regulation as well as global corporate social responsibility (CSR) increasingly offers disclosure and reporting as a solution for TNC regulation. This study examines disclosure in international CSR frameworks, and the reflexive law and new governance theories explaining the role of such disclosure and reporting. Mirroring international CSR initiatives, Canadian jurisdictions are increasingly recommending disclosure for its extractive sector TNCs, including through its securities laws. Securities law provides a promising foundation for sustainability reporting because of its existing disclosure framework and its ability to compel disclosure. This potential of Canadian securities law also provides a basis for comparison with the Global Reporting Initiative, the leading sustainability reporting standard

Newsletter, 1998-06, no. 05

The newsletter contains both association business and material of interest to midwives and related health care workers.The Association's name has changed several times based on the newsletter: from January 1992 - January 1997 it was The Alliance of Nurse-Midwives, Maternity and Neonatal Nurses, dropping the "Nurse-" after July 1994; from March 1997 - September 2000 it was Newfoundland and Labrador Midwives Association, and the issue numbering was reset; and in January 2001 it became Association of Midwives of Newfoundland and Labrador

Redevelopment Of The Centre For Addiction And Mental Health: Do Images Speak Louder Than Words?

Since the advent of modern medicine and the isolation of "disease of the mind" (Prichard, 1837), specialized institutions for psychiatric care have sought to aid in treating such debilitating conditions, often with an eye to the therapeutic benefits of a specific site, its design, physical form and environs beyond. Recent literature suggests prioritizing flexible, therapeutically minded design, which includes normalization through community integration. Though architecture that can promote psychosocial wellbeing has been studied extensively in the modern age, the civic planning of healthcare facilities as part of the texture of an urban environment and its private interests has seen limited scrutiny. In light of past focus on therapeutically minded architectural determinism, the physical environment, and its limitations as a treatment, planners should consider the value of a focus on vulnerable stakeholder empowerment over conceptualizations of therapeutic design. This paper highlights the ongoing historical legacy of top-down decision making for healthcare facilities. The way in which real estate and design imperatives obfuscate the need for human compassion through technocracy is a critical issue for planning to face up to. Realizing its limited scope in affecting behavior and instead its potentially significant role in empowering commonly ignored stakeholders is critical for planning to contribute towards the formation of a decision making environment that values justice and pursues commonly shared prosperity. This paper constitutes a critical analysis of the redevelopment of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) on Queen Street (in Toronto) in light of the earliest history of the site's planning and use as an asylum. It seeks to assess whether normalizing and deinstitutionalizing psychiatric campuses and their clients through a focus on site design has provided developers with a carte blanche in terms of inserting their private residential and commercial projects into the psychiatric milieu. My research uncovers and demonstrates the ways in which a focus on site design and broad aspirational visions obfuscate planning?s communicative role, and weaken its potential for advocacy through an examination of the redevelopment of CAMH's Queen Street psychiatric facility