TORONTO – Era il paladino dei diritti dei disabili e per tutta la sua vita ha lottato contro l’ableism, l’abilismo, cioè quel particolare razzismo nei confronti delle persone diversamente abili. Con lui se ne va, dunque, un baluardo di quei diritti: ex giornalista televisivo e ventottesimo vicepremier dell’Ontario dal 2007 al 2014, David C. Onley è morto all’età di 72 anni…
TORONTO – He was the champion of the rights of disabled people and throughout his life he fought against ableism, that is, that particular racism towards people with disabilities. With him therefore goes a bulwark of those rights: former television journalist and twenty-eighth deputy premier of Ontario from 2007 to 2014, David C. Onley (in the pic above, from his Facebook page), died at the age of 72. (more…)