Since our last mixed bag, back in May the proposed federal disability benefit (Bill C22) finally passed Royal Assent on June 20th, 2023. It’s a mid summer Mixed Bag episode of Outlook this week as we cover topics from social and entertainment to politics.

With this one we share about the recent Radio Western station social gathering we attended and Brian’s time lately with the station’s Systems/Web Developer Navaneeth Mohan (who designed our logo), collaborating to solve a problem with an accessible online music library for the radio station.

Kerry shares the one big way she related to Sarah Polley whose book of essays in memoir she’s been reading and Brian about his recent concerts and out with friends locally.

We talk things all the way from Kerry’s latest brush with reminders of inaccessible touch screens when she needed to give out her bank number when she shouldn’t have had to and Brian tells us what he discovered about those who attended London’s Rock the Park earlier this summer, those whom found little thought put into accessible seating for people with disabilities by planners.

And we will be back with another mixed bag show in August but we end this week’s episode with a teaser mention of what we’ll spend a lot of the next one tackling, what happened with the Triple Vision podcast, AMI, and the CNIB because we, as blind Canadians, have thoughts.

First, you can check out Kerry’s latest appearance elsewhere, on another podcast, this one called Stories of Vision Loss with Charlotte Simpson which released this past Friday, August 11th:

https://www.storiesofvisionloss.com/podcast/episode/78cf379d/kerry-outlook-from-ontario

Find more info on Bill C-22, the Federal Disability Benefit on the Disability Without Poverty website:

https://www.disabilitywithoutpoverty.ca/bill-c-22/

Check out the CBC article referenced on this episode regarding accessible seating at Rock The Park:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/london-ontario-rock-the-park-disability-seating-1.6908964

And find the new home of the Triple Vision podcast which we will be discussing in greater detail on our next mixed bag here:

http://triplevision.team