Edmonton store bans girl's service dog twice

An Edmonton woman has filed a human rights complaint after her autistic nine-year-old daughter and service dog were told to leave the west-end Winners for the second time in three months.

"I don't believe that anybody should feel like a second-class citizen in any place ... and especially as a child," said Alison Ainsworth, Emily's mother.

The discount clothing store ordered Ainsworth's daughter, Emily, and her dog Levi to leave the premises last July, but later apologized to the family.

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It really is unfair to the person with the disability when a place doesn't allow a service dog, like it is kinda a human rights violation.

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What possible aid could a dog provide that a mother can't?

winners is run by a bunch of half-wits. you take the time to apologize and invite the little girl to go shopping and then you kick her out again.

it's like beating a dead horse. the family should just sue winners. they'll never learn. maybe if winners paid more than minimum wage to it's managers it would attract people with at least some resemblance of intelligence.

winners sounds like the kind of store that instead of installing ramps and automatic doors, they added more steps and curbs and disabled the sensors on the door.

Originally posted by Evolutionsend
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What possible aid could a dog provide that a mother can't?

Mom's are not always around. Do you expect the mom to follow her around at school and other such things? Do you expect her mom to live for ever? When this girl is on her own, this dog provides her the aid she needs and keeps her safe from harm....

That is beside the point, anyway.

The issue here is that this girl is being refused her right to enter the store with her service dog. It is discrimination against the handicapped and it is disgusting.

The people working at that store must me stupid. The dog is identified as a service dog and there fore is more than allowed in stores....

Education regarding people with disabilities should be in order.... Honestly, they could sue for discrimination and win....

Winners parent company happens to be Marshall's in the US

It's Canada's murder capital now..
41 homicides in less than 1 year.

I live 3 hours away in another major city and we've had like 3.

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Winners parent company happens to be Marshall's in the US

And, another branded discount store name: "T J Maxx".

Note their stock symbol....."TJX"

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www.nsd.on.ca...

Enhances independence and makes it slightly more possible for mom to shop, and get anything accomplished. Its the right thing to do, because we don't have R2D2's yet.

National Service Dogs is committed to enriching the quality of life and enhancing the independence of children and families living with autism and special needs by providing them with specially trained Labrador and Golden Retrievers.

www.canadasguidetodogs.com...

Service Dogs are trained to assist people who have a wide variety of mobility impairments and other hidden disabilities, such as seizures, psychiatric disorders, life threatening medical problems, or chronic pain. These dogs provide services to disabled individuals helping them function with greater self-sufficiency; prevent injuries; and summon help in a crisis.

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Autism service dogs are trained to help the handler process sensory information. Many autism service dogs are trained in guide work/obstacle avoidance (the same thing a guide dog does) to help the handler with visual stimuli.

As with hearing assistance dogs for the deaf, the dogs may also be trained to alert their handler to important noises or other things requiring human intervention, such as smoke or a smoke alarm, a crying baby, a telephone ringing, a knock at the door. For a person with autism, it isn't quickly obvious which of the many external stimuli is the urgent one requiring their immediate attention. A person with autism must sort through both major and minor stimuli—the sound of crickets, the smell of the fabric softener on their clothes, a car driving past outside—in order to determine which of these, if any, needs their attention. They may understand that a smoke alarm is urgent and requires them to exit the building, but their autism may cause them to take longer going about it

No store has the legal right to do this in Canada.