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Experience the intensity and heart of elite Goalball as Canada’s best athletes go head-to-head in the Women’s and Men’s Gold Medal matches from the 2025 National Senior Goalball Championship in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Hosted by Alex Smyth , with expert analysis from Tony Badger —a Paralympian with deep roots in the sport—this double-header captures the passion, grit, and teamwork that define Goal...

Play by Play and analysis of the Gold and Bronze medal games of the the 2025 Canadian Blind Hockey Tournament from the Mattamy Centre in Toronto, March 23, 2025. Play by play by Nicco Cardarelli and Mike Ross. Hosted by Alex Smyth of Para Sport Nation. Panelist Jeff Ryman. Interviews with athletes, sponsors and organizers. Producers Andrika De Lanerolle, Marc Aflalo. Sound by Sam Baba. 

Blind Sports Nova Scotia hosts the 8th annual CNIB Nova Scotia Open Goalball Tournament, the only competition of its kind east of Montreal. Saturday & Sunday, October 26 & 27, 2024, blind athletes from across North America gather in Halifax at LeMarchant St. Thomas School to compete in the only Paralympic sport created specifically for athletes who are blind and visually impaired. AMI presents the...

AMI-audio Live covers the 2024 View Point Conference at the Toronto Reference Library! View Point is an educational series by Fighting Blindness Canada that brings you the latest information about vision health and research in Canada and abroad. Join AMI Today host Jacob Shymanski as he engages with event organizers and hears from experts in the field. This program originally aired on Saturday, Se...

On Tuesday, May 21st 2024, Jacob Shymanski and Kelly MacDonald attended the Vision Health Conference at the Christ Church Cathedral in Ottawa, Ontario. This year’s theme was the role of artificial intelligence in vision health. The conference provided a wide view of the potential uses of AI in the field of vision health, and focused on technologies that are the most developed and most likely to be...

On April 20th, 2024, Andy Frank hosted the live broadcast of the annual CNIB Guide Dogs with Purpose Gala. It was a formal event from the Delta Hotel in Regina which raised money for the training of guide dogs in Saskatchewan. The evening included a live description of the guide dog red carpet, a speech from Guide Dog owner Louise Michaud, the Assistant Deputy Minister, Housing; President & CEO Sa...

The Canadian National Junior Goalball Championships were held at the Bob Niven Centre on Canada Olympic Road in Calgary on April 21, 2024. Nicco Cardarelli delivers the play by play of the exciting men’s and women’s championship games! Andy Frank speaks with referee Claude Dagenais about the rules of goalball, Stephen Burke of Canadian Blind Sports, Linda McPhail of ASRAB, and some young aspiring...

AMI-audio's Jacob Shymanski visits Accessible Sports Expo in Niverville, Manitoba, presented by Accessible Sport Connection Manitoba  on March 30, 2024.  During this hour, Jacob speaks with representatives from Prairie Strides , Blind Hockey Manitoba , Beyond the Perimeter Badminton , Wheelchair Fencing Manitoba , Para Storm Swimming , Underground Adaptive ,   VIRN , and Volt Hockey. This event pr...

The final game of the 50th Western Canadian Blind Curling Championships from The Granite Curling Club in Edmonton, Alberta, on Saturday, March 23, 2024. Finalists are the teams from Prince George and Vancouver. Play-by-play and colour commentary by Jim Jerome and Marcel Rocque, with Andy Frank, Carrie Anton and various curlers and organizers.

Every year, The Zero Project seeks inclusive, innovative and scalable solutions from around the world to submit their nominations. They are then evaluated in a multi-step process that includes peer review by thousands and voting. A select number of solutions receive a Zero Project award and support through the Zero Project network. The following is a compilation of AMI-audio readers reading a brie...

As part of AMI-Audio’s coverage of the 2023 International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we asked a group of our friends, regular contributors and employees with disabilities for their thoughts on the IDPD. More specifically, we asked: 1. What does the IDPD mean to you? 2. What are steps society can take to tangibly improve the lives of persons with disabilities? This is an audio collage, of so...

The 30th annual Canadian Disability Hall of Fame Awards Induction Ceremony luncheon took place on October 13th, 2023, at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto. It was presented by The Canadian Foundation for Physically Disabled Persons. The following is the podcast version of AMI-audio’s live coverage of the event. As mentioned in the broadcast, the interviews with this year’s inductees, along...

The Great Valentine Gala, held every February in Toronto, is the Canadian Foundation for Physically Disabled Persons (CFPDP)’s No. 1 fundraising event. It has raised over $35 million and has become a glittering showcase for the unheralded achievements of Canadians of all abilities. In 2023, the Gala was hosted by Suhana Meharchand, and featured the presentation of numerous awards issued to individ...

AMI's Mike Ross, a Durham Region resident and supporter of the Abilities Centre in Whitby, Ont., interviews athletes, organizers and coaches that are participating in the Durham Region 2023 Ontario Parasport Games. Guests include Don Terry (0:10), James Titmarsh (5:45), Ramya Amuthan (10:35), Joe Millage (15:45), Jon Thurston (22:28), Mike Frogely (28:58) and Nico Iemma (37:01).

Coverage from the bronze and gold medal games.

Broadcasting live from the historic Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto, AMI-audio brings you the inaugural Girl's and Women's program at the Canadian National Blind Hockey Tournament (2022). Hosted by Jeff Ryman, play by play by Nicco Cardarelli with colour commentary by Mike Ross and Claire Buchannan.

The Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians (AEBC) presents a special virtual conference titled “Breaking Barriers - Making the Invisible Visible”. It focuses on the realities of living with an invisible disability. Opening Remarks: Minette Samaroo, AEBC National Vice President, AEBC Toronto Chapter President Keynote Speaker: Melanie Taddeo, author of “The Power of You” Guest Speaker: Maddy Dever...

The Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians (AEBC) Toronto Chapter presents a special virtual conference titled “Together One Voice, More Choices - Don’t Leave Us Behind”. It focuses on the way the disability community has been disproportionately left behind during the pandemic. Hosted by Joeita Gupta of AMI. AEBC host Minette Samaroo Opening Remarks-Michael Prince, Professor, University of Victo...

In this fourth episode, we meet tech-related awardees from among the Innovative Practices category, including Phia Damsma of Australia regarding Sonokids/Ballyland (1:20), Adriana Gomes Alves of Univali University in Brazil (8:51), James Northridge of UrAbility in Cork, Ireland (15:19) and Robert Palmquist of Streamer in the USA (23:12) Produced and hosted by Andy Frank, with technical assistance...

In this seventh and final episode, we celebrate the Innovative Practice award issued to Canadian Rick Hansen with an excerpt from a recent interview with AMI-audio host Joeita Gupta about his foundation’s Accessibility Certification Program (1:52). Plus, we meet Evgeny Bukharov of the All-Russian Society of Disabled People, who run training programs for people with disabilities and representatives...

In this sixth episode, we continue our look at Innovative Practices, including interviews with Sheri Horn-Bunk of Taft Community College in California about their Transition to Independent Living (TIL) Program (1:46) and Michal Rimon of Access Israel about training teachers for inclusive education (17:15). Program Produced and hosted by Andy Frank, with technical assistance from Paula Dineen. Tota...

In this fifth episode, we examine Zero Project’s Impact Transfer Program, which is a partnership between the Essl Foundation, Fundación Descúbreme and Ashoka. It supports organizations to replicate their social impact and innovation in other countries and contexts. We speak with Löic van Cutsem of Ashoka, (1:11), Carlos Pereira of Livox in Brazil, (4:50) Dr. Ayesha Saeed Husaini of The Manzil Cent...

In this third episode, we meet an awardee from among the Innovative Practices category: Betsy Beaumon, CEO of Benetech which launched Bookshare in 2001. Available nationwide in the United States and in 87 other countries, Bookshare provides books and printed materials in five accessible formats, such as electronic Braille and DAISY synchronized text with audio. Produced and hosted by Andy Frank, w...

Description: In this second episode, we meet awardees from among the Innovative Practices category: Roshan Galvaan, Harsha Kathard and Teresa Lorenzo from University of Cape Town, South Africa (1:06) and Kavita Murugkar of The Universal Design Centre at BNCA University in India (15:05). Produced and hosted by Andy Frank, with technical assistance from Paula Dineen. Total run time 24:28

In this first episode, we meet Michael Fembek, the Director of the Zero Project who provides an overview of Zero Project and the conference. Then, we meet awardees from among the Innovative Policies category: Regina Hausiku of the Ministry of Education in Namibia, as well as Julie Michaud and Isabelle Cowan of the New Brunswick Department of Education and Early Childhood. Produced and hosted by An...