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1. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · David Lepofsky

   Public streets should be safe for everyone, but disability advocate says e-scooters can turn sidewalks into collision and trip hazards (opens the original)

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   Ontario municipal and school board elections are on Oct. 26. Ontarians with disabilities need your help. Municipalities and schools should be more accessible to people with disabilities. The Ontario Human Rights Code, the Charter of Rights and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act require it. Ask your community’s candidates for council to make the municipal disability accessibility pledge that calls for no e-scooters, no scramble intersections and no bike paths on sidewalks. Th

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2. Article · Aug 20, 2026 · David Lepofsky

   Missing elevator at Finch West station creates uphill battle for transit riders with disabilities (opens the original)

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   When the Ford government recently opened two new Toronto light rail transit lines, it subjected Ontarians to entirely preventable accessibility blunders. My column last month highlighted one — a screw-up with way-finding floor marking to help us blind people find our way through the new labyrinthine stations. Here’s another equally ridiculous one: The government failed to include an obviously necessary elevator at the renovated Finch West station for transit riders with disabilities to go up

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3. Article · Jul 9, 2026 · David Lepofsky

   Toronto transit system claims accessibility while blind passengers struggle through complex underground stations (opens the original)

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   Editor’s note: The name of the Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians was corrected on July 20, 2026. Provincial politicians boast about building new public transit. Yet, too often, the Ontario government doesn’t ensure new public transit is fully accessible to passengers with disabilities. Two provincial agencies are responsible for this — Infrastructure Ontario, and, for Toronto/Hamilton, Metrolinx. Here is a ridiculous Toronto example. It could as easily occur anywhere in Ontario. After

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