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The Library has recently received a book entitled About Canada: Disability Rights, by Deborah Stienstra.

Deborah Stienstra is Professor in Disability Studies at the University of Manitoba. She held the Royal Bank Research Chair in Disability Studies from 2000-2003 at the Canadian Centre on Disability Studies. She has worked with national organizations including the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, The Council of Canadians with Disabilities, the National Action Committee on the Status of Women and the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace. (This information is from the University of Manitoba website.)

The book's sections include:

• What are disability rights?
• People and policies in search of disabilities
• When people with disabilities fall through the cracks
• Disability rights and key areas of Canadian society
• How can people with disabilities claim their rights?
• Learning from ordinary lives, changing social attitudes                         

If you click on the link in the first paragraph of this blog posting, you will find a list of all the libraries which contain a copy of this book. Have a look!