Creating Accessible Neighbourhoods was created by and for disabled people who knew that businesses, charities/non-profits, communities, educational institutions, individuals, non-profits, and government need accessibility, equity,…
Creating Accessible Neighbourhoods is committed to education. It is only by learning from one another’s lived experience and expertise that we can create the world…
Disability Justice is a movement started by and meant to center disabled, Black, Indigenous, people of colour, 2SLGBTQIA+ people. Ableism encourages the centering of “normal”…
In 2005, Citizens for Accessible Neighbourhoods (now Creating Accessible Neighbourhoods) was founded because of transportation issues. See our origin story for details. Creating Accessible Neighbourhoods…
Creating Accessible Neighbourhoods is dedicated to addressing the issues that affect those who live in poverty and raising awareness about the people affected, including the…
Accessible is in our name and that is very purposeful. We founded this organization because of experiences with communities who were not accessible and because…
As part of CAN’s ongoing decolonialization work, we have decided to rename our organization. When we started in 2005, we wanted the CAN acronym because…
I get so frustrated with people judging an entire people or area without actually getting to know those people or the area. For example, the…
Recently I saw a post on Facebook of a link to a news item. The piece was about a woman who “defies odds, learns to…
notion of “free health care” in Canada. That is far from the reality for many, our system remains well beyond the reach of various demographics,…