Curated News Content
Here is where you will find some of the news articles we have shared online through our social media.
September 2025:
- CTV Edmonton (Sept. 25, 2025): ‘The disabled community does not approve’: Edmonton man starts petition against ADAP
- CTV Calgary (Sept. 11, 2025): Alberta disability advocates warn new benefit program will deepen poverty
- Calgary Herald (Sept. 6, 2025): Opinion: Lee Stevens: Let the Canada Disability Benefit reach those who need it most in Alberta
- Calgary Herald (Sept. 3, 2025): Opinion: Braid: UCP government’s cash clawback and AISH upheaval seem heartless
- Calgary Herald (Sept. 1, 2025): What’s the difference between AISH and ADAP? A look at changes to Alberta’s disability assistance programs
August 2025:
- CityNews Calgary (August 31, 2025): Changes to Alberta’s disability income support put clients on edge
- CityNews Edmonton (August 28, 2025): Province seeks feedback on AISH replacement program
- Red Deer Advocate (August 22, 2025): New disabilities program a ‘devastating blow to people with disabilities on AISH’: Inclusion Alberta
- CTV Edmonton (August 21, 2025): Edmonton woman says proposed changes to AISH ‘heart wrenching’
- CBC Edmonton (August 21, 2025): AISH recipient, advocates worry about Alberta’s new disability benefit program
- The Stettler Independent (August 14, 2025): Opinion: Cruel calculations: How Alberta’s UCP is squeezing the most vulnerable
- CTV (August 11, 2025): Apprehension felt as deadline nears for AISH recipients to file for Canada Disability Benefit
July 2025:
- CTV Alberta Primetime (July 22, 2025): ‘People are living in pretty dire circumstances’: Inclusion Alberta upset with province’s AISH rent increase
- CBC News (July 21, 2025): AISH recipients panicked over looming provincial deadline: health providers
- Calgary Herald (July 19, 2025): Opinion: AISH clawback underscores Alberta’s fraying social contract
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Edmonton Sun Opinion (July 6, 2025): Tait: Albertans should demand province stop claw back of Canadian Disability Benefits
- Edmonton Journal Opinion (July 3, 2025): Alberta’s clawback of federal disability benefits shameful
June 2025:
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CBC Edmonton (June 30, 2025): Alberta government will appoint ‘action team’ to address classroom aggression
- Calgary Herald (June 20, 2025): Opinion: In Alberta’s grab for federal cash, Albertans with disabilities pay the price
- CBC News (June 26, 2025): Disability tax credits are critical for some Canadians. But applying for them can cost thousands
- CBC News (June 3, 2025): Edmonton Public Schools cuts number of seclusion rooms, but confinement continues
May 2025:
- Global Edmonton (May 28, 2025): National Accessibility Week highlights need for inclusive employment in Alberta
- CBC Edmonton AM: The benefits of employment for people with intellectual disabilities
- The Tyee (May 12, 2025): Only Alberta Will Claw Back New Federal Money for Disabled People
- CTV (May 6, 2025): Rallies pop up calling for disability rights
- Edmonton Journal (May 5, 2025): Promises vs. reality: Parents say inclusive education still out of reach at Edmonton Public Schools
April 2025:
- Edmonton Journal (April 10, 2025): Opinion: Alberta should support workplace inclusion for those with disabilities
- Wetaskiwin Times (April 9, 2025): Max Chats: Why take $200 a month away?
- Edmonton Journal (April 2, 2025): ‘Segregate their children’: Proposed Edmonton Public Schools autism centre raising concerns
- CBC (April 2, 2025): The Autism Centre of Excellence school is moving to the planning phase. But not all parents are happy
- CityNews (April 2, 2025): ‘Autism Centre of Excellence School’ in early planning stages for Edmonton Public Schools
- MyLethbridgeNow (April 2, 2025): Claw back on federal funding to impact AISH recipients: Inclusion Lethbridge
- MyLloydminsterNow (April 2, 2025): Disappointed by Alberta’s AISH clawback: Inclusion Lloydminster
March 2025:
- CTV Calgary (March 26, 2025): Outcry against province from people receiving AISH benefits
- CBC (March 26, 2025): Alberta to claw back federal disability from AISH recipients
February 2025:
- Lethbridge Herald (Feb. 26, 2025): Disabled Albertans deserve better (opinion piece by Hart Chapelle)
- RDNewsNow (Feb.21, 2025): Letter to the Editor: Families Deserve Better Support for Children with Disabilities
- CTV News Edmonton (Feb.5, 2025): Potential support cuts advocates’ chief concern over new Alberta program for disabled workers
- CTV News Calgary (Feb. 5, 2025): Province to launch program to help Albertans with disabilities
- CBC Edmonton (Feb. 4, 2025): Alberta introduces plan to allow people with disabilities to work and receive benefits
- CBC Radio Calgary (Feb. 4, 2025): A new disability benefit: The province has announced a new benefit program for Albertans with disabilities who want to pursue work opportunities.
January 2025
- St. Albert Gazette (Jan. 31, 2025): Rural Albertans with disabilities wait years for support: report
- MyLakelandNow (Jan. 31, 2025): St. Paul, Lloydminster families to feel effect of cuts to Inclusion Alberta funds
- CHAT News (Jan. 26, 2025): Medicine Hat mother among many waiting years for Alberta family disability support
- CBC News (Jan. 23, 2025): Provincial support delays are hurting disabled Albertans and families, report finds
- Canadian Press (Global News)(Jan. 22, 2025): Government cuts $500K in funding to Inclusion Alberta disability organization
- EverythingGP (Jan. 22, 2025): Government cuts $500K in funding to Alberta disability organization
- CBC RadioActive Edmonton (Jan. 22, 2025): How long of a wait is too long when it comes to accessing disability programs?
- CitiNews Edmonton (Jan. 22, 2025): Inclusion Alberta calls out provincial funding changes for disability organizations
- Edmonton Sun (Jan. 19, 2025): TAIT: Cuts to advocacy groups silences those who need help most
- CityNews Edmonton (Jan. 16, 2025): Edmonton parents navigating school support strike
- Global News (Canadian Press, Jan. 15, 2025): Disability rights groups shocked by Alberta government funding cut: ‘We’re essential’
- Red Deer Advocate (Jan. 7, 2025): Thousands of children with disabilities waiting for support while Alberta cuts staff, says AUPE
2024
- Calgary Herald Opinion (Oct. 26, 2024): Disability and homelessness: Alberta can do better
- Midday on 630 CHED with Courtney Theriault (June 28, 2024): Edmonton public schools *adding* seclusion rooms
- CBC News (June 27, 2024): Edmonton Public School adding 25 seclusion rooms despite promise to phase them out
- CTV Calgary (June 12, 2024): Inclusion Alberta seeking companies to employ individuals with intellectual disabilities
- National Post (Dec. 11, 2023): The Excluded: Joe has been in school only four full days this year. But he’s not suspended. And he’s not alone.