How to reimagine Canada’s cities to create true accessibility post-COVID

COVID-19 has also given us an opportunity to reassess how we think about the workplace. Prior to the pandemic, workforce participation had generally been contingent on peoples’ ability to access company workplaces.

Employment and Disability Inclusion Minister Carla Qualtrough, pictured at West Block, helped shepherd the feds' Accessible Canada Act, which marks its one-year anniversary next month.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY The Rick Hansen Foundation and 880Cities

May 29, 2020

Since March 11, when the World Health Organization first declared a pandemic, COVID-19 has turned our cities upside down. Restaurants and bars have closed to the public, storefronts have been boarded up, and footfall into Canadian urban centres has plummeted. Once-bus...

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