Insight Peterborough

By Insight Peterborough

Insight Peterborough is a partnership of the Canadian Council of the Blind and The Innovation Cluster. We discuss issues of interest to people with disabilities and their allies.... more

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How many episodes does Insight Peterborough have?

The podcast currently has 179 episodes available.

Insight Peterborough episodes:

May 10, 2021 Get Together with Kim: Simple Savings.
Because I completely forgot our feature called Get
Together with Kim on the first Monday of the month, May 10 was a good
time to play catch-up. Kim answers two questions for us. Is Apple more
blind person friendly, or is Android? And which is the most useful:
IPod Touches, IPhones, or IPads?
Next
came the feature that was originally meant for the second Monday of the
month: Simple Savings. This time, Lynda Todd tells us all about the
Access 2 card.
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58min
May 03, 2021 Taking A Gander Raffle; Ride, Don’t Hide; Covid Canine Miracle.
We begin this episode by chatting with Andrea
Dawson, Chair of the board for Peterborough Council for Persons with
Disabilities about a fundraising raffle called Taking A Gander. The
first prize is a trip for two to Gander, Newfoundland.
Next,
I speak with Kelly Curtis, the health promoter for the local chapter of
the Canadian Mental Health Association about a fundraiser currently in
progress called Ride, Don’t Hide.
Finally,
we hear the story of how international co-operation made it possible
for a Peterborough woman to get a guide dog from a training centre in
Michigan without crossing the border.
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April 19, 2021 Tru Faces, The Pandora Project; Demonstration of The Google Home Smart Speaker.
Emilee and Hannah Scheevers are two young ladies in
this area who run a Facebook group called Tru Faces for young people
with disabilities. They, along with Leslie Yee, chair of our local
chapter of the Canadian Council of the Blind—CCB to announce a new
partnership between the two groups.
Next,
I spoke with Peter Field from Victoria, BC about the Pandora Project.
He and several others are in the process of gathering information for a
book which will reveal the history of the blindness community in
Canada. Another component of the project is a podcast called
Tripple-Fisted, which discusses the past, present, and future.
Finally, we once again air a demonstration of the Google Home smart speaker.
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59min
April 12, 2021 Produce for Heros; Simple Savings: Discounts from Phone Companies: Kinsmen Catch The Ace
First, Lyndsay Robins visits me at home to let us
all know about a new initiative for veterans, some of whom have acquired
disabilities, called Product for Heros.
Next,
we begin a new monthly feature with Lynda Todd called Simple Savings.
This time, we discuss not very well advertised discounts that we can get
from the various phone providers in Canada.
Finally,
we hear from Reid Manley about a fundraiser being conducted on behalf
of several charitable organizations in this area called Kinsmen Catch
The Ace.
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58min
April 05, 2021 Peddle for Hope Campain; Get Together with Kim, featuring scanners and scanner apps; and Derrick Newman-Still re. his three books.
April is Cancer Month, so we begin by talking with
Alison Payne with the Peterborough office of the Cancer Society. Our
main focus is this year’s Peddle for Hope campaign which is already
underway.
Next
up is our monthly feature, Get Together with Kim. This month, I chat
with Kim Kilpatrick from Get Together with Technology about scanners and
scanner apps.
Finally,
we reach back into the archives to early June of 2019, and listen once
again to a chat that former co-host Simon Treviranus and I had with
Derrick, Newman-Still, who is a writer with a disability living in the
Peterborough area.
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56min
March 29, 2021 Upcoming Easter Seals Telathon; National Disability Insurance Plan; Organ Donation Month.
My first guest is Coralie Jacobs, who tells us all about the upcoming Easter Seals telethon.
Next,
I speak with Dr. William Cowie from Ottawa about his work to bring
about a national disability insurance plan such as the one already
established in Australia.
Finally,
I dig back into the archives for a repeat airing of a chat with Steve
Scally, chair of Lions District A3’s Gift of Life program.
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56min
March 22, 2021 Save-On Energy and Greensavers; Glaucoma Awareness Week; Article about Medical Aid in Dying legislation; Audiocraft Festival.
The show begins with a chat with Michael Thomassi,
an outreach co-ordinator with Greensaver, a non-profit organization
which assists people to conserve energy through energy-saving products.
Next,
I reach back into the archives to 2019 for a chat with Maureen Summers,
the low vision therapist with the CNIB office here in Peterborough
about the prevention and treatment of glaucoma.
Next, we listen to an article from the Toronto Star about the recently passed legislation about Medical Aid in Dying.
Finally,
we give yet another listen to an interview that I did with Ayesha
Barmania, Managing Director of PIP—Peterborough Independent Podcasters
about their upcoming Audiocraft Festival.
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57min
March 15, 2021 Screens Off for Sight; Anti-Fraud Month; Liver Month
First, I speak with Doug Earle, executive director
of Fighting Blindness Canada about an upcoming fundraiser called Screens
Off for Sight.
March
is Fraud Awareness Month. My next guest is Ian Thompson from Trent
University’s Information Technology Department, who outlines some of the
ways in which people can protect themselves against scams, etc.
Finally, we dig back into the archives for a chat with liver specialist Dr. Morris Sherman about hepatitis-C.
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55min
March 08, 2021 Get Together with Kim; Advocacy Campaign Continues; Audiocraft Festival Coming Soon!
The first of the month sneaked up on me last week,
and I completely forgot about our monthly feature called Get Together
with Kim. This time, we discuss the various types of earphones and
headphones that are available.
Two
organizations that provide books in various formats to people who are
blind, Deafblind, and partially sighted have just learned of cuts in
federal funding. I speak next with Karen McKay from CELA—the Centre for
Equitable Library Access.
Finally,
PIP—Peterborough Independent Podcasters is preparing to present an
Audiocraft festival. I speak with PIP’s Managing Director Ayesha
Barmania.
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55min
March 01, 2021 March is Kidney Month; Peterborough Lions Club Loan Cupboard; Demonstration of E-Sight.
Today is a day to dive deep into our archives.
First, we hear an interview that former co-host Simon Treviranus and I
did with Shelley Greene from Kidney Canada in order to mark Kidney
Month.
Next,
we hear an interview that Simon did back in 2018 with RayOstopovich, a
Lion for the past fifty years who oversees the Peterborough Lions Club’s
loan cupboard of wheelchairs, walkers, crutches, and canes.
Finally,
Leslie Yee does a demonstration of a technical device called E-sight,
which can be of great help to people with low vision.
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59min

FAQs about Insight Peterborough:

How many episodes does Insight Peterborough have?

The podcast currently has 179 episodes available.