Franke JamesIt's a milestone day for me. My op-ed is in The Star!
"My sister’s rights were taken away, like thousands of others with developmental disabilities"
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My sister was sent to a nursing home against her will. We fought and won, but thousands of others aren’t so lucky
Three years after my sister was wrongly assessed, a news exposé revealed that 2,900 young people with developmental disabilities were in nursing homes in Ontario, Franke James writes.