DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, August 1, 2014
-- a long, nasty, ugly and brutal case in Canada
Jasmin Simpson is a deaf counselor with the Canadian
Hearing Society in Toronto. She was angry that her
college debt was 60 percent higher than hearing students.
Seven years ago she challenged the Canada Student Loan
Program, which promised equality for everyone, both deaf
and hearing. The government offered to forgive her
entire debt on one condition - that she will not go to
the court. She refused, saying it was not fair for others
that had to suffer the same thing! The government's
response was ugly but she would not back down. The
Ontario Supreme Court was involved but backed off.
As it stands right now, this case is supposed to go to
trial. Will it? Already the Canadian government is
pretty much embarrassed by the whole thing.
-- the reason USA is slow on text emergency calls
We have the updated technology for these deaf text
emergency calls (fire, police, medical). Yet, according
to a newspaper report, only 100 emergency call centers
out of 6,000 in USA have the equipment for these
deaf text emergency calls. This is shocking and
disappointing. Why is this happening? Lack of money!
-- a deputy sheriff; love him or hate him
In Denver, deputy sheriff Steven Valerio was fired
from his job. He was fired for getting into a bad
fight with a hearing prisoner. Should he be hated
by the deaf? Well, before he was fired. he was named
the Employee of the Month by the prison as he attended
sign language classes to be able to communicate with
his deaf prisoners. How many prison officials would do
that?
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