Here is a list of my blogs I started writing in July 2021. I have narrowed my list and kept only some of the blogs public that I think are most relevant to my current focus and work.
2025
Part 6 – Pulling it all together
Part 5 – Duty to facilitate
Part 4- Duty to consult
Part 3 – Meaningful Inquiry
Part 2 (b) – The Reasonable Justification Test
Part 2 (a) – The Discrimination Test
Part 1 – Power of the Human Rights Code
How do we Heal?
New HR Decision…and it’s Loaded
If not you, then who?
Participating in the Duty to Accommodate
National Accessibility Week
Policy – “soft policing”
The flaw of inclusion
More blogs! More lived experience
Another new HR decision – Intersecting Identity – Self-representing parent- A win!
Accepted Human Rights Complaints in Education
New HR Decision – Professional recommendations in IEP
Calling all Human Rights Lawyers
Individual Education Plan (IEP) – They aren’t just words on a page
New HR Decision – EA taken away IEP – Very informative
Parents take Ministry to Court – Win for Equitable Education
The Next Generation of Student Advocates
A Lighthouse to Those at Sea
“It depends”
Duty to Accommodate – Meaningful Inquiry
If nothing else….it’s okay to take up space
Evidence of Harm. Effective advocacy in Education
New Human Rights Complaint – Denied EA, Complaint Accepted
Settlement and Mediation Information
Let us always remember
What is the Human Rights Tribunal’s take on Exclusion?
2024
Families are Advocating – A Year in Review for HRT & OIPC and Media
5 Rules on how to be Untouchable
Who does Society care about?
Why Can’t we Just Sue the Government?
“this family needed help beyond what I’m trained for” (para 58)
The BC Human Rights Code Supersedes ALL other Laws, if Conflict Arises
“You Can Run on Anger”
Daycare Termination and Disability
Let’s Talk about Hindsight
Barriers! Barriers! Barriers!
The Financial Costs to Human Rights Complaints in Education
“Jumping the Shark”
TRB Complaints = HRT Dismissal? NOPE!!
Dear Advocates,
NEW – OIPC Decision – Coquitlam School District
ADHD, Dyslexia, Dysgraphia – Human Rights Education Case
(March 18th) NEW Education Human Rights Decision by Self-Representing Parent
Making a Human Rights Complaint
Self-Advocacy and Victim Blaming in Education
News Articles on Recent Human Rights Partial Win by Parent in Education
2023
Self-represented Parent of Child’s Education Discrimination Case – Partial Win – Human Rights Tribunal
Family Status – Human Rights Complaints in Education
To NDA or not to NDA? That is the Question…
Responding to Dismissal Applications
Late filing – Timeliness of Complaint
Free Speech Protected for Advocacy
What is Fatal to a Human Rights Complaint in Education?
Family Status Protection
Human Rights – Deaf community – ASL access – Education
2022
Why is Documentation so Important?
Human Rights Declaration from MoECC
What You Need to Know About the Teacher’s Regulation Branch -Decision Letters (Professional Conduct Unit)
Advocacy Summer Camp
Defamation. You said what?
What Does Ableism Look Like in Schools? It Looks Like This!
Why a Diagnosis?
GROUNDBREAKING BC HRT – ACCEPTS PARENT ADDED ON CHILD’S HR COMPLAINT
Human Rights – Lunch and Learn
2021
Education Case Law
The Non-Death Loss for Parents of Disabled Children in Education, All Over this Province
Rejection. Our Starting Point.
Groupthink…Does it Exist in School Districts and on Boards of Education?
Twinkie Theory
Context and Meaning
Systemic Impacts of Scarcity in Education
Expectations of Parents’ Behaviour