The Pulse

Shawn Smith is the founder of Don't Dis My Ability Consultation Services.  We talk about his journey through the education system, the counselling work he does now for the neurodiverse community, his new podcast, and some of entrenched tropes that exist within the organizations that serve the disability community. This is the October 1, 2018 episode.

Cym Gomery and David Kersey represent Fair Vote Canada, an organization dedicated to bringing in a voting system of proportional representation to all levels of government in Canada. We explore how PR can be used to better represent Canada's diverse population and how it can lead to better public policy. This is the September 28, 2018 episode.

Ryan Lythall is an Ottawa Mayoral Candidate.  Ryan has built his platform around addressing accessibility issues in the city.  We speak about why he chose to run and how folks have been responding to his campaign.  This is the September 27, 2018 episode.

Breaking Bad is arguably the greatest TV show of all time.  AMI TV has just recently started showing the program with described video on Friday nights.  We are joined by Director of Programming at AMI TV Brian Perdue.  We also speak to Breaking Bad superfans Brad Wisker and Jim Devlin.

Bella Bathurst describes what lead to her to writing a her new book, "Sound: A Memoir of Hearing Lost and Found".  We talk about the book, her revelations, and her own personal story of going deaf.

Join Dave Brown and Jessie Archambault at the CNIB/INCA Hub opening in Montreal.

Melissa Graham is an organizer for the 8th Annual Toronto Disability Pride March.  We discuss the event details, what issues they're highlighting this year, and why the march started back in 2011.  This is the September 19, 2018 episode.

Kim Thistle Murphy is the AMI Community Reporter for Atlantic Canada.  We discuss a peer support group she runs for individuals experiencing vision loss.  We also discuss her work within the advocacy world, public transit, photography, and sensory gardens.  This is the September 18, 2018 episode.

Wendy Rowland is the director of "14 and Muslim" - a new documentary that tackles issues of Islamophobia.  She describes what inspired her to make the film, how she made it, and what she learned in the process. This is the September 14, 2018 episode.

Disability representation in fiction and media are two things: underrepresented and misrepresented. Why does that happen? And, how are they related?

Dr. Jeff Preston is a professor of disability studies at the University of Western Ontario. He describes portrayal of disability in media and discusses subjects explored in his book The Fantasy of Disability: Images of Loss in Popular Culture.

This is the September 13, 2018 episode.