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Today Canada’s Supreme Court equated disability with the right to be assisted in killing oneself. The Court’s decision is the most permissive approach to assisted suicide in the world. Rather than require people to have a terminal illness, people with disabilities simply have to express their life is not worth living.

EDMONTON, Sept. 19, 2014 /CNW/ – The Alberta Association for Community Living (AACL) remains deeply opposed to institutionalization.  Like most Albertans, tens of thousands of Alberta families with sons and daughters with developmental disabilities were looking forward to a new premier who promised a bold vision guided by an ethical and moral compass.  Instead Premier Prentice’s first and only […]

EDMONTON, Sept. 5, 2014 /CNW/ – The Alberta Association for Community Living (AACL) is appalled at the NDP’s gross error in judgment in calling for individuals with developmental disabilities to once again be removed from their families and communities to be hidden away in the dark recesses of institutions.    NDP Leadership Candidate David Eggen stated this […]