It’s finally here! To celebrate the 6th birthday of Mike May’s Seeing Eye dog, Tank, Sendero is having a one-day sale on the one-year subscriptions for Seeing Eye GPS and RNIB Navigator apps today. For today only, pay $39.99 for a one-year subscription!
North American customers can purchase Seeing Eye GPS at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/seeing-eye-gps/id668624446?mt=8#
U.K. and Ireland customers can purchase RNIB Navigator at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rnib-navigator/id783866151?mt=8
A recent Town Hall Meeting was hosted in Toronto by Accessible Media Inc and the Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians (AEBC) that featured Elections Canada talking about what we can expect during the upcoming Federal election. Please check out the summary by following the below link, or visiting http://www.blindcanadians.ca:
BC BLIND SPORT FITNESS PROGRAM
April 8th 2015 – June 17th 2015
BC BLIND SPORTS IS OFFERING A 10 WEEK FITNESS PROGRAM FOR VISION IMPAIRED PERSONS IN NANAIMO .THIS IS A LOW IMPACT FITNESS PROGAM WITH EMPHASIS ON BALANCE, FLEXABILITY AND MUSCLE STRENGTH. PROGRAM IS BENEFICIAL FOR ADULTS OF ALL AGES.
IN ORDER TO QUALIFY YOU MUST BECOME A MEMBER OF BC BLIND SPORTS. A YEARLY MEMBERSHIP IS $15.00. THERE IS AN APPLICATION FORM AVAILABLE ONLINE www.bcblindsports.bc.ca OR AVAILABLE AT CLASSES.
Program Details:
Every Wednesday: April 8th – June 17th 2015 (No class on May 27th)
Time 1:15pm-2:15pm.
Location: 195 Fourth Street (Harewood Activity Center) THERE IS A PARKING LOT FOR CONVENIENT DROP OFF/PICK UP. BUS ROUTE #4 #5 #6. THERE IS A RAMP AND RAILING LEADING INTO BUILDING.
Instructor: Brian Sugiyama
REGISTRATION:
Contact: Carolyn Gunn
TEL 250-716-9053
EMAIL carolyngunn03@shaw.ca
Reading this might help me be a better blind partner.
‘Have you ever loved a blind person?’
Well I have and It’s a happy sad love because he claims he sees you but doesn’t. He’s not in love with your make up or your hair do or your yellow blouse or beautiful hijab, he’s in love with your mind and that’s a good thing. But every lady wants to be told she’s beautiful after she’s clad in her most gorgeous outfit, but he doesn’t tell you you’re beautiful no matter how radiantly dressed you are. He tells you you’re beautiful when you cook him that something special; beautiful when you inspire him with deep words of wisdom; beautiful when you pray out loud for him and kiss his forehead with the amin; beautiful in the deep of the night when he’s deep inside you; beautiful when he smells your skin at dawn; beautiful when he caresses your face, you’re beautiful…
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A young Kichwa girl at blockade, photo by David Hill.
David Hill, The Ecologist, Feb 10, 2015
A month-long blockade of the Rio Tigre deep in the Peruvian Amazon has secured promises of compensation and cleanup for Peru’s Kichwa communities who have suffered 40 years of contaminated waters from oil drilling operations in their remote Amazon region. But until the funds materialize, they are holding firm in their resolve.
Hundreds of of Kichwa indigenous people living along the River Tigre in the remote Peruvian Amazon are demanding over 100 million Peruvian nuevo soles ($32 million / £21 million) from oil company Pluspetrol in the “environmental damages” they have sustained over 40 years of oil drilling.
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Wow, what might this mean for blind and partially sighted persons?
http://www.hrreporter.com/blog/Canadian-HR-Law/archive/2015/02/03/workers-must-play-active-role-in-accommodation
National conference call about library services CELA and more.
Posted by Kim Kilpatrick
GTT Coordinator
We will have a national conference call on Wednesday February 11 2015.
It will start at 7 Eastern time.
Here is some information about it.
Many GTT members have asked us about the CNIB library service and the new CELA service.
How does it work?
How are they different?
Are they different?
How can people access them?
So, we are delighted to have Margaret McGrory, Vice President, Executive Director, CNIB Library and Lindsay Tyler, Manager, Centre for Equitable Library Access, joining us to answer your questions about the changes in library service..
Space will be limited so RSVP to Kim Kilpatrick to get the call in info.
If this is very popular, we will invite them to join us on another conference call.
To book a space, call Kim at (613) 567-0311
1-877-304-0968
Or…
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Happy White Cane Week, brought to you by the Canadian Council of the Blind.
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