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• Outlook 2025-12-01 - Winding Down & Ramping Up, Early December Mixed Bag Monday

  Winding down and ramping up. Bf Barry and guide dog Oyster (not Lester) are back for a pre-Christmas visit and join us as our additional Outlook crew. The Centre for Independent Living Toronto, Fanshawe College and George Brown and Toronto Metropolitan University, Disability Without Poverty, and Alliance For Equality of Blind Canadians all celebrate December 3rd’s United Nations International Day of/for Persons With Disabilities along with our other holiday related news. This week on the show we’re pre-recording because of last minute 70th birthday celebrations, but we did a Friday night recording discussing IDPD and related events, Barry shares his AI personal assistance/unpaid testers and snowy return to Canada diaries, and we discuss how “seeing isn’t knowing” on this Mixed Bag Early December episode. We’ve been eating a lot of cake lately and we talk Thanksgiving in the States, how this time of year can be a difficult one for many, and yet the arrival of changes of the holiday season becoming more diverse. On a high note, Happy 70th birthday to our dad, who met our mom 50 years ago this month, while we look back a few weeks ago to a special honouring of an early sibling organ transplant story at London, Ontario’s Health Sciences Centre. Brother/co-host Brian’s been winding down as the end of this year draws near while sister/co-host Kerry has been ramping up with Blind Beginnings, (more about that in January). Give Leona’s article a read: https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/blindness-photography-paul-strand-walker-evans-jacob-riis-1234763708/ Check out the George Brown/TMU event with David Lepofsky: https://tinyurl.com/4k85hpnh

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• Outlook 2025-11-24 - Inclusion Benefits Everyone With AEBC President Marcia Yale

  INCLUSION BENEFITS EVERYONE December 3rd is The United Nations International Day of Persons With Disabilities where the theme for 2025 is: “Fostering disability inclusive societies for advancing social progress" And this year, on Saturday, December 6th, from 1 to 4 PM EST, Alliance For Equality of Blind Canadians is putting on a virtual day of events to mark the occasion. This week on Outlook we’re speaking with President of AEBC, Marcia Yale, about going from the busy streets of Toronto to the busy summer/sleepy winters of Huntsville, about her experience at what was then the Ontario School for the Blind and then being integrated locally at home, and about how she got involved in AEBC and ended up in her current position there. So check out the podcast and stay tuned for events all week, including replays on Youtube as We’re discussing more about AEBC and the speakers and panel happening on the 6th - all with her guide dog companion Nottingham supervising our conversation. It’s true that inclusion does benefit everyone and that’s one of our main messages (of universal design principles) at the heart of what we do on this show. To register for the conference, click the following link: https://tinyurl.com/36bxf8v6 Or email [email protected] And learn more about AEBC on their official website: https://www.blindcanadians.ca

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• Outlook 2025-11-10 - Indigenous Disability Awareness Month, Mixed Bag Monday

  It’s November and Indigenous Disability Awareness Month (IDAM) raises awareness about and celebrates the significance social economic and cultural contributions that Indigenous people experiencing disability bring to our communities. It’s also an opportunity to mobilise to address the complex ongoing intersectional challenges Indigenous people face in their everyday lives. According to IDAM: Over 30 percent of Indigenous Canadians age 15 and over experience disability compared with 22 percent of all Canadians aged 15 and over. Created in 2015 by "Indigenous Disability Canada, British Columbia Aboriginal Network On Disability Society," proclaimed by government of British Columbia 2017 - United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities recommended Canada officially proclaim and recognise IDAM nationally every November. For the first boots on the ground Mixed Bag show of the season, this week on Outlook we’re marking IDAM, Disabled Veterans Day, and Remembrance Day. Then sister/co-host Kerry shares about a disability focus group held by Irish literary journal The Stinging Fly, the “Say It Plain) course put on by her writer/activist friend Kerra, and howling like a wolf in community with a group of women creatives facilitated by other friend and previous Outlook guest Jen. Speaking of British Columbia, we’re talking fear and risk as Kerry is traveling solo there, to the Blind Beginnings offices in Vancouver, for a training weekend, facilitated by a federal grant to put on what are known as Blindness 101 workshops in Ontario during 2026 (more to come on this early next year). Question: About how many needles have you had in your lifetime? Have you ever tried to count? We both wish we would have counted. We’re discussing an event this month we’re attending, with our parents, as the four of us who’ve donated and received kidneys are excited to be taking part in a celebration of 50 years since one of the earliest living donor transplants from one sister to another at London Health Sciences Centre back on November 19th, 1975. Finally, Santa, if you’re listening, Kerry could use a new white cane for Christmas. Happy 70th birthday Dad and check out Irish literary journal The Stinging Fly mentioned in this episode: https://stingingfly.org Listen to an episode from the Outlook archives with Neil Belanger, CEO of The British Columbia Aboriginal Network on Disability Society: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/outlook-2021-12-06-neil-belanger-from-british-columbia/id1527876739?i=1000544243467

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• Outlook 2025-11-03 - Blue Jays Woes & Halloween Horrors

  Don’t mind the puns in this one, but we’re entering the “home stretch” of 2025 as we discuss how to “level the playing field” for us, as blind Blue Jays fans, when comparing baseball radio broadcast with that done on television on this Monday after the Big Game. This week on Outlook it’s a MLB Mixed Bag show as we’re joined, virtually, by BF Barry until he can join us in studio soon--to lament the close call in Game Seven of this year’s World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. We give a post-series blow-by-blow of watching the games together, the three of us, with Barry’s international perspective, along with brother/co-host Brian’s info about the father-son connection (Dan and Ben Shulman who broadcast on TV and radio respectively), and a special Radio Western connection to Dan Shulman who used to call Western Mustangs games, and an example of an exciting moment from the final game, using a clip of the radio broadcasters to illustrate the unique playing field levelling for those of us who cannot see the games visually. Shout out to both Ben Shulman and Chris Leroux for calling the games on the radio as it seems the TV broadcasters more often get recognized. Then sister/co-host Kerry shares about her Halloween (first year going trick-or-treating) in a while, alongside learning some sad news about an old classmate, all the while describing using her friend’s daughter’s plastic sorcerer’s staff as white cane for the evening plus the haunted house they walked through, a notion truly scary to Kerry in most circumstances. First episode after clocks went back (a lack of sleep for some of us) as we three are all hyped up with the close call loss, a series so close to being a win for the Jays and for Canada, as emotions run high with Kerry sharing what it’s like, looking back at one whole year now since the worst guy for the job got voted back in the Whitehouse - so from one horror to another and the disappointment all across the country, we end with a song from Obama’s POV. "No man’s ignorance will ever be his virtue.” —Seriously, from This American Life, written by Sara Bareilles, sung by Leslie Odom Jr. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI8TCA3fJcs

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• Outlook 2025-10-27 - Introducing "Picture This ADC (Audio Description Collaborative)"

  Picture this - five ladies, two blind and three sighted and from Canada, the States, and Europe; getting together in a group to practice the skill of creating good quality audio description. Practice requires we now put our training into practice. Introducing “PICTURE THIS ADC (Audio Description Collaborative)” This week on Outlook, find out who the founders of Picture This are as individuals and the skills they bring to the collaboration - join in with Kerry Kijewski, Stephanie Johnson, Kristina Cosumano, Maureen Austen, and Lolly Lejewski. The five of them gather for a group chat to share what experiences with audio description have taught them, how each came to the group initially, the art and the craft of it, and the mission undertaken collaboratively to make audio description clear and inclusive. Picture This (in the mind’s eye) creates quality audio description for blind people...for short films and documentaries, streaming programming, along with exhibits, museums, and galleries. Their combined experience, knowledge, and skill pooled together has made the collaborative they now are and they care deeply about making art, culture, and media accessible for blind users, coming together from across North America and Europe to do just that. For inquiries email the team at: [email protected] Check out Kerry’s previous work on behalf of audio description availability: https://www.woodstocksentinelreview.com/2018/03/21/woodstock-resident-hopes-to-help-blind-people-enjoy-the-movies-with-better-descriptive-audio And check out links for where you can find some of us and our work: https://www.stephaniejohnson.pro https://kayconsulting.ca https://licustranslation.com Thanks to Brian Kijewski and Nick Marrs for their audio engineering.

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