Triple Vision

In this 66th episode of Triple Vision, the team talks with Jeff Tom, a retired lawyer for the California legislature, and past President of the California Council of the Blind. Jeff is also a current Board member of the American Council of the Blind, and the Chair of it’s Advocacy Steering Committee. For some time now Triple Vision has wanted to know about some of the differences in advocacy and s...

In this 65th episode the Triple Vision Team tackles the complicated issue of Medical Assistance in Dying, or MAID. In 2021 Canada’s parliament revised its MAID legislation to allow for MAID in circumstances other than a death being foreseeable and imminent. As a result, MAID is now available to Canadians who have a "grievous and irremediable medical condition", which can include a seriou...

To start 2026 the Triple Vision team speaks with Mike Morrice, the disability and Inclusion critic for the Green Party of Canada. Mike was the Member of Parliament for Kitchener Centre between 2021 and 2025 when he pushed hard on behalf of Canadians with disabilities to ensure the Canada Disability Benefit would become a reality. In this month’s podcast he talks with us, a day before the federal b...

In triple Vision’s 63rd episode we tackle the issue of diversity, equity, and inclusion. President Trump’s second term has placed DEI under attack in the United States, and there are rumblings of discontent in Canada around the practice as well. To answer some of the questions around this, Karoline and Peter speak with Varsha Naik of the Regional Diversity Round Table (RDR). Located to the west of...

In this fourth and final episode for Disability History Month, the Triple Vision team talks with Ma-Nee Chacaby about her book "A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa Cree Elder". Co-written with Mary Louisa Plummer, the book won Canada Reads 2025 as the "one book to change the narrative". In this compelling podcast Ma-Nee talks about why she wrote the book...

In this third podcast in Disability History Month, Triple vision contributors Vic Pereira and Diana Brent discuss the autobiography "Stars Come Out Within" by the much loved Canadian children’s author Jean Little. Little wrote over 50 books, many of them dealing with the topic of disability, writing about the topic long before writers began to treat kids with disabilities as their own pe...

In this second podcast for Disability History month, and Triple Vision’s 60th episode, host Hanna Leavitt speaks with Miguel Agayo of the Accessibility Hamilton Alliance about the book “The blind Mechanic”: The Amazing Story of Eric Davidson, Survivor of the 1917 Halifax Explosion”. Written by his daughter, Marilyn Davidson Elliott, the book is a biography of a pioneering Haligonian who defied all...

September is Disability History Month in the city of Hamilton. This September the Triple Vision team is collaborating with the Accessibility Hamilton Alliance and students from McMaster University to bring listeners a podcast per week focussing on disability history as told through books. In this first podcast Ruth Vallis talks about her book Love is Blind which details her life as one of the firs...

This is the second part of a two-part series where the Triple Vision team and members of its advisory committee sit down with Angela Bonfanti, the new CEO of CNIB to talk about where the organization is going. We get into the topics of the high unemployment rates of persons who are blind, deafblind, and partially sighted, and how the organization’s come to Work program is trying to address this. A...

In a two-part series the Triple Vision team and guests sit down with CNIB’s newest Chief Executive Officer, Angela Bonfanti, to talk about what CNIB is, and where it is going. In August 2024 Bonfanti became the organizations’ first female leader. In this first of two podcasts the team brings in two members of its advisory committee, Marcia yale and Vic Pereira to help guide the discussion. We have...

In our episode 56 the Triple Vision team turns its attention to an issue which it has been wanting to highlight for some time now, the increasing rates of guide dog refusals in Canada. On December 21, 2024 Jessica Rathwell tried to board a bus from Surrey BC to Kamloops to meet her family for Christmas. To her shock the bus driver refused to let her board because she said that Jessica had not give...

This month the Triple vision team has fun with one of our favorite podcasts, Happy Hour! In this episode we set aside some of the thornier issues about living with blindness in Canada, and tell stories about the lighter side! With guests Kaye Leslie, Sylvia Jonas, Vic Perera, and Triple Vision members Charlie Ayotte, Karoline Bourdeau and Peter Field we relax over a beverage of choice and talk abo...

In this first podcast of 2025 the Triple Vision team speaks with Tim Nolan. Tim recently retired from a 31-year career at McMaster University in Hamilton, finishing up as Director of Student Accessibility Services. But Tim also dedicated over 22 years of his own time sitting on various iterations of the City of Hamilton’s advisory committee for persons with disabilities, including eight years as i...

In this second part of the Triple Vision team’s exploration of attitudes of the Christian church towards people who are blind, deafblind and partially sighted, Peter and Karoline talk to Danny Leung of the Joy Beyond Vision community. Danny is a pastor located north of Toronto. He connects Asian and non-Asian communities from Toronto to Vancouver. Offering a support network as well as programs and...

In this Triple Vision episode the team returns to its historical roots to discuss the impact of the church towards persons with disabilities, and those with blindness in particular. Shortly after the industrial revolution, as families moved from the countryside to the cities, a culture of blind begging emerged, only to be compounded by a rise in Syphilis leading to an even greater prevalence of bl...

In episode 51 the Triple vision talks transportation, specifically "floating" bus stops with guest host Richard Marion and First Vice President of the Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians Linda Bartram. "Floating" bus stops or "island" bus stops are bus stops which pedestrians must access by crossing an often-uncontrolled bike lane. While part of "active" transportation measures, they also pos...

In this, our 50th episode, the Triple Vision team engages listeners in a fascinating discussion on aspects of Canadian identity that we don't always think about. We speak with Sheyfali Saujani who, at the time of our interview, was completing her PhD based on her Personal experiences with multiculturalism, her life as a racialized immigrant, and a former CBC journalist. She also happens to be an i...

In this weeks episode, Carolyn and Peter talk with Kelly MacDonald of AMI. They asked the question; In a world of increasing integration for people who are blind, death blind, and partially sided, is there still a need for specialized broadcasters such as AMI? In this entertaining podcast Kelly answers this question, while providing humourous anecdotes along the way about his broadcasting career....

Welcome to a special episode of TripleVision entitled Happy Hour 2024 . In this hour the TripleVision team and community guests will share war stories and humourous encounters of what it is like to be a blind person navigating in a sighted world.

In episode 47 the Triple Vision team speaks with Sharlyn Ayotte, the Founder of T-Base Communications, now Allyant. We talk to her on the day of her retirement when she looks back on her long and pioneering career as an entrepreneur who pushed the boundaries on accessibility and universal design. As T-base the company was responsible for the Info touch system which delivered real time information...

In this month's podcast Peter and Karoline speak with Canada's Chief Accessibility Officer Stephanie Cadieux. Calling herself Influencer in Chief Ms. Cadieux talks candidly about the progress made to date on the implementation of the Accessible Canada Act, and the long road still ahead before Canada is expected to be accessible by 2040. Too often accessibility is seen as a charitable act...

In this month's podcast Peter Field of the Triple Vision team takes listeners on a tour of his hobby farm in Ashcroft British Columbia. Peter became fascinated about how blind individuals could take up farming following an interview on podcast 22 with Professor Geoffrey Reaume of York University. In that podcast Professor Reaume explained how, prior to the industrial revolution, blind individ...

In Triple Vision's first podcast reporting from location, Peter and Karoline talk with researchers and participants at the Co-Design Festival organized by the CNIB's Research Team. On March 11 participants gathered at the Microsoft campus in Toronto to talk AI, accessible competencies, inclusive and ethical research and designing accessible blood pressure monitors. In this podcast Peter...

Uncovering Book Clubs: Why Book Clubs are More Accessible to Individuals who are Blind than Ever Before In this month's podcast Karoline and Peter uncover the world of book clubs for individuals who are blind, deafblind, and partially sighted. It used to be that it was very difficult for individuals with visual impairments to join book clubs, but now, with the proliferation of books available in s...

Re-imagining Human Rights - Let's Take This to Another Two Levels In this month's episode of Triple Vision, the team follows up on the interview it did with Dean Stacey of the Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians, produced in December 2023. In that episode Dean talked about the Alliance's attempts to overturn a decision by the Canadian Human Rights commission not to hear a compl...