To those I have ever dined with, to those I will some day dine with: I don’t care what you eat. Joe and I are vegetarians. We don’t discuss this fact with people unless they ask and we are always careful with out answers. But, for the purposes of writing this, I need to be […]
Web Version Like Tweet Forward TABLE OF CONTENTS • January 2017 Newsletter • Counting down to the 2017 Special Olympics World Games • Make a splash with the 2017 Polar Plunge • Awareness and insights at the World Outlook Financial Conference • Sobeys Better Food Fund launching soup fundraiser for Special Olympics • Building provincial […]
The Self Advocates of Semiahmoo(SAS) are a group made up of awesome people with diverse abilities and forward thinking ideas. SAS is about real change. SAS members gain confidence, friendships and create meaningful experiences. There are lots of ways to be a part of SAS; meetings, speaking, karaoke nights, fundraisers, conferences,Community Inclusion month, Surrey Eagles […]
CLBC recognizes all nominees for the 2016 Widening Our World (WOW) awards for their efforts to build inclusion, create employment opportunities, and increase people’s access to community and social networks. Below is a list of all nominees from across British Columbia. including this year’s four WOW Award Winners. You can click on each nominee’s name […]
I am a bigot. This acknowledgement causes me pain. I’m making it public because I want to change. Sometimes it’s hard to be intentional in your interactions and even harder in your interpretations of your world. The instantaneous judgement you make of another, the judgments that happen, seemingly before thought, certainly without thought, those, where […]
Today in Canada is Bell Let’s Talk Day. It’s a corporate fundraiser where Bell donates money for calls and text to support mental health initiatives. One of the goals is to fight the stigma that surrounds mental heath and the prejudice which is inspired by the assumptions that come with that stigma. I understand the […]
We were leaving the movie theatre with the girls and just outside the door was a fellow, sitting on the ground, bundled up against the cold. He had a sign that simply said, “Please help, I am hungry.” In front of him he had placed a small receptacle for people to toss change in. I […]
There is a small convenience and news store that I like and when I’m nearby I always pop in to buy my lottery tickets. It’s very small and yet there is room for me to move around in so I can be in front of where the trays of scratch and (usually) lose tickets are […]
By Sheenagh Morrison I’ve travelled to New Zealand over 10 times because I have family down there. Family is very important to me. So is travelling! It is 14 hours on the plane from Vancouver direct to Auckland. This trip I had a two hour layover in Vancouver. I love traveling because I see my […]
I’ve been asked, several times by different people, why I haven’t written more about Trump. I’ve been chastised a couple of times form not bringing a disability perspective to the phenomenon of Trumps rise from ‘can’t win’ to ‘did win’ in the states. My only response has been, thus far, is that there are already […]
