Attention Self Advocates CLBC and BC Non Profit Housing Association are asking you to participate by answering a few questions online survey for Housing Task Force and their partners to increase access to affordable housing. Where do you want to live? What does your ideal home look like? The Inclusive Housing Task Force, co-chaired […]
I had been requested by a woman with Down Syndrome that I had come into acquaintance with to attend a meeting with her father and her sister. Her mother had passed away a few years earlier and the passage through grief had brought them all closer together. There was resistance to my being there, but […]
Several of the hotels that we stayed in over the last few days on the road to and from St. Louis had renovated or ‘updated’. They all looked great, but looks can be very deceiving. In the first one I got off the elevator to turn towards the room and sank into porridge soft carpet. […]
We were having lunch at a small cafe in a mall near the hotel in which we were staying. The food court was a few feet down and around the corner from us. We we chatting over our meal when Joe’s face froze. He said quietly to someone other than me, “Put the fucking phone […]
We’d had dinner in a packed restaurant, with waitstaff that had no idea how to sit a disabled customer, and were on our way out. I came through the / doors and saw that a huge truck had used the cut curb to pull back up into a parking space to unload and store equipment […]
We got to the restaurant a little later than we had planned. But what’s a vacation for but to make plans and then freely set about to mess them all up? We were greeted by a woman with a disability, she used a cane for stability and for assisting with movement. She was warm and […]
This morning I had to have an x-ray, a great way to start a vacation, and, yes, everything is fine. We arrived to a long line up and a sinking feeling that we’d be there for hours. Turned out that we got through the process faster than we did at the drive-thru at Harvey’s We […]
Today we begin a week’s vacation. Our hallway is lined with suitcases. Packing is nearly done. This is all stuff that Joe does and I am the exceedingly grateful recipient of his expertise. This means that I get to sit and do nothing while he makes satisfied noises every time he remembers something he was […]
A very, very, very long time ago I wrote about seeing an elderly woman being supported by her son with Down Syndrome. She was a wheelchair user, something that at the time seemed new to her, and he carefully guided the chair around people and other barriers. I wondered, then, if she ever, when he […]
News release August 14, 2019 Ottawa, Ontario Employment and Social Development Canada Accessibility in Canada is about creating communities, workplaces and services that enable everyone to participate fully in society without barriers. The Government of Canada believes that all Canadians deserve the same opportunities and chances at success. The Honourable Carla Qualtrough, Minister of Public […]
