There is just over one week left to enter someone for the 2016 WOW (Widening our World) Award. Nominations close November 30. It’s a great opportunity for you to help someone earn provincial recognition for inclusion. CLBC is requesting that each service provider, community agency and community council consider submitting one nomination for a […]
Hello! We’d like to introduce you to the Universal Gaming Club in Richmond BC. Universal Gaming Club is a place for people to go to and enjoy video games all around. We welcome anyone that joins us – it does not matter how anyone identifies themselves, because nobody cares about it – we’re all […]
“Please!?!?” she was pleading with me. I had come out of the exercise room and was heading up to our hotel room, while Joe was out getting the laundry done. I rode up, in silence, with a woman of about my age. We got off the elevator and I began pushing down to our room. […]
So, I went to the exercise room in a hotel for the first time. I found a machine where I could do two exercises, one was to take hold of a bar from on high and pull it down, this motion lifted a preset weight on the machine. The other, on the same machine, was […]
Some people don’t get it. And even though they are clueless to the situation, I’ve got to be nice because I need their help. On our flight out here, Joe and I had mistakenly booked our seats such that there was one empty between us. It was a busy flight and that seat was soon […]
“Hi, how are you?” It was the wrong question to ask me at that time. I’m at a conference and facing a lot of issues regarding accessibility. I have to be in a different hotel because the host hotel doesn’t have fully accessible rooms, there is no where for me to sit in my wheelchair […]
Yesterday, someone who I needed to listen to me, listened to me. It felt amazing. Now this wasn’t a personal chat, and it wasn’t in my professional capacity either, it was a situation of me, as service user to another person, service provider. I went into the conversation knowing that I needed them to be […]
Many years ago a woman approached me after a conference that I had spoken at, she seemed nervous, and when she got close enough, I saw that her eyes were moist. I didn’t recognize her, at first, but then she spoke. I was grabbed by the guts and thrown back years in time. To high […]
So I’m going to brag a bit. Let me start by saying that, as I’ve been exercising and talking exercise with people, I’ve discovered that many people I know use visualization as part of their routine, as do I. However I don’t visualize myself in new smaller clothes or with big shapely arms, although those […]
Stacey shares a smile with her mother Beryl while moving into her new home at the inclusive Chorus Apartments. Paddi and Beryl are mothers and friends whose daughters both lived at home for over 30 years and recently moved into their own apartments. This is one of the biggest transitions […]
