Organizer: Ability Starts Here – Conference on Inclusive Education and Employment
Title: Ability Starts Here – Conference on Inclusive Education and Employment
Category: Employment
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Date: December 1, 2015 – December 2, 2015
Web site: http://abilitystartshere.ca/
Description: The Power of Participation

8th Annual Symposium On Inclusive Education And Employment
In Celebration of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Tuesday and Wednesday December 1 & 2, 2015
World Trade and Convention Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Over 350 participants – educators, employers, labour organizations, entrepreneurs, persons with disabilities, government representatives and service agencies – will gather in Halifax for Symposium 2015. Learn, from each other and experts in the field, about the initiatives of and for persons with disabilities in the areas of education, employment and human rights. Inclusive and Accessible best practices will be shared. This further develops the opportunities for persons with disabilities to fully participate and contribute to the workforce in our communities across Nova Scotia.

Organizer: Ability Starts Here – Conference on Inclusive Education and Employment
Title: Women with Disabilities Series: Symposium 2015 – Ability Starts Here – Inclusion is Everyone’s Business
Category: Education
Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Date: December 1, 2015 – December 2, 2015
Web site: http://www.abilitystartshere.ca
Description: Women with Disabilities Series: Symposium 2015 – Ability Starts Here – Inclusion is Everyone’s Business

Women with Disabilities Series: Breaking the Barriers – Women’s Success in Education; Exploring the Connection among Gender, Disability and Employment; Exploring Violence Against Women with Disabilities. December 1-2, at the World Trade and Convention Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Check out our website www.abilitystartshere.ca for more information and registration.

Organizer: Tangled Art + Disability
Title: Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement – Documentary
Category: Accessibility
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Date: December 3, 2015
Web site: http://http://tangledarts.org/season-2015-16/

Description: Please join Tangled in celebrating the International Day of People with Disabilities at the TIFF Lightbox. As part of TIFF’s Higher Learning Series, Tangled is co-presenting the documentary Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement. The documentary and the panel that follows will explore the drive to make ourselves ‘better than human’ and debate the radical technologies, like prosthetic limbs and mechanical eyeballs, that promise to take us there.

DECEMBER 3RD, 2015 11AM-1:30PM
TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square
350 King Street West
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This event is a co-presentation between TIFF Higher Learning and Ryerson University’s School of Disability Studies.

Organizer: South Saskatchewan Independent Living Centre
Title: United Nations International Day of Persons With Disabilities – Regina
Category: Education
Location: Regina, Saskatchewan
Date: December 3, 2015

Description: The South Saskatchewan Independent Living Centre, with support from the City of Regina is holding its United Nations International Day of Persons With Disabilities event on December 3rd, 2015. It will be held from 1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. at the Core Ritchie Neighbourhood Centre, 445 14th in Regina. The theme is: Inclusiion Matters: Access and Empowerment for People of All Abilities, featuring presentations and discussion on the topics of Education, Recreation and Employment of persons with disabilities. Attendant support will be provide. Light refreshments will be served.