Author’s note: This month’s column is an excerpt from my longer essay Staff: A Necessary Evil. If you want to read more about the thoughts of staffing please check out the essay at Amazon, Kobo or Smashwords. The Reality TV of My Life. Years before the Kardashians made it popular, I felt like […]
By Cathy Grant ‘Well how have you been coping with all of the snow?’ At least in the lower mainland that has been the ongoing topic of conversation for everyone over the past two months. I know people who live in the lower mainland often don’t get much sympathy from the rest of the country […]
Author by Cathy Grant I wanted to start off this year on a positive note, so I decided to talk about one of my favorite surprises of 2016; that being the comedy Speechless on ABC. I’m not one to get excited at all about TV but when a staff person showed me the trailer […]
On November 26, a friend and I headed down to Canada Place to take part in the Federal Government’s Public Engagement meeting. There with around 300 people, most of whom had a disability, we talked to the Mister of Sport and People with Disabilities about various disability issues. I learned a lot […]
‘United we stand, divided we fall’. ‘A house divided can not stand’ These are but two of the many sayings regarding the dangers of being divided in the face of opposition. Unfortunately, the wisdom of such sayings is clearly evident when it comes to how people with disabilities are treated within this province. Currently […]
This column is dedicated to Lorraine Dunlop another gentle soul who had left selfadvocate.ca hopefully for bigger and brighter things. In 2000 I moved to yet another service provider and a hole new part of the city. My goal was to find a situation where I had a core group people in my life that […]
Shorter column this month because I want everyone else to do some writing this time. Every once and a while an issue arises that is pivotal. Where the course of events can change for individuals, groups even nations. One such event was last year’s federal election, where who we were going to be as a […]
I remember it clearly, it was during the 90’s and the experts insisted that it would be better for me to feed myself than have someone feed me. So thousands of dollars were spent on consultants and equipment to theoretically allow me to eat a meal with my own hands. It was a total disaster: […]
The RDSP: Do you have yours? Even though I can’t make full use out of the Registered Disabilities Saving Plan (RDSP) myself, and thanks to the increase in asset limits within Person with Disability (PWD) benefit has somewhat decreased the need to open the RDSP, I still believe that the Registered Disability Savings Plans is […]
A few weeks ago I was asked by the Cerebral Palsy Association to come and give a short talk about goal setting, specifically in how setting goals related to finding work. Initially I was taken aback; I’m good at many things but I’m hardly a poster child for finding a regular job. Still wanting to […]
