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,…
disabled person, I understand the intrinsic need to recognize and honour people’s intersecting identities. We are never just one identity, just one issue, and yet…
This past week, May 5th to 12th, was Mental Health Week, which led me to reflect on my personal experience with depression, something I have…
I support any initiative that gets people talking about mental health, however, I have to share some of the issues I have with Bell Let’s…
Like many Value Village customers, I was quite excited at the prospect of visiting their brand new location, a 30,000 square foot store in Queensborough,…