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Item Open Access "The Next Stop is…Inaccessible. Inaccesible Stop." GTHA Transit System Maps Coded for Accessibility(2017-06-16) Kierans, Patricia; Gorman, Rachel; Rious, MarciaThis thesis bridges a vital gap in accessible transit information across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA), by providing customized Google Maps whose transit stops are filtered according to accessibility. The current lack of such maps among the agencies was examined through three vital frameworks: the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Disabled People (CRPD), and Diller’s Civil Rights Model. After careful analysis, the AODA proved to have no requirements regarding the publishing of accessibility information. The AODA’s Transportation Standard is criticized by the Ontario Human Rights Code as violating human rights standards, and making no steps forward to positively integrate people with disabilities into society. The CRPD‘s requirements that every signing nation must provide accessible environments, and access to information about accessibility, goes further to include a directive to constantly continue improving accessibility. Diller’s Civil Rights Model sinks the case of the GTHA’s transit agencies even further: his model lays the responsibility to provide equal access on individual corporations themselves, as well as the government. It is clear, via these frameworks, that the GTHA’s transit agencies have not done enough to ensure equality of access to accessibility information, although they may meet the AODA’s general transportation requirements. It was a critical oversight of the AODA that no requirement for the communication of accessible transportation information was included. Pressure must be put on these transit agencies, as well as the provincial government, to modify their existing transit maps to include the accessibility of transit stops, or to create new maps that specifically highlight accessibility information. It is my intent that this research should make a positive contribution to this process.Item Open Access Unworthy of Space - An Investigation of Hegemonic Ideologies Within the Treatment of People with Physical Disabilities and Poverty-Stricken Individuals(2017-08-18) Ellerby, Kristin; Reaume, Geoffrey; Gilmour, JoanThis paper will engage in an investigation of the socio-spatial oppression experienced by people with physical disabilities (PWPD), and the poverty-stricken populace in Ontario. We will begin by exploring the histories of both aforementioned groups with the intention of ascertaining when, and for what reasons societal exclusion and oppression commenced. We will continue on to an examination of the manner in which disability and poverty have been perceived and accounted for within Canadian, and more specifically, Ontario law. Then an investigation of the capitalist ideologies that are evidently present in the enactment of both the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), and the Ontario Safe Streets Act (OSSA), that function to socially, politically, and economically oppress both groups to the benefit of the hegemonic will take place. We will then examine the socio-spatial neglect experienced by PWPD, and individuals living in poverty, and the manner in which the AODA and the OSSA have been complicit in the marginality experienced by both groups. In comparing the societal exclusion of both, while simultaneously examining the ideologies used to justify such treatment, this paper intends to make apparent the numerous similarities in the hegemonic oppression experienced by the aforesaid groups, and posit that engaging in activism as a collective may assist in obtaining equality.