Not the Food Court This series of reviews is for people with disabilities and for those that support them. The goal is to highlight restaurants (chains and local owned) who are providing a dining experience that people with a wide variety of disabilities can partake in. I do not expect any of the places we […]
Over the many years I’ve been involved in the disability movement, I’ve interacted with many different advocacy groups. On the surface, all of these groups sound like they’re the real deal. Caring individuals who, for the most part, genuinely want to advocate for better care for the disabled or who want to provide […]
Written by Cathy Grant Federal Accessible Act as well as the BC Accessible Act we need this badly. The protocol from the UN to be sign, we also need this badly. Last but not the least, is Nicholas or John Horgan to help us with my FOI to get the actual documents that we […]
Dear Minister Simpson Hello and greetings. I know that you’re busy with running a very complex and diverse ministry, and I know that you have plenty of experts giving you advice on how to change (and hopefully improve) services. As a long-term receiver of these services I believe that I too am […]
So, I was reading through the interview that Shane Simpson did with the Vancouver Sun over the weekend. I really liked a lot of what I was hearing. Indexing PWD, an increase in how much money people can make before their disability gets clawed back, and the possibility of guaranteed basic income; all good stuff […]
If you’re like me then you’ve had a lot of dealings with different organizations; service providers, wheelchair repair, cleaning services, or even home maintenance services. The list goes on and on. Some of been so bad that they were next to useless, others have been so-so. Perhaps the most frustrating are those companies […]
18 months ago, this would have been a very different conversation. 18 months ago, I would have been looking at my savings and cursing the fact that it was approaching the $5,000 asset limit. But today that wasn’t the case. Today I was wheeling into an appointment with an investment manager at my bank wanting […]
To say that many people with disabilities have a ‘conflicted’ relationship with government bureaucracy is an understatement of almost British proportions. On the one hand, most of our services and supports are paid for by government, yet this money comes with so many strings attached, hoops to jump through and barriers to breech; […]
One of the things I like to follow on the web is how new technology might change, or is changing the lives of people with disabilities. One of the areas of change coming up is with prosthetic limbs. In only a few more years, limbs that can do as much as a regular human hand/arm […]
Story by Cathy Grant So, last week a staff read to me a CBC article. At its heart the article was about the new levels of automation that are affecting and going to affect many Canadian businesses within the next ten years. The part the interested both me and my staff was around the […]
