Triple Vision

In this month's Triple Vision episode, Peter and Karoline start to re-imagine what human rights in Canada could look like. We start this re-imagining by talking with Dean Steacy of the Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians (AEBC). AEBC had launched a complaint to the Canadian Human rights Commission (CHRC) against the federal department of Employment and Social Development Canada, on the b...

Universal Banter. How Does Assistive Technology Fit with the Idea of Universal Design? In this week's episode the Triple Vision Team, with guest host Karoline Bourdeau, joins forces with the AT Banter podcast team to discuss the interplay of assistive technology with mainstream technology towards a horizon of universal design. Join the Triple vision team, along with Steve Barclay, Ryan Fleury...

In this latest podcast, the Triple Vision team reimagines what inclusive communications could look like by speaking with Denis Boudreau, owner of the firm Inklusive communications . Denis is a writer and speaker in the area of inclusive communications. In this podcast he describes the importance of businesses and individuals including a diversity of recipients in their communications, and where th...

Beyond Average: What Could the World of Technology Look Like If It Was Designed Differently? In podcast 38 the Triple Vision team talks with Jutta Treviranus, Director of the Inclusive Design Research Centre at Ontario's OCAD University. As Triple Vision sets out to re-imagine what inclusively designed technology systems and apps could look like, Jutta brings her perspective on how designing...

In episode 37 the triple vision team talks with Kaye Leslie to re-imagine what an accessible and universally designed health care system could look like. Kaye recently moved to small town Ontario and talks about her experiences navigating the health care system in Toronto as well as in her new town of Huntsville. The team asks her how health care could be re-imagined to meet the needs of all indiv...

In this episode of Triple Vision, the team strikes out on its own, independent of Accessible Medi Inc. to continue to bring you the Triple Vision podcast. It reimagines what life could look like if blind, deafblind, and partially sighted Canadians had greater social participation in employment, education, technology, governance, and an accessible Canada with equal economic benefits. “I think the c...

An Entrepreneurship round table discussion by the Triple Vision Team. In this second in a two-part series on entrepreneurship, the Triple Vision team talks about their own paths towards entrepreneurship and self-employment. Each team member, Sharlyn, Hanna, David and Peter have all arrived at the same place, although each pursuing a different route to get there, and choosing entrepreneurship and s...

CNIB Governance with Kate Bahne from Charity Intelligence In this fourth episode looking at some of the governance issues of CNIB, the Triple Vision team speaks with Kate Behan, Managing Director of Charity Intelligence. Charity Intelligence is a non-profit organization which provides Canadians with information so they may make informed decisions about which charities to support. In this fascinati...

"In this week’s episode, the Triple Vision team talks with Kevin Shaw, a self-proclaimed entrepreneur who is currently the Digital Accessibility Lead for the online bank, Tangerine, and has some experience starting up his own businesses. The team asks Kevin questions about the challenges and rewards of being an entrepreneur with sight loss. The podcast provides an engaging look into entrepreneursh...

"In this week’s episode, the Triple Vision team speaks with Elizabeth Lalonde of the Pacific Training Centre in Victoria, and Deborah Gold of BALANCE for Blind Adults in Toronto. Elizabeth and Deborah talk about how their organizations offer rehabilitation services to the blind and visually impaired community. The podcast offers a glimpse into how Canadians do have choice, although still somewhat...

"In this third part in the Triple Vision team’s exploration of governance at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB), David Best and Peter Field talk with Chief Operating Officer, Angela Bonfanti and its new National Board Chair, Robert Fenton. Angela and Robert talk candidly about the role of the foundation in the lives of blind Canadians. They also answer some direct questions passe...

"In Part 2 of Triple Vision’s exploration of what is the single story behind governance at CNIB, Peter and Hanna speak with Mary Ellen Gabias and Albert Ruel about what they heard from Jane Beaumont and Kevin Burns in Episode 29. In our last podcast, Jane and Kevin discussed the CNIB governance structure from its origins to where it is today. At the end of this episode the Triple Vision team asked...

"The Triple Vision team starts a series on governance, in particular the governance story behind the CNIB. The team starts with a look back at how the CNIB was formed, and what it looks like now. David, Hanna and Peter speak to Jane Beaumont, CNIB Archivist and former Chair of its National Board, as well as Kevin Burns, a former Chair of CNIB’s Governance Committee. Is it possible to determine the...

"In this episode the Triple Vision team continues its exploration of the danger of a single story by speaking with Dr. M. Leona Godin. Dr. Godin, who has taught literature and humanities at New York University, is a writer, performer and educator, lecturing on art, accessibility, technology, and disability. In this episode, she speaks with Peter Field and Hanna Leavitt about the themes emerging fr...

In this episode the Triple Vision team takes a page from a Ted Talk by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie called “The Danger of a Single story”. In her Talk the author relates what happens when someone else tells the story about another person or a community, and how much they can get that story wrong. Throughout the podcast you will hear the voices of the Triple Vision team, David Best, Sha...

"In this last episode of Triple Vision’s first season, the team of David, Hanna, Sharlyn and Peter look back at their first year of podcasting and some of their most memorable moments. From Professor Serge Durflinger talking about his book, “Veterans with a Vision,” in Episode 1, to colonialism, library services and several episodes dedicated to education and employment, the team recalls what they...

In this last in a four-part series on employment, the Triple Vision team speaks to Jen Ferris and Wayne Henshall in order to answer the question: “Do employment programs for blind Canadians really work?” Jen Ferras is a "Free Agent" employed by the Government of Canada working on modernization initiatives; she has been working towards her own employment program for Canadians who are blind called “...

"In this third episode covering the unemployment story for blind Canadians, the Triple Vision team speaks with city of Winnipeg Council Member Ross Eadie. We start by going all of the way back to Episode 5, called “Cane and Ableism,” when we spoke with Gord Hudek of Ambutech Corporation. Gord told us a fascinating anecdote about when he wanted to hire a individual who was blind in his factory. He...

"Today’s episode continues Triple Vision’s deep dive into the difficult questions surrounding the employment, and unemployment rates, of blind Canadians. The team pulls together three panelists to discuss the daunting issue of why the unemployment rate for Canadians who are blind, deafblind and partially sighted so chronically high. Vic Pereira, Marcia Yale and David Best all share their views on...

This week, the Triple Vision team starts a series on the history of employment for Canadians who are blind, deafblind and partially sighted. In today’s look back, Peter speaks with Geoffrey Reaume, Assistant Professor of Critical Disability Studies at York University, about the impacts of the industrial revolution and the development of the sheltered workshop. Starting at the turn of the century,...

"Today, the Triple Vision team wraps up its five-part series on education by exploring how a fully-integrated education system has worked for three blind and partially sighted individuals in British Columbia. Fourteen years ago, Shawn Marsolais started Blind Beginnings, a non-profit organization committed to supporting blind children and youth through their personal and educational journeys. A dri...

"In this fourth podcast in a series covering the education of Canadians who are blind, deafblind, and partially sighted, the Triple Vision team explores the history of the W. Ross Macdonald School for the Blind in Ontario. Peter speaks with Dan Maggiacomo, who has the honour of being the school’s Principal in this, its 150th anniversary. Hanna then talks to Alan Conway about his experiences there....

"Today, the Triple Vision team continues its series on education by speaking with two graduates of the Jericho Hill School for the Blind in Vancouver. Diana Brent travelled from her home in William's Lake, 350 kilometres north of Vancouver, to attend the school between 1956 and 1959. Our second guest, Nora Sarsons, attended between 1949 and 1955. Both graduates had similar experiences to other gra...

Today the Triple Vision team continues with the series on education. In this series we are tracing the history of Canada’s schools for the blind and exploring some key themes around how effective these schools, as well as Canadian schools which undertook the integration of students who were blind and partially sighted, prepared these students for post-secondary study and beyond. In this second epi...

Today the Triple Vision team starts a series on education. In this series we will be tracing the history of Canada’s schools for the blind and exploring some key themes around how effective these schools, as well as Canadian schools which undertook the integration of students who were blind and partially sighted, prepared these students for post-secondary study and beyond. In this first episode we...