Video available for Countering Policy Exclusions: Canada, disability, and international commitments panel

The video has now been released for the LWWRC’s virtual panel on February 27, 2025, co-hosted with Dr. Leah Levac’s Canada Research Chair in Critical Community Engagement and Public Policy. The panel on “Canada, disability, and international commitments” was the first session in a series titled “Countering Policy Exclusions.” Videos for two other sessions, held on April 10 and May 12, will be available soon.  

The panel was hosted by Deborah Stienstra and Leah Levac. The panelists included Bonnie Brayton, Chief Executive Officer of DAWN Canada; Stephanie Chipeur, Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Law and School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary; and Lynn Gehl, Algonquin and member of Pikwakanagan First Nation as well as author, advocate, artist, and public speaker with a PhD in Indigenous Studies. Panelists addressed key implementation gaps and their implications for people with disabilities while illustrating how women, girls, and gender-diverse people with disabilities provide leadership to counter these failures. 

The panel was recorded and captioned in English and the video is available on YouTube.   

In the description below the video, you can also access a summary of the event, the anonymized transcript of the Q&A, and the resources shared by the panelists.