In the face of mounting losses, Canada Post has come up with an innovative plan to keep its services sustainable. that plan? Massive service cuts and price increases. The Conference Board of Canada study estimated savings of $576 million a year by eliminating door-to-door delivery to urban homes. Those areas – which account for about …
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Sony And Amazon Don’t Think You Should Be Reading This Post, Blind Person
Why do companies that make products and provide services I enjoy have to be such complete and total discriminatory arseholes? Check out these utterly absurd reasons why Sony and Amazon don’t think they should have to comply with the Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010, which mandates that electronic devices be made …
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Crap! Nobody Told Us You People Read Braille With Your Hands!
Well done, Conservative Party research office, well done. Conservative disability mailout uses braille that’s unreadable The so-called “householder” pamphlets, prepared by the party’s research office and sent out by MPs using their parliamentary mailing privileges, were intended to flag the government’s efforts to help people with disabilities enter the workforce. The headline on the document, …
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Changes AT GDB: My Thoughts
I haven’t written about this…frankly because I didn’t feel like I had enough brain cells left at the end of the day or the weekend to truly get my thoughts down. I still don’t feel very eloquent whenever I think about this, but I have to write something down. While I was in class, GDB, …
The Equal Access To Books For The Blind Petition Is Accessible Now, But You’d Better Hurry If You’d Like To Sign It
Some good news on the equal access to books for the blind petition courtesy of this week’s Top Tech Tidbits. The petition in support of the treaty on accessible books for people who are blind that is located on the White House website is finally accessible to people who are blind. Previously, it was paradoxically …
Sign In Support Of The Blind’s Right To Access Printed Books…If You Can Get Past The CAPTCHA
Equal access to printed material for the blind is an issue that’s pretty close to our hearts for obvious reasons, so I’m happy to plug this petition. No matter how many times I hear something like this, I’m always baffled and saddened by corporations that don’t want to not only do the right thing as …
A Penny Saved Is A Few Million Dollars Less Than Anticipated
In a shocking turn of events, a government has gotten its math wrong. Weird, eh? That never happens. So what went wrong this time? Well, it seems that the savings we can expect from getting rid of pennies are about $7 million less annually than Jim Flaherty said they would be, at least over the …
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Don’t Get Too Comfortable, Nickel And Dime
I knew this would happen, but I’m not sure I’d have guessed it would be this fast. The corpse of the Canadian penny hasn’t even finished cooling off yet and already there are folks calling for the end of not only the nickel, but the dime as well. The arguments are similar to the ones …
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Are We About To See The Return Of Internet Snooping Legislation?
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who had this thought when I heard Stephen Harper speak about the suicide of Rehtaeh Parsons yesterday. Is Harper exploiting cyberbully panic to reboot the Internet spying bill? Here’s part of what he said. “… one of the difficulties here is that investigative tools for our police officers …
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The Death Of The Canadian Penny Begins!
Let it be known that Monday, February 4th of the year 2013 was a glorious day. Why? No more pennies! Well, almost. The Mint has stopped distributing them, but it’s going to take years to get them completely out of circulation. It’s estimated that there are still at least 35 billion of them floating around …