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Send me a DM here (it doesn't let me respond), OR email me: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.com-----------------------------------------------------------------------Wayne Morris and the International Connection Radio Show are proud to deliver the entire nine-month series in this rare exclusive format. (International Connection 2003)The Mind Control Radio Series, a series on Canadian involvement in U.S. CIA and military mind control programs and the links to ritual abuse.International Connection Host Wayne Morris interviewed survivors, therapists, researchers, and writers regarding unethical mind control experiments carried out by Canada and the United States on Toronto radio station CKLN-FM 88.1 Sunday mornings at 9:30 AM."Mind Control Radio Series" focused on different issues of military and government use of mind control with a focus on the Canadian involvement in the experimental programs including:- The documented history of CIA/military mind control programs including the funding of projects at Canadian institutes across the country (Including the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal).- The military and intelligence uses of mind control including using the child victims for sexual blackmail, message delivery, information stealing, coercion and assassination.- The use of Multiple Personality Disorder for mind control programming and the links to the MPD effects of ritual abuse, sexual abuse and severe trauma- The public debate around recovered memories of abuse- The nature of the mind control experiments from survivors' accounts-------------------------------------------------CONNECT WITH EMMA / THE IMAGINATION: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@imaginationpodcastofficialRumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheImaginationPodcastEMAIL: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.com OR standbysurvivors@protonmail.comMy Substack: https://emmakatherine.substack.com/BUY ME A COFFEE: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theimaginationVENMO: @emmapreneurCASHAPP: $EmmaKatherine1204All links: https://direct.me/theimaginationpodcastSupport the show
Aram Scaram began his DJ journey in Toronto's late-90s underground, spinning at house parties and one-off club events before landing weekly residencies at the beloved lounges Ciao Eddie and Alto Basso. It was at Ciao Eddie where he met Sassa'le, founder of the influential Version Xcursion radio show on CKLN 88.1 FM — a connection that would shape the next chapter of his career. Scaram soon joined Version Xcursion as co-host and co-producer, helping transform the show into a staple of Toronto's music landscape. Their weekly broadcasts championed dub, downtempo, trip-hop, reggae, and emerging Canadian talent, establishing the program as a go-to platform for genre-bending sounds. Over the years, Scaram has brought his signature style to major stages, including the Du Maurier Jazz Festival, the first Virgin Festival on the Toronto Islands (2006), and an opening slot for Massive Attack at The Carlu. He also founded Dub & Beyond, a hugely popular monthly club night at Andy Poolhall, broadcast live-to-air on CKLN 88.1 FM. Running for seven and a half years, it became a cornerstone of the city's dub and bass culture. His international appearances include performing at the Shatter The Hotel release event in London and playing the legendary Dub Chamber party at OT301 in Amsterdam. As a producer with Version Xcursion, Scaram released two full-length albums and three singles, including the cult classic Moments featuring Treson — widely regarded by tastemakers as one of Canada's standout tracks of the early 2000s. In 2010, he launched his solo project Citizen Sound, releasing a full-length album that featured the award-winning single Reggae Is Her Name with Blessed, which earned the Canadian Reggae Music Award for Best Male Single. A second Citizen Sound album followed in 2014, along with numerous singles and EPs. Throughout his production career, he has collaborated with many of Canada's premier reggae and dub artists, including Ammoye, Blessed, Chester Miller, Treson, Dubmatix, and Prince Blanco. After a 14-year break from radio, Scaram returned in 2025 with Sound So Nice, co-hosted with Eddie Go Boom on CFRU 93.3 FM in Guelph, Ontario. The weekly show explores the deep roots of sound system culture — from Jamaica's foundational influence to its global evolution — guiding listeners through reggae, dub, electronic, drum & bass, house, afrobeats, downtempo, and beyond. Driven by an electrifying musical selection, the show blends minimal commentary with occasional interviews featuring artists, producers, and organizers shaping today's scene. Links: https://www.instagram.com/citizensoundmusic https://www.instagram.com/soundsoniceradio https://www.mixcloud.com/scaram/ https://m.soundcloud.com/aramscaram PLAYLIST Thievery Corporation - Waiting Too Long feat. Notch Stephen Marley - Don't Let Me Down Salmonella Dub - Rhythm & Pattern The Nomad - Open Your Eyes Boztown - Instant Playa Boogie Belgique - Every Time Flowering Inferno & Quantic - Make Dub Not War Gregory Isaacs - Number One Prince Fattty - Roof Over My Dub feat. Little Roy Sugar Minott - Rockers Master Cornell Campbell - Boxing Around Augustus Pablo - Rockers Magic John Holt - Ali Baba Keznamdi - Pressure Asa - Jailer Little Simz - Point and Kill feat. Obongjayer Chronixx - Keep On Rising Bunny Rugs - Rumours feat. Sly & Robbie Quakers - Approach with Caution feat. Sampa The Great Super Beagle - Dust A Sound Boy Yeza & Rorystonelove - Road Runner Lauryn Hill - So Much Things To Say Bob Marley - Roots Rock Reggae feat Steven Tyler & Joe Perry De Lata - Breathe Major Lazer - Can't Stop Now feat. Mr. Vegas & Jovi Rockwell Jada Kingdom - Budum DJ Vadim, Kathrin deBoer & Belleruche - Black Is The Night Pt. 3 Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley - Hey Girl feat. Stephen Marley Red Astaire - Dum Dum A Tribe Called Quest - Rock Rock Y'all feat. Punchline, Wordsworth, Jane Doe & Mos Def Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - What Can You Bring Me
Send me a DM here (it doesn't let me respond), OR email me: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.comThis is the 21st episode feature of the CKLN Mind Control Radio Series that will be airing on all my channels. These lectures, interviews, and presentations are some of the most important documentations on mind control that you will find. This series is extremely difficult to find online and has stood the test of time since 1997 when it aired on CKLN Radio. I will be airing this series over the next couple months for 'Movie Night'. If you listen to this entire series, it'll tremendously help your understanding of MK ULTRA and trauma-based mind control. You will hear from renowned experts, advocates, educators, therapists, survivors, whistleblowers, and researchers who helped pave the way for where we are today. -----------------------------------------------------------------------Brice Taylor - White House-Level Mind Control & Child Sex Slave SurvivorToday we are bringing you part one of an interview I conducted with Brice Taylor, a former Whitehouse-level mind control victim. She has been used as a sex slave for a number of U.S. presidents, foreign officials, and other power-brokers while under the influence of mind control. She has been subjected to horrific torture and abuse, beginning in her childhood, at the hands of her family, and has been programmed at various military bases in the U.S., and at NASA. She is the author of a fictionalized account of her life, "Starshine: One woman's valiant escape from mind control", and since breaking free and recovering, has been in touch with hundreds of mind control survivors across the U.S. -----------------------------------------------------------------------Wayne Morris and the International Connection Radio Show are proud to deliver the entire nine-month series in this rare exclusive format. (International Connection 2003)The Mind Control Radio Series, a series on Canadian involvement in U.S. CIA and military mind control programs and the links to ritual abuse.International Connection Host Wayne Morris interviewed survivors, therapists, researchers, and writers regarding unethical mind control experiments carried out by Canada and the United States on Toronto radio station CKLN-FM 88.1 Sunday mornings at 9:30 AM."Mind Control Radio Series" focused on different issues of military and government use of mind control with a focus on the Canadian involvement in the experimental programs including:- The documented history of CIA/military mind control programs including the funding of projects at Canadian institutes across the country (Including the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal).- The military and intelligence uses of mind control including using the child victims for sexual blackmail, message delivery, information stealing, coercion and assassination.- The use of Multiple Personality Disorder for mind control programming and the links to the MPD effects of ritual abuse, sexual abuse and severe trauma- The public debate around recovered memories of abuse- The nature of the mind control experiments from survivors' accounts-------------------------------------------------CONNECT WITH EMMA / THE IMAGINATION: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@imaginationpodcastofficialRumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheImaginationPodcastEMAIL: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.com OR standbysurvivors@protonmail.comMy Substack: https://emmakatherine.substack.com/BUY ME A COFFEE: htSupport the show
Send me a DM here (it doesn't let me respond), OR email me: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.comThis is the 20th episode feature of the CKLN Mind Control Radio Series that will be airing on all my channels. These lectures, interviews, and presentations are some of the most important documentations on mind control that you will find. This series is extremely difficult to find online and has stood the test of time since 1997 when it aired on CKLN Radio. I will be airing this series over the next couple months for 'Movie Night'. If you listen to this entire series, it'll tremendously help your understanding of MK ULTRA and trauma-based mind control. You will hear from renowned experts, advocates, educators, therapists, survivors, whistleblowers, and researchers who helped pave the way for where we are today. Much of the information you have heard in this series has been suppressed over the years, and some of it may be slightly outdated due to being ahead of it's time. Please pay attention and treat this like going to class - it's a series unlike anything you'll ever hear and I'm grateful to be able to bring this series back to life! Enjoy (and take copious notes!).-----------------------------------------------------------------------Cisco Wheeler - Former Illuminati Mind Control Programmer & SurvivorToday we begin an interview with Cisco Wheeler, co-author of "The Illuminati Formula Used to Create an Undetectable Mind Controlled Slave" and other books about trauma-based conditioning. Cisco is a mind control victim of one of the Illuminati families. She is a descendant of Ulysses S. Grant and has managed to gain a certain amount of freedom from her family's control. She is currently working with Fritz Springmeier to help other victims of mind control heal. Cisco rarely does interviews, so we are very fortunate to be able to bring you this interview with Cisco Wheeler-----------------------------------------------------------------------Wayne Morris and the International Connection Radio Show are proud to deliver the entire nine-month series in this rare exclusive format. (International Connection 2003)The Mind Control Radio Series, a series on Canadian involvement in U.S. CIA and military mind control programs and the links to ritual abuse.International Connection Host Wayne Morris interviewed survivors, therapists, researchers, and writers regarding unethical mind control experiments carried out by Canada and the United States on Toronto radio station CKLN-FM 88.1 Sunday mornings at 9:30 AM."Mind Control Radio Series" focused on different issues of military and government use of mind control with a focus on the Canadian involvement in the experimental programs including:- The documented history of CIA/military mind control programs including the funding of projects at Canadian institutes across the country (Including the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal).- The military and intelligence uses of mind control including using the child victims for sexual blackmail, message delivery, information stealing, coercion and assassination.- The use of Multiple Personality Disorder for mind control programming and the links to the MPD effects of ritual abuse, sexual abuse and severe trauma- The public debate around recovered memories of abuse- The nature of the mind control experiments from survivors' accounts-------------------------------------------------CONNECT WITH EMMA / THE IMAGINATION: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@imaginationpodcastofficialRumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheImaginationPodcastEMAIL: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.com OR standbysurvivors@protonmail.comSupport the show
Send me a DM here (it doesn't let me respond), OR email me: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.comThis is the 19th episode feature of the CKLN Mind Control Radio Series that will be airing on all my channels. These lectures, interviews, and presentations are some of the most important documentations on mind control that you will find. This series is extremely difficult to find online and has stood the test of time since 1997 when it aired on CKLN Radio. I will be airing this series over the next couple months for 'Movie Night'. If you listen to this entire series, it'll tremendously help your understanding of MK ULTRA and trauma-based mind control. You will hear from renowned experts, advocates, educators, therapists, survivors, whistleblowers, and researchers who helped pave the way for where we are today. -----------------------------------------------------------------------Fritz Springmeier - The Illuminati & Mind Control SlaveryWe are going to be talking to Fritz Springmeier and Cisco Wheeler, co-authors of the "Illuminati Formula Used to Create an Undetectable Total Mind Control Slave" and "Deeper Insights", books about trauma based conditioning mind control. Fritz is a researcher about the Illuminati and minister to mind control victims. Cisco Wheeler says she is from a generational Illuminati family and that trauma-based mind control was perpetrated against her from birth. We will hear the interview with Cisco in a couple of weeks, and today we are going to hear an interview with Fritz Springmeier. Fritz talks about the Illuminati families and how they have used mind control to consolidate their power throughout history. -----------------------------------------------------------------------Wayne Morris and the International Connection Radio Show are proud to deliver the entire nine-month series in this rare exclusive format. (International Connection 2003)The Mind Control Radio Series, a series on Canadian involvement in U.S. CIA and military mind control programs and the links to ritual abuse.International Connection Host Wayne Morris interviewed survivors, therapists, researchers, and writers regarding unethical mind control experiments carried out by Canada and the United States on Toronto radio station CKLN-FM 88.1 Sunday mornings at 9:30 AM."Mind Control Radio Series" focused on different issues of military and government use of mind control with a focus on the Canadian involvement in the experimental programs including:- The documented history of CIA/military mind control programs including the funding of projects at Canadian institutes across the country (Including the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal).- The military and intelligence uses of mind control including using the child victims for sexual blackmail, message delivery, information stealing, coercion and assassination.- The use of Multiple Personality Disorder for mind control programming and the links to the MPD effects of ritual abuse, sexual abuse and severe trauma-------------------------------------------------CONNECT WITH EMMA / THE IMAGINATION:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@imaginationpodcastofficialRumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheImaginationPodcastEMAIL: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.com OR standbysurvivors@protonmail.comMy Substack: https://emmakatherine.substack.com/BUY ME A COFFEE: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theimaginationVENMO: @emmapreneurCASHAPP: $EmmaKathSupport the show
Send me a DM here (it doesn't let me respond), OR email me: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.comThis is the 18th episode feature of the CKLN Mind Control Radio Series that will be airing on all my channels. These lectures, interviews, and presentations are some of the most important documentations on mind control that you will find. This series is extremely difficult to find online and has stood the test of time since 1997 when it aired on CKLN Radio. I will be airing this series over the next couple months for 'Movie Night'. If you listen to this entire series, it'll tremendously help your understanding of MK ULTRA and trauma-based mind control. You will hear from renowned experts, advocates, educators, therapists, survivors, whistleblowers, and researchers who helped pave the way for where we are today. Much of the information you have heard in this series has been suppressed over the years, and some of it may be slightly outdated due to being ahead of it's time. Please pay attention and treat this like going to class - it's a series unlike anything you'll ever hear and I'm grateful to be able to bring this series back to life! Enjoy (and take copious notes!).-----------------------------------------------------------------------Walter Bowart - The Secret History of Mind ControlToday we are going to hear a presentation, The Secret History of Mind Control, given by Walter Bowart at the Ritual Trauma Child Abuse and Mind Control Conference in Atlanta in October, 1997. Walter Bowart is an investigative journalist and author of one of the original books about mind control in the late seventies entitled, Operational Mind Control. And now, Walter Bowart:-----------------------------------------------------------------------Wayne Morris and the International Connection Radio Show are proud to deliver the entire nine-month series in this rare exclusive format. (International Connection 2003)The Mind Control Radio Series, a series on Canadian involvement in U.S. CIA and military mind control programs and the links to ritual abuse.International Connection Host Wayne Morris interviewed survivors, therapists, researchers, and writers regarding unethical mind control experiments carried out by Canada and the United States on Toronto radio station CKLN-FM 88.1 Sunday mornings at 9:30 AM."Mind Control Radio Series" focused on different issues of military and government use of mind control with a focus on the Canadian involvement in the experimental programs including:- The documented history of CIA/military mind control programs including the funding of projects at Canadian institutes across the country (Including the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal).- The military and intelligence uses of mind control including using the child victims for sexual blackmail, message delivery, information stealing, coercion and assassination.- The use of Multiple Personality Disorder for mind control programming and the links to the MPD effects of ritual abuse, sexual abuse and severe trauma- The public debate around recovered memories of abuse- The nature of the mind control experiments from survivors' accounts-------------------------------------------------CONNECT WITH EMMA / THE IMAGINATION: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@imaginationpodcastofficialRumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheImaginationPodcastEMAIL: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.com OR standbysurvivors@protonmail.comMy Substack: https://emmakatherine.substack.comSupport the show
Send me a DM here (it doesn't let me respond), OR email me: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.comThis is the 17th episode feature of the CKLN Mind Control Radio Series that will be airing on all my channels. These lectures, interviews, and presentations are some of the most important documentations on mind control that you will find. This series is extremely difficult to find online and has stood the test of time since 1997 when it aired on CKLN Radio. I will be airing this series over the next couple months for 'Movie Night'. If you listen to this entire series, it'll tremendously help your understanding of MK ULTRA and trauma-based mind control. You will hear from renowned experts, advocates, educators, therapists, survivors, whistleblowers, and researchers who helped pave the way for where we are today. -----------------------------------------------------------------------Alan Scheflin - Risk Management in Dissociative Disorder & Trauma TherapyToday we are going to hear a presentation by Professor Alan Scheflin given at the recent International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD) and International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) conferences at a joint session in Montreal given this last Sunday, on November 9, 1997. This talk is entitled Risk Management in Dissociative Disorder and Trauma Therapy and is very timely in the wake of some disturbing legal developments against psychotherapy recently. There was a $10.6 million lawsuit settled out of court in Chicago for a therapist who treated DID or MPD, also more recently, the U.S. government has brought criminal charges against Judith Peterson, a Texas psychologist who treats dissociative clients. -----------------------------------------------------------------------Wayne Morris and the International Connection Radio Show are proud to deliver the entire nine-month series in this rare exclusive format. (International Connection 2003)The Mind Control Radio Series, a series on Canadian involvement in U.S. CIA and military mind control programs and the links to ritual abuse.International Connection Host Wayne Morris interviewed survivors, therapists, researchers, and writers regarding unethical mind control experiments carried out by Canada and the United States on Toronto radio station CKLN-FM 88.1 Sunday mornings at 9:30 AM."Mind Control Radio Series" focused on different issues of military and government use of mind control with a focus on the Canadian involvement in the experimental programs including:- The documented history of CIA/military mind control programs including the funding of projects at Canadian institutes across the country (Including the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal).- The military and intelligence uses of mind control including using the child victims for sexual blackmail, message delivery, information stealing, coercion and assassination.- The use of Multiple Personality Disorder for mind control programming and the links to the MPD effects of ritual abuse, sexual abuse and severe trauma- The public debate around recovered memories of abuse- The nature of the mind control experiments from survivors' accounts-------------------------------------------------CONNECT WITH EMMA / THE IMAGINATION: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@imaginationpodcastofficialRumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheImaginationPodcastEMAIL: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.com OR standbysurvivors@protonmail.comMy Substack: https://emmakatSupport the show
Send me a DM here (it doesn't let me respond), OR email me: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.comThis is the 16th episode feature of the CKLN Mind Control Radio Series that will be airing on all my channels. These lectures, interviews, and presentations are some of the most important documentations on mind control that you will find. This series is extremely difficult to find online and has stood the test of time since 1997 when it aired on CKLN Radio. I will be airing this series over the next couple months for 'Movie Night'. If you listen to this entire series, it'll tremendously help your understanding of MK ULTRA and trauma-based mind control. You will hear from renowned experts, advocates, educators, therapists, survivors, whistleblowers, and researchers who helped pave the way for where we are today. Much of the information you have heard in this series has been suppressed over the years, and some of it may be slightly outdated due to being ahead of it's time. -----------------------------------------------------------------------Blanche Chavoustie - US Government Mind Control Survivor TestimonyToday we are going to hear an interview with Blanche Chavoustie, a survivor of various U.S. government mind control experiments. Blanche is the American coordinator for ACHES-MC, the Advocacy Committee for Human Experimentation Survivors of mind control, who are currently engaged in a campaign to open a government investigation into the mind control experiments. In this interview, Blanche is alleging that she was experimented on at various sites, such as Cornell Medical Centre in New York, Hollywood Hospital in Vancouver, B.C., Syracuse University and the Parapsychology Lab at Princeton, all of which have been documented to be sites involved in the CIA MKULTRA mind control projects. Her accounts include her being experimented on with brain implants, synthetic telepathy, drugs, and hypnosis and she has been harassed repeatedly throughout her life. -----------------------------------------------------------------------Wayne Morris and the International Connection Radio Show are proud to deliver the entire nine-month series in this rare exclusive format. (International Connection 2003)The Mind Control Radio Series, a series on Canadian involvement in U.S. CIA and military mind control programs and the links to ritual abuse.International Connection Host Wayne Morris interviewed survivors, therapists, researchers, and writers regarding unethical mind control experiments carried out by Canada and the United States on Toronto radio station CKLN-FM 88.1 Sunday mornings at 9:30 AM."Mind Control Radio Series" focused on different issues of military and government use of mind control with a focus on the Canadian involvement in the experimental programs including:- The documented history of CIA/military mind control programs including the funding of projects at Canadian institutes across the country (Including the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal).- The military and intelligence uses of mind control including using the child victims for sexual blackmail, message delivery, information stealing, coercion and assassination.- The use of Multiple Personality Disorder for mind control programming and the links to the MPD effects of ritual abuse, sexual abuse and severe trauma- The public debate around recovered memories of abuse- The nature of the mind control experiments from survivors' accounts-------------------------------------------------CONNECT WITH EMMA / THE IMAGINATION: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@imaginationpodcastoffiSupport the show
Send me a DM here (it doesn't let me respond), OR email me: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.comThis is the 15th episode feature of the CKLN Mind Control Radio Series that will be airing on all my channels. These lectures, interviews, and presentations are some of the most important documentations on mind control that you will find. This series is extremely difficult to find online and has stood the test of time since 1997 when it aired on CKLN Radio. I will be airing this series over the next couple months for 'Movie Night'. If you listen to this entire series, it'll tremendously help your understanding of MK ULTRA and trauma-based mind control. You will hear from renowned experts, advocates, educators, therapists, survivors, whistleblowers, and researchers who helped pave the way for where we are today. Much of the information you have heard in this series has been suppressed over the years, and some of it may be slightly outdated due to being ahead of it's time. Please pay attention and treat this like going to class - it's a series unlike anything you'll ever hear and I'm grateful to be able to bring this series back to life! Enjoy (and take copious notes!).-----------------------------------------------------------------------Kathleen Sullivan: CIA's MK ULTRA Human Experimentation Survivor-----------------------------------------------------------------------Wayne Morris and the International Connection Radio Show are proud to deliver the entire nine-month series in this rare exclusive format. (International Connection 2003)The Mind Control Radio Series, a series on Canadian involvement in U.S. CIA and military mind control programs and the links to ritual abuse.International Connection Host Wayne Morris interviewed survivors, therapists, researchers, and writers regarding unethical mind control experiments carried out by Canada and the United States on Toronto radio station CKLN-FM 88.1 Sunday mornings at 9:30 AM."Mind Control Radio Series" focused on different issues of military and government use of mind control with a focus on the Canadian involvement in the experimental programs including:- The documented history of CIA/military mind control programs including the funding of projects at Canadian institutes across the country (Including the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal).- The military and intelligence uses of mind control including using the child victims for sexual blackmail, message delivery, information stealing, coercion and assassination.- The use of Multiple Personality Disorder for mind control programming and the links to the MPD effects of ritual abuse, sexual abuse and severe trauma- The public debate around recovered memories of abuse- The nature of the mind control experiments from survivors' accounts-------------------------------------------------CONNECT WITH EMMA / THE IMAGINATION: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@imaginationpodcastofficialRumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheImaginationPodcastEMAIL: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.com OR standbysurvivors@protonmail.comMy Substack: https://emmakatherine.substack.com/BUY ME A COFFEE: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theimaginationVENMO: @emmapreneurCASHAPP: $EmmaKatherine1204All links: https://direct.me/theimaginationpodcastSupport the show
Send me a DM here (it doesn't let me respond), OR email me: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.comThis is the 14th episode feature of the CKLN Mind Control Radio Series that will be airing on all my channels. These lectures, interviews, and presentations are some of the most important documentations on mind control that you will find. This series is extremely difficult to find online and has stood the test of time since 1997 when it aired on CKLN Radio. I will be airing this series over the next couple months for 'Movie Night'. If you listen to this entire series, it'll tremendously help your understanding of MK ULTRA and trauma-based mind control. You will hear from renowned experts, advocates, educators, therapists, survivors, whistleblowers, and researchers who helped pave the way for where we are today. -----------------------------------------------------------------------Lynne Moss-Sharman - Investigations into Governmental Mind ControlToday we are going to hear an interview with Lynne Moss-Sharman. Lynne is the Canada contact for ACHES-MC (Advocacy Committee for Human Experimentation Survivors - Mind Control) and she was the coordinator for the Making Up For Lost Time conference. We will go to that interview now. I am on the line now with Lynne Moss-Sharman a survivor of mind control experimentation, and an advocate for other survivors.-----------------------------------------------------------------------Wayne Morris and the International Connection Radio Show are proud to deliver the entire nine-month series in this rare exclusive format. (International Connection 2003)The Mind Control Radio Series, a series on Canadian involvement in U.S. CIA and military mind control programs and the links to ritual abuse.International Connection Host Wayne Morris interviewed survivors, therapists, researchers, and writers regarding unethical mind control experiments carried out by Canada and the United States on Toronto radio station CKLN-FM 88.1 Sunday mornings at 9:30 AM."Mind Control Radio Series" focused on different issues of military and government use of mind control with a focus on the Canadian involvement in the experimental programs including:- The documented history of CIA/military mind control programs including the funding of projects at Canadian institutes across the country (Including the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal).- The military and intelligence uses of mind control including using the child victims for sexual blackmail, message delivery, information stealing, coercion and assassination.- The use of Multiple Personality Disorder for mind control programming and the links to the MPD effects of ritual abuse, sexual abuse and severe trauma- The public debate around recovered memories of abuse- The nature of the mind control experiments from survivors' accounts-------------------------------------------------CONNECT WITH EMMA / THE IMAGINATION: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@imaginationpodcastofficialRumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheImaginationPodcastEMAIL: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.com OR standbysurvivors@protonmail.comMy Substack: https://emmakatherine.substack.com/BUY ME A COFFEE: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theimaginationAll links: https://direct.me/theimaginationpodcastSupport the show
Send me a DM here (it doesn't let me respond), OR email me: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.comThis is the 13th episode feature of the CKLN Mind Control Radio Series that will be airing on all my channels. These lectures, interviews, and presentations are some of the most important documentations on mind control that you will find. This series is extremely difficult to find online and has stood the test of time since 1997 when it aired on CKLN Radio. I will be airing this series over the next couple months for 'Movie Night'. If you listen to this entire series, it'll tremendously help your understanding of MK ULTRA and trauma-based mind control. You will hear from renowned experts, advocates, educators, therapists, survivors, whistleblowers, and researchers who helped pave the way for where we are today. Much of the information you have heard in this series has been suppressed over the years, and some of it may be slightly outdated due to being ahead of it's time. -----------------------------------------------------------------------Dr. Stephen Kent Presents: Freemasonry & Cult Involvement in Ritual AbuseDr. Stephen Kent is a professor of sociology at U. of Alberta, Edmonton who specializes in controversial religious cults and the allegations of ritual abuse against these groups. We discuss the alleged involvement of elements of Freemasonry in ritual abuse, issues regarding police investigations of ritual abuse crimes, and the backlash against people coming forward with abuse accounts by the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. In an interview with CBC, Freemason Peter Tooey rebuts allegations of child sexual abuse and ritual abuse by Masons in the Thunder Bay area. Toronto Star journalist Judy Steed, in an interview with CBC Thunder Bay, talks about cases involving ritual and sexual abuse such as the Prescott, Ontario case.-----------------------------------------------------------------------Wayne Morris and the International Connection Radio Show are proud to deliver the entire nine-month series in this rare exclusive format. (International Connection 2003)The Mind Control Radio Series, a series on Canadian involvement in U.S. CIA and military mind control programs and the links to ritual abuse.International Connection Host Wayne Morris interviewed survivors, therapists, researchers, and writers regarding unethical mind control experiments carried out by Canada and the United States on Toronto radio station CKLN-FM 88.1 Sunday mornings at 9:30 AM."Mind Control Radio Series" focused on different issues of military and government use of mind control with a focus on the Canadian involvement in the experimental programs including:- The documented history of CIA/military mind control programs including the funding of projects at Canadian institutes across the country (Including the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal).- The military and intelligence uses of mind control including using the child victims for sexual blackmail, message delivery, information stealing, coercion and assassination.- The use of Multiple Personality Disorder for mind control programming and the links to the MPD effects of ritual abuse, sexual abuse and severe trauma- The public debate around recovered memories of abuse- The nature of the mind control experiments from survivors' accounts-------------------------------------------------CONNECT WITH EMMA / THE IMAGINATION: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@imaginationpodcastofficialRumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheImaginationPodcastEMAIL: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.com OR standbysurvivors@protonmail.comMy Substack: https://emmakatherine.subsSupport the show
Send me a DM here (it doesn't let me respond), OR email me: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.comThis is the 12th episode feature of the CKLN Mind Control Radio Series that will be airing on all my channels. These lectures, interviews, and presentations are some of the most important documentations on mind control that you will find. This series is extremely difficult to find online and has stood the test of time since 1997 when it aired on CKLN Radio. I will be airing this series over the next couple months for 'Movie Night'. If you listen to this entire series, it'll tremendously help your understanding of MK ULTRA and trauma-based mind control. ----------------------------------------------------------------------Jeanette Westbrook, MSW Presents: How to Pursue the Prosecution of Ritual Abuse and Mind Control PerpetratorsJeanette Westbrook, MSW talks about her experiences in how to prosecute a perpetrator of ritual abuse and mind control. She had laid legal charges against her father alleging that he sexually abused and ritually tortured her as a child and throughout her teen years. Her father was a high ranking Freemason, a deacon in the Mormon church, and was the Executive Director of the organization responsible for inspecting all nuclear power stations in the U.S. After refusing a plea bargain of $50,000 and an admission to "facilitating child sexual abuse" by her father, Jeanette began proceedings to extradite him to stand charges in court. Just before he was due to appear in court, he suddenly died.-----------------------------------------------------------------------Wayne Morris and the International Connection Radio Show are proud to deliver the entire nine-month series in this rare exclusive format. (International Connection 2003)The Mind Control Radio Series, a series on Canadian involvement in U.S. CIA and military mind control programs and the links to ritual abuse.International Connection Host Wayne Morris interviewed survivors, therapists, researchers, and writers regarding unethical mind control experiments carried out by Canada and the United States on Toronto radio station CKLN-FM 88.1 Sunday mornings at 9:30 AM."Mind Control Radio Series" focused on different issues of military and government use of mind control with a focus on the Canadian involvement in the experimental programs including:- The documented history of CIA/military mind control programs including the funding of projects at Canadian institutes across the country (Including the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal).- The military and intelligence uses of mind control including using the child victims for sexual blackmail, message delivery, information stealing, coercion and assassination.- The use of Multiple Personality Disorder for mind control programming and the links to the MPD effects of ritual abuse, sexual abuse and severe trauma- The public debate around recovered memories of abuse- The nature of the mind control experiments from survivors' accounts-------------------------------------------------CONNECT WITH EMMA / THE IMAGINATION: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@imaginationpodcastofficialRumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheImaginationPodcastEMAIL: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.com OR standbysurvivors@protonmail.comMy Substack: https://emmakatherine.substack.com/BUY ME A COFFEE: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theimaginationAll links: Support the show
Send me a DM here (it doesn't let me respond), OR email me: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.comThis is the 11th episode feature of the CKLN Mind Control Radio Series that will be airing on all my channels. These lectures, interviews, and presentations are some of the most important documentations on mind control that you will find. This series is extremely difficult to find online and has stood the test of time since 1997 when it aired on CKLN Radio. I will be airing this series over the next couple months for 'Movie Night'. If you listen to this entire series, it'll tremendously help your understanding of MK ULTRA and trauma-based mind control. You will hear from renowned experts, advocates, educators, therapists, survivors, whistleblowers, and researchers who helped pave the way for where we are today. Much of the information you have heard in this series has been suppressed over the years, and some of it may be slightly outdated due to being ahead of it's time. Please pay attention and treat this like going to class - it's a series unlike anything you'll ever hear and I'm grateful to be able to bring this series back to life! Enjoy (and take copious notes!).----------------------------------------------------------------------Valerie Wolf, MSW presents "Ritual Abuse, Mind Control & Therapeutic Approaches" - Interviewed by Wayne MorrisWayne Morris interviews Valerie Wolf, MSW about her experiences giving mind control testimony at the radiation hearings and treating mind control survivors. We discuss dissociation, healing processes, ritual abuse aspects of mind control, and her therapeutic approaches that have enabled survivors to overcome the devastating effects of trauma-based mind control. We also discuss the effect of the activities of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation on therapy and access to survivors and the public's changing perception of these issues.-----------------------------------------------------------------------Wayne Morris and the International Connection Radio Show are proud to deliver the entire nine-month series in this rare exclusive format. (International Connection 2003)The Mind Control Radio Series, a series on Canadian involvement in U.S. CIA and military mind control programs and the links to ritual abuse.International Connection Host Wayne Morris interviewed survivors, therapists, researchers, and writers regarding unethical mind control experiments carried out by Canada and the United States on Toronto radio station CKLN-FM 88.1 Sunday mornings at 9:30 AM."Mind Control Radio Series" focused on different issues of military and government use of mind control with a focus on the Canadian involvement in the experimental programs including:- The documented history of CIA/military mind control programs including the funding of projects at Canadian institutes across the country (Including the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal).- The military and intelligence uses of mind control including using the child victims for sexual blackmail, message delivery, information stealing, coercion and assassination.- The use of Multiple Personality Disorder for mind control programming and the links to the MPD effects of ritual abuse, sexual abuse and severe trauma- The public debate around recovered memories of abuse- The nature of the mind control experiments from survivors' accounts-------------------------------------------------CONNECT WITH EMMA / THE IMAGINATION: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@imaginationpodcastofficialRumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheImaginationPodcastEMAIL: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.com OR standbysurvivors@protonmail.comMySupport the show
Send me a DM here (it doesn't let me respond), OR email me: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.comThis is the 10th episode feature of the CKLN Mind Control Radio Series that will be airing on all my channels. These lectures, interviews, and presentations are some of the most important documentations on mind control that you will find. This series is extremely difficult to find online and has stood the test of time since 1997 when it aired on CKLN Radio. I will be airing this series over the next couple months for 'Movie Night'. If you listen to this entire series, it'll tremendously help your understanding of MK ULTRA and trauma-based mind control. You will hear from renowned experts, advocates, educators, therapists, survivors, whistleblowers, and researchers who helped pave the way for where we are today. Much of the information you have heard in this series has been suppressed over the years, and some of it may be slightly outdated due to being ahead of it's time. Please pay attention and treat this like going to class - it's a series unlike anything you'll ever hear and I'm grateful to be able to bring this series back to life! Enjoy (and take copious notes!).----------------------------------------------------------------------Jon Rappoport Presents "The CIA, Mind Control & Children"Investigative journalist Jon Rappoport gives a talk entitled "The CIA, Mind Control and Children" about the CIA's abuse of children to create mind control agents. Author of "U.S. Government Mind Control Experiments on Children", he talks about the impact of the mind control testimony submitted to the Presidential hearings on radiation experiments. Jon speaks about the mindset of those responsible for these horrors, the Nazi connections with the mind control doctors and the implications of mind control on society.-----------------------------------------------------------------------Wayne Morris and the International Connection Radio Show are proud to deliver the entire nine-month series in this rare exclusive format. (International Connection 2003)The Mind Control Radio Series, a series on Canadian involvement in U.S. CIA and military mind control programs and the links to ritual abuse.International Connection Host Wayne Morris interviewed survivors, therapists, researchers, and writers regarding unethical mind control experiments carried out by Canada and the United States on Toronto radio station CKLN-FM 88.1 Sunday mornings at 9:30 AM."Mind Control Radio Series" focused on different issues of military and government use of mind control with a focus on the Canadian involvement in the experimental programs including:- The documented history of CIA/military mind control programs including the funding of projects at Canadian institutes across the country (Including the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal).- The military and intelligence uses of mind control including using the child victims for sexual blackmail, message delivery, information stealing, coercion and assassination.- The use of Multiple Personality Disorder for mind control programming and the links to the MPD effects of ritual abuse, sexual abuse and severe trauma- The public debate around recovered memories of abuse- The nature of the mind control experiments from survivors' accounts-------------------------------------------------CONNECT WITH EMMA / THE IMAGINATION: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@imaginationpodcastofficialRumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheImaginationPodcastEMAIL: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.com OR standbysurvivors@protonmail.comMy Substack: https://emmakatherine.substack.com/BUY ME A COFFEE: httpSupport the show
Send me a DM here (it doesn't let me respond), OR email me: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.comThis is the 9th episode feature of the CKLN Mind Control Radio Series that will be airing on all my channels. These lectures, interviews, and presentations are some of the most important documentations on mind control that you will find. This series is extremely difficult to find online and has stood the test of time since 1997 when it aired on CKLN Radio. I will be airing this series over the next couple months for 'Movie Night'. If you listen to this entire series, it'll tremendously help your understanding of MK ULTRA and trauma-based mind control. You will hear from renowned experts, advocates, educators, therapists, survivors, whistleblowers, and researchers who helped pave the way for where we are today. Much of the information you have heard in this series has been suppressed over the years, and some of it may be slightly outdated due to being ahead of it's time. ----------------------------------------------------------------------Valerie Wolf, MSW presents "Assessment and Treatment of Survivors of Sadistic Abuse"Valerie Wolf, MSW presents "Assessment and Treatment of Survivors of Sadistic Abuse" at the Believe the Children conference in April, 97. Valerie gave testimony at the U.S. government radiation hearings about mind control experimentation with her clients. In this presentation, Valerie describes her methods and approach to treating survivors of mind control. She explains important factors in the healing process along with her own experiences. She also describes the different mind control programs used and how she deals with them in a therapy session. She explains her belief that in trauma-based conditioning, remembering what caused the trauma breaks the control of that conditioning. This presentation contains very valuable information for professionals working with mind control and abuse survivors.-----------------------------------------------------------------------Wayne Morris and the International Connection Radio Show are proud to deliver the entire nine-month series in this rare exclusive format. (International Connection 2003)The Mind Control Radio Series, a series on Canadian involvement in U.S. CIA and military mind control programs and the links to ritual abuse.International Connection Host Wayne Morris interviewed survivors, therapists, researchers, and writers regarding unethical mind control experiments carried out by Canada and the United States on Toronto radio station CKLN-FM 88.1 Sunday mornings at 9:30 AM."Mind Control Radio Series" focused on different issues of military and government use of mind control with a focus on the Canadian involvement in the experimental programs including:- The documented history of CIA/military mind control programs including the funding of projects at Canadian institutes across the country (Including the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal).- The military and intelligence uses of mind control including using the child victims for sexual blackmail, message delivery, information stealing, coercion and assassination.- The use of Multiple Personality Disorder for mind control programming and the links to the MPD effects of ritual abuse, sexual abuse and severe trauma- The public debate around recovered memories of abuse- The nature of the mind control experiments from survivors' accounts-------------------------------------------------CONNECT WITH EMMA / THE IMAGINATION: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@imaginationpodcastofficialRumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheImaginationPodcastEMAIL: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.cSupport the show
Send me a DM here (it doesn't let me respond), OR email me: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.comThis is the 7th episode feature of the CKLN Mind Control Radio Series that will be airing on all my channels. These lectures, interviews, and presentations are some of the most important documentations on mind control that you will find. This series is extremely difficult to find online and has stood the test of time since 1997 when it aired on CKLN Radio. I will be airing this series over the next couple months for 'Movie Night'. If you listen to this entire series, it'll tremendously help your understanding of MK ULTRA and trauma-based mind control. You will hear from renowned experts, advocates, educators, therapists, survivors, whistleblowers, and researchers who helped pave the way for where we are today. ----------------------------------------------------------------------"Interview with MK ULTRA Survivor Claudia Mullen"Wayne Morris interviews Claudia Mullen about her experience as a mind controlled slave for the US government. Claudia alleges that doctors at primarily Tulane University, New Orleans had experimented on her starting when she was 8 years old and trained her to be a sex slave for political blackmail purposes. She talks of being used to compromise military officers, politicians and other prominent officials in sex situations which was videotaped by CIA including being used to compromise Senator Frank Church during the time of the Church Committee Hearings looking into CIA wrongdoings. We discuss her testimony at the radiation hearings and her memories of experimentation including drugs, electroshock, severe traumatisation and abuse by CIA doctors such as Robert Heath, Martin Orne, Ewen Cameron, Sidney Gottlieb and others-----------------------------------------------------------------------Wayne Morris and the International Connection Radio Show are proud to deliver the entire nine-month series in this rare exclusive format. (International Connection 2003)The Mind Control Radio Series, a series on Canadian involvement in U.S. CIA and military mind control programs and the links to ritual abuse.International Connection Host Wayne Morris interviewed survivors, therapists, researchers, and writers regarding unethical mind control experiments carried out by Canada and the United States on Toronto radio station CKLN-FM 88.1 Sunday mornings at 9:30 AM."Mind Control Radio Series" focused on different issues of military and government use of mind control with a focus on the Canadian involvement in the experimental programs including:- The documented history of CIA/military mind control programs including the funding of projects at Canadian institutes across the country (Including the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal).- The military and intelligence uses of mind control including using the child victims for sexual blackmail, message delivery, information stealing, coercion and assassination.- The use of Multiple Personality Disorder for mind control programming and the links to the MPD effects of ritual abuse, sexual abuse and severe trauma- The public debate around recovered memories of abuse- The nature of the mind control experiments from survivors' accounts-------------------------------------------------CONNECT WITH EMMA / THE IMAGINATION: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@imaginationpodcastofficialRumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheImaginationPodcastEMAIL: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.com OR standbysurvivors@protonmail.comMy Substack: https://emmakatherine.substack.com/BUY ME A COFFEE: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theimaginationAll links: hSupport the show
Send me a DM here (it doesn't let me respond), OR email me: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.comThis is the 7th episode feature of the CKLN Mind Control Radio Series that will be airing on all my channels. These lectures, interviews, and presentations are some of the most important documentations on mind control that you will find. This series is extremely difficult to find online and has stood the test of time since 1997 when it aired on CKLN Radio. I will be airing this series over the next couple months for 'Movie Night'. If you listen to this entire series, it'll tremendously help your understanding of MK ULTRA and trauma-based mind control. You will hear from renowned experts, advocates, educators, therapists, survivors, whistleblowers, and researchers who helped pave the way for where we are today. Much of the information you have heard in this series has been suppressed over the years, and some of it may be slightly outdated due to being ahead of it's time. Please pay attention and treat this like going to class - it's a series unlike anything you'll ever hear and I'm grateful to be able to bring this series back to life! Enjoy (and take copious notes!).----------------------------------------------------------------------"Interview with Valerie Wolf, Claudia Mullen & Chris (DeNicola) Ebner"Immediately after giving the historic testimony of mind control experimentation to the Presidential Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, Will Snodgrass interviews Valerie Wolf, Claudia Mullen, Chris Ebner. They expand on their testimonies with information about the CIA doctors and locations involved in their experimentation and abuse, the CIA's use of children for mind control, the training of children for mind controlled sexual slavery and assassination.-----------------------------------------------------------------------Wayne Morris and the International Connection Radio Show are proud to deliver the entire nine-month series in this rare exclusive format.The Mind Control Radio Series, a series on Canadian involvement in U.S. CIA and military mind control programs and the links to ritual abuse.International Connection Host Wayne Morris interviewed survivors, therapists, researchers, and writers regarding unethical mind control experiments carried out by Canada and the United States on Toronto radio station CKLN-FM 88.1 Sunday mornings at 9:30 AM."Mind Control Radio Series" focused on different issues of military and government use of mind control with a focus on the Canadian involvement in the experimental programs including:- The documented history of CIA/military mind control programs including the funding of projects at Canadian institutes across the country (Including the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal).- The military and intelligence uses of mind control including using the child victims for sexual blackmail, message delivery, information stealing, coercion and assassination.- The use of Multiple Personality Disorder for mind control programming and the links to the MPD effects of ritual abuse, sexual abuse and severe trauma- The public debate around recovered memories of abuse- The nature of the mind control experiments from survivors' accounts-------------------------------------------------CONNECT WITH THE IMAGINATION:EMAIL: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.comMy Substack: https://emmakatherine.substack.com/BUY ME A COFFEE: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theimaginationAll links: https://diSupport the show
Send me a DM here (it doesn't let me respond), OR email me: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.comThis is the 6th episode feature of the CKLN Mind Control Radio Series that will be airing on all my channels. These lectures, interviews, and presentations are some of the most important documentations on mind control that you will find. This series is extremely difficult to find online and has stood the test of time since 1997 when it aired on CKLN Radio. I will be airing this series over the next couple months for 'Movie Night'. If you listen to this entire series, it'll tremendously help your understanding of MK ULTRA and trauma-based mind control. You will hear from renowned experts, advocates, educators, therapists, survivors, whistleblowers, and researchers who helped pave the way for where we are today. ----------------------------------------------------------------------"The History of Mind Control - What We Can Prove and What We Can't" Featuring Alan ScheflinAlan Scheflin presents "The History of Mind Control - What We Can Prove and What We Can't" which documents the several centuries of history of mind control from the use of the Malleus Malificarum in the Inquisition to the CIA's extensive mind control projects. He talks about the use of hypnosis, trauma-based dissociation, drugs, sensory deprivation, electroshock, and other methods of mind control experimentation. Alan Scheflin is a lawyer and is one of the world's foremost researchers of mind control as well as an authority in legal aspects of trauma/dissociation therapy. He has written such books as "The Mind Manipulators", "Trance on Trial", and most recently co-authored the encyclopedic "Memory, Trauma Treatment and the Law".-----------------------------------------------------------------------Wayne Morris and the International Connection Radio Show are proud to deliver the entire nine-month series in this rare exclusive format. (International Connection 2003)The Mind Control Radio Series, a series on Canadian involvement in U.S. CIA and military mind control programs and the links to ritual abuse."Mind Control Radio Series" focused on different issues of military and government use of mind control with a focus on the Canadian involvement in the experimental programs including:- The documented history of CIA/military mind control programs including the funding of projects at Canadian institutes across the country (Including the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal).- The military and intelligence uses of mind control including using the child victims for sexual blackmail, message delivery, information stealing, coercion and assassination.- The use of Multiple Personality Disorder for mind control programming and the links to the MPD effects of ritual abuse, sexual abuse and severe trauma- The public debate around recovered memories of abuse- The nature of the mind control experiments from survivors' accounts-------------------------------------------------CONNECT WITH EMMA / THE IMAGINATION: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@imaginationpodcastofficialRumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheImaginationPodcastEMAIL: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.com OR standbysurvivors@protonmail.comMy Substack: https://emmakatherine.substack.com/BUY ME A COFFEE: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theimaginationAll links: https://direct.me/theimaginationpodcastRIFE TECHNOLOGIES: Support the show
Send me a DM here (it doesn't let me respond), OR email me: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.comThis is the 5th episode feature of the CKLN Mind Control Radio Series that will be airing on all my channels. These lectures, interviews, and presentations are some of the most important documentations on mind control that you will find. I will be airing this series over the next couple months for 'Movie Night'. If you listen to this entire series, it'll tremendously help your understanding of MK ULTRA and trauma-based mind control. You will hear from renowned experts, advocates, educators, therapists, survivors, whistleblowers, and researchers who helped pave the way for where we are today. ------------------------------------------------"Overview of Mind Control" - Bowart, Scheflin, NoblittA panel presentation at the Cult and Ritual Abuse, Trauma-Based Mind Control and Dissociation symposium. Walter Bowart, author of "Operation Mind Control" talks about his research into mind control, the CIA's and military's use of mind control. Alan Scheflin addresses therapists dealing with clients with recovered memories of abuse in today's atmosphere of intimidation with the false memory movement. Scheflin states that therapists now must recognise therapy as a social influence setting and must be knowledgeable about social influence and police interrogation literature. Randy Noblitt speaks about cult and satanic ritual abuse and the use of trauma in religious ritual------------------------------------------------The Mind Control Radio Series, a series on Canadian involvement in U.S. CIA and military mind control programs and the links to ritual abuse.International Connection Host Wayne Morris interviewed survivors, therapists, researchers, and writers regarding unethical mind control experiments carried out by Canada and the United States on Toronto radio station CKLN-FM 88.1 Sunday mornings at 9:30 AM."Mind Control Radio Series" focused on different issues of military and government use of mind control with a focus on the Canadian involvement in the experimental programs including:- The documented history of CIA/military mind control programs including the funding of projects at Canadian institutes across the country (Including the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal).- The military and intelligence uses of mind control including using the child victims for sexual blackmail, message delivery, information stealing, coercion and assassination.- The use of Multiple Personality Disorder for mind control programming and the links to the MPD effects of ritual abuse, sexual abuse and severe trauma- The public debate around recovered memories of abuse- The nature of the mind control experiments from survivors' accounts-------------------------------------------------CONNECT WITH EMMA / THE IMAGINATION: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@imaginationpodcastofficialRumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheImaginationPodcastEMAIL: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.com OR standbysurvivors@protonmail.comMy Substack: https://emmakatherine.substack.com/BUY ME A COFFEE: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theimaginationAll links: https://direct.me/theimaginationpodcastRIFE TECHNOLOGIES: https://realrifetechnology.com/15% Code: 420CZTL METHELENE BLUE:Support the show
Send me a DM here (it doesn't let me respond), OR email me: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.comThis is the 4th episode feature of the CKLN Mind Control Radio Series that will be airing on all my channels. These lectures, interviews, and presentations are some of the most important documentations on mind control that you will find. This series is extremely difficult to find online and has stood the test of time since 1997 when it aired on CKLN Radio. I will be airing this series over the next couple months for 'Movie Night'. If you listen to this entire series, it'll tremendously help your understanding of MK ULTRA and trauma-based mind control. You will hear from renowned experts, advocates, educators, therapists, survivors, whistleblowers, and researchers who helped pave the way for where we are today. ------------------------------------------------Ronald Howard Cohen, writer and activist, tells his experience of being abducted while hitchhiking in the late 60's to a military base in Maryland and being severely drugged there. Ronald wrote a book about this experience and the transcripts of this book, and his life's writings were stolen by the US government. Agents of CIA, FBI, and US Army Intelligence informed Ronald that his book would not be published and offered him a job at the New York Times to keep him quiet to which he refused. He has since rewritten the book.------------------------------------------------Wayne Morris and the International Connection Radio Show are proud to deliver the entire nine-month series in this rare exclusive format. (International Connection 2003)The Mind Control Radio Series, a series on Canadian involvement in U.S. CIA and military mind control programs and the links to ritual abuse.International Connection Host Wayne Morris interviewed survivors, therapists, researchers, and writers regarding unethical mind control experiments carried out by Canada and the United States on Toronto radio station CKLN-FM 88.1 Sunday mornings at 9:30 AM."Mind Control Radio Series" focused on different issues of military and government use of mind control with a focus on the Canadian involvement in the experimental programs including:- The documented history of CIA/military mind control programs including the funding of projects at Canadian institutes across the country (Including the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal).- The military and intelligence uses of mind control including using the child victims for sexual blackmail, message delivery, information stealing, coercion and assassination.- The use of Multiple Personality Disorder for mind control programming and the links to the MPD effects of ritual abuse, sexual abuse and severe trauma- The public debate around recovered memories of abuse- The nature of the mind control experiments from survivors' accounts-------------------------------------------------CONNECT WITH EMMA / THE IMAGINATION: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@imaginationpodcastofficialRumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheImaginationPodcastEMAIL: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.com OR standbysurvivors@protonmail.comMy Substack: https://emmakatherine.substack.com/BUY ME A COFFEE: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theimaginationAll links: https://direct.me/theimaginationpodcastRIFE TECHNOLOGIES: https:Support the show
Send me a DM here (it doesn't let me respond), OR email me: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.comThis is the 3rd episode feature of the CKLN Mind Control Radio Series that will be airing on all my channels. These lectures, interviews, and presentations are some of the most important documentation on mind control that you will find. This series is extremely difficult to find online and has stood the test of time since 1999 when it aired on CKLN Radio. I will be airing this series over the next couple months for 'Movie Night'. If you listen to this entire series, it'll tremendously help your understanding of MK ULTRA and trauma-based mind control. You will hear from renowned experts, advocates, educators, therapists, survivors, whistleblowers, and researchers who helped pave the way for where we are today. Much of the information you have heard in this series has been suppressed over the years, and some of it may be slightly outdated due to being ahead of it's time. Please pay attention and treat this like going to class - it's a series unlike anything you'll ever hear and I'm grateful to be able to bring this series back to life! Enjoy (and take copious notes!).--------------------------------------------------"Claudia Mullen & Radiation Hearings Mind Control Testimony"Claudia Mullen describes the experience of giving testimony at the Presidential hearings on human radiation experiments as a survivor of government radiation and mind control experiments. Side B of this tape is the actual testimony given on March 15,1995 to President Clinton's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments by Claudia Mullen, Chris DeNicola and their therapist Valerie Wolf regarding government mind control experimentation. This historic testimony broke the silence about government-sponsored mind control experiments on children.--------------------------------------------------CONNECT WITH EMMA / THE IMAGINATION: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@imaginationpodcastofficialRumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheImaginationPodcastEMAIL: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.com OR standbysurvivors@protonmail.comMy Substack: https://emmakatherine.substack.com/BUY ME A COFFEE: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theimaginationAll links: https://direct.me/theimaginationpodcastRIFE TECHNOLOGIES: https://realrifetechnology.com/15% Code: 420CZTL METHELENE BLUE:https://cztl.bz?ref=2BzG1Free Shipping Code: IMAGINATIONSupport the show
Send me a DM here (it doesn't let me respond), OR email me: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.comThis is the 2nd episode feature of the CKLN Mind Control Radio Series that will be airing on all my channels. These lectures, interviews, and presentations are some of the most important documentation on mind control that you will find. This series is extremely difficult to find online and has stood the test of time since 1999 when it aired on CKLN Radio. I will be airing this series over the next couple months for 'Movie Night'. If you listen to this entire series, it'll tremendously help your understanding of MK ULTRA and trauma-based mind control. You will hear from renowned experts, advocates, educators, therapists, survivors, whistleblowers, and researchers who helped pave the way for where we are today. Much of the information you have heard in this series has been suppressed over the years, and some of it may be slightly outdated due to being ahead of it's time. Please pay attention and treat this like going to class - it's a series unlike anything you'll ever hear and I'm grateful to be able to bring this series back to life! Enjoy (and take copious notes!).-------------------------------------"History of Mind Control, Deliberate Dissociation in Children, & Human Experimentation" - Dr. Colin Ross is interviewed by CKLN Radio Host, Wayne Morris in 1999Wayne Morris interviews Dr. Colin Ross about dissociation and the many CIA mind control projects including those that involved creating dissociation or multiple personalities in children. We discuss Canada's involvement in the mind control projects, the involvement of doctors, universities, hospitals, prisons, and other institutions across Canada and the U.S. in CIA mind control experiments. We also discuss the documented history of U.S. government mind control experiments on children including LSD and electronic brain implant experimentation.CONNECT WITH EMMA / THE IMAGINATION: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@imaginationpodcastofficialRumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheImaginationPodcastEMAIL: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.com OR standbysurvivors@protonmail.comMy Substack: https://emmakatherine.substack.com/BUY ME A COFFEE: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theimaginationAll links: https://direct.me/theimaginationpodcastRIFE TECHNOLOGIES: https://realrifetechnology.com/15% Code: 420CZTL METHELENE BLUE:https://cztl.bz?ref=2BzG1Free Shipping Code: IMAGINATIONSupport the show
Send me a DM here (it doesn't let me respond), OR email me: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.comThis is the 1st episode feature of the CKLN Mind Control Radio Series that will be airing on all my channels. These lectures, interviews, and presentations are some of the most important documentation on mind control that you will find. This series is extremely difficult to find online and has stood the test of time since 1999 when it aired on CKLN Radio. I will be airing this series over the next couple months for 'Movie Night'. If you listen to this entire series, it'll tremendously help your understanding of MK ULTRA and trauma-based mind control. You will hear from renowned experts, advocates, educators, therapists, survivors, whistleblowers, and researchers who helped pave the way for where we are today. Much of the information you have heard in this series has been suppressed over the years, and some of it may be slightly outdated due to being ahead of it's time. Please pay attention and treat this like going to class - it's a series unlike anything you'll ever hear and I'm grateful to be able to bring this series back to life! Enjoy (and take copious notes!).--------------------------------------------------"The CIA and Military Mind Control Research: Building the Manchurian Candidate"A lecture by Dr. Colin Ross entitled "The CIA and Military Mind Control Research: Building the Manchurian Candidate" given April 18, 1996 in Orange County, California. Dr. Ross gives a thorough overview of the documented history of US CIA and military mind control experimentation, particularly creating mind-controlled agents using hypnosis and trauma-based dissociation (or multiple personalities). He talks about extensive bizarre experimental projects and the many CIA mind control contracts with top psychiatrists, psychologists and institutions. He discusses Canadian doctor George Estabrooks and his role in developing Manchurian Candidate agents for military, intelligence, and police agencies using hypnosis, drugs, brain implants, and trauma-based dissociation.CONNECT WITH EMMA / THE IMAGINATION:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@imaginationpodcastofficialRumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheImaginationPodcastEMAIL: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.com OR standbysurvivors@protonmail.comMy Substack: https://emmakatherine.substack.com/BUY ME A COFFEE: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theimaginationAll links: https://direct.me/theimaginationpodcastRIFE TECHNOLOGIES:https://realrifetechnology.com/15% Code: 420CZTL METHELENE BLUE:https://cztl.bz?ref=2BzG1Free Shipping Code: IMAGINATIONSupport the show
Send me a DM here (it doesn't let me respond), OR email me: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.comThis is the 1st episode feature of the CKLN Mind Control Radio Series that will be airing on all my channels. These lectures, interviews, and presentations are some of the most important documentation on mind control that you will find. This series is extremely difficult to find online and has stood the test of time since 1999 when it aired on CKLN Radio. I will be airing this series over the next couple months for 'Movie Night'. If you listen to this entire series, it'll tremendously help your understanding of MK ULTRA and trauma-based mind control. You will hear from renowned experts, advocates, educators, therapists, survivors, whistleblowers, and researchers who helped pave the way for where we are today. Much of the information you have heard in this series has been suppressed over the years, and some of it may be slightly outdated due to being ahead of it's time. Please pay attention and treat this like going to class - it's a series unlike anything you'll ever hear and I'm grateful to be able to bring this series back to life! Enjoy (and take copious notes!).--------------------------------------------------"The CIA and Military Mind Control Research: Building the Manchurian Candidate" A lecture by Dr. Colin Ross entitled "The CIA and Military Mind Control Research: Building the Manchurian Candidate" given April 18, 1996 in Orange County, California. Dr. Ross gives a thorough overview of the documented history of US CIA and military mind control experimentation, particularly creating mind-controlled agents using hypnosis and trauma-based dissociation (or multiple personalities). He talks about extensive bizarre experimental projects and the many CIA mind control contracts with top psychiatrists, psychologists and institutions. He discusses Canadian doctor George Estabrooks and his role in developing Manchurian Candidate agents for military, intelligence, and police agencies using hypnosis, drugs, brain implants, and trauma-based dissociation.CONNECT WITH EMMA / THE IMAGINATION: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@imaginationpodcastofficialRumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheImaginationPodcastEMAIL: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.com OR standbysurvivors@protonmail.comMy Substack: https://emmakatherine.substack.com/BUY ME A COFFEE: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theimaginationAll links: https://direct.me/theimaginationpodcastRIFE TECHNOLOGIES: https://realrifetechnology.com/15% Code: 420CZTL METHELENE BLUE:https://cztl.bz?ref=2BzG1Free Shipping Code: IMAGINATIONSupport the show
Joeita interviews Arthur Gwynne, operations manager at RAMPD, the Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities, about creating disability-inclusive spaces in the performing arts.HighlightsDisability Inclusion in the Performing Arts - Opening Remarks (00:00)Introducing Arthur Gwynne – Head of Operations at RAMPD (01:11)About RAMPD - Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities (01:38)The Origins of RAMPD (03:11)The RAMPD Community (07:48)Disability Advocacy in the Music Industry (12:25)Pushing the Boundaries of Art Itself (20:13)Closing Remarks (26:08)RAMPD – Award-winning platform equipping the Music Industry with Disability inclusive solutions, programs, and a directory of peer-vetted music professionals and creators with disabilities, neurodivergence and chronic and mental health conditions.Find RAMPD online - Facebook, InstagramArthur Gwynne Bio - from LinkedInArthur heads operations for the award-winning platform RAMPD (Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities) where he's collaborated with the likes of Netflix and the Recording Academy to build inclusive programming. Arthur also manages the career of globally touring recording artist, charting songwriter and cultural activist Lachi—the go-to voice on Disability Culture in the music industry through her work on the GRAMMYs Board and as CEO of RAMPD. Throughout the course of this mission-work, Arthur stepped away from a career in executive recruitment, and opened up publicly about his own neurodiversity. Today Arthur runs a robust diverse team, booking national tours, negotiating major contracts, working everything from creative projects and music releases to development programs from cradle-to-grave. Arthur speaks on panels and podcasts—at places like the Kennedy Center and the Music Managers Forum—on how embracing one's neurodivergence is an asset in the music industry. He has also made it his mission to break down the silos and barriers holding back the disability community, laying seeds for a national conversation on Disability Culture and what Inclusion and Universal Accessible Design means at a practical and industrial level. Beyond all of this, Arthur is Lachi's stylist, and designs her iconic Glam Canes. About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
Joeita interviews Darryl Adams, Director of Accessibility at Intel, about his journey with accessible technology and his predictions about AI as a vehicle for disability inclusion. Highlights:Disability, Access & Technology - Opening Remarks (00:00)Darryl Adams, Director of Accessibility at Intel (01:13)Computer Architecture, Hardware & Accessibility (01:29)Darryl's Journey with Intel and Access Tech (02:37)Embracing Technology in a Different Way (04:27)Challenges Pursuing Accessibility (06:17)Artificial Intelligence, Accessibility & Intel (09:11)Generative AI (12:28)Privacy Concerns Surrounding AI (13:36)Intel's New Indoor Wayfinding Initiative (15:23)Wayfinding Tech Demo at Paris Olympics (17:30)Keeping Wayfinding Maps Up to Date (18:45)Darryl's Vision for the Future of Access Tech (21:17)Closing Remarks (22:54)It All Started in the CafeteriaDarryl Adams' mission to make a more accessible PC started with an epiphany in the Intel cafeteria in 2007. Adams was meeting his colleague, to discuss a new passion project: a device that would scan printed text and read it out loud for people with severe dyslexia, like his colleague, or visual impairment, like Adams.Fast forward to today, Darryl Adams is the Director of the Intel Accessibility Office.Darryl Adams Opinion piece: “Intel's Commitment to Building an Inclusive and Accessible World" Accessibility at Intel Follow Darryl Adams online: LinkedIn, X / Twitter About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
This week, Joeita interviews Kendall Soucie, director of the HEAL Lab at the University of Windsor, about Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS). HighlightsPolycystic Ovary Syndrome Diagnosis (PCOS) - Opening Remarks (00:00)Introducing Kendall Soucie – Director of the HEAL Lab (01:05)What is PCOS? (3:00)What Causes PCOS? (5:21)Stigma Around Women's Reproductive Health (06:25)PCOS Impacts Beyond Fertility (09:58)Long Term Use of Birth Control Pills (14:55)Alternative Treatments & Lifestyle Changes (16:48)Body Image, Femininity & PCOS (19:50)Disclosure & Supporting Someone with PCOS (24:25)Closing Remarks (30:40)Guest BioDr. Kendall Soucie is an assistant professor of psychology in the applied social psychology department at the University of Windsor. She's also the director of the HEAL Lab, which is the health experience and longevity lab.Reference:Health Experiences and Longevity Lab The Health Experiences and Longevity (HEAL) Lab is directed by Dr. Kendall Soucie in the Department of Psychology at the University of Windsor.Her research interests lie at the intersection of Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology. She is interested in understanding the psychosocial and institutional determinants of chronic health conditions (e.g., diagnosis experiences, misdiagnoses/errors, illness disclosures, social support, and illness stigma) within women's health. Her focus is on PCOS, the most common, yet misdiagnosed endocrine syndrome in individuals assigned female at birth, but she is also interested in IBD, HS, POTS, and endometriosis, and their impact on quality of life. Dr. Soucie also explores how chronic health conditions impact a person's identity/life story, body image, and relationships with others, across the lifespan. She focuses on aspects of strength, resilience, and healing, and building community in her work, with her most recent set of studies exploring "thriving with PCOS across the lifespan". Her second area of interest lies in understanding how youth contribute to their communities during the transition to adulthood--with foci on youth generativity, prosocial engagement, and environmental justice. Dr. Soucie integrates quantitative (SEM, HLM) and qualitative (life narrative/autobiography, interviews, arts-based methods) approaches to better understand these domains of study.Monash University PCOS Guideline - This International evidence-based guideline for the assessment and management of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is designed to provide clear information to assist shared decision-making and support optimal patient care and better health outcomes for the one in eight women affected by this condition.It is the culmination of the engagement of over 3,000 health professionals and the work of 100+ multidisciplinary clinical and lived experience experts from six continents and 71 countries internationally. About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
We discuss the new Ojibwe-dubbed version of Star Wars: A New Hope with Maeengan Linklater, Operations Director of the Dakota Ojibway Tribal Council, and Michael Kohn, Director of Distribution Operations for Lucasfilm. The interview discusses why projects like these are so important to the revitalization of Indigenous languages. Highlights:The Preservation of Indigenous Languages - Opening Remarks (00:00)Star Wars: A New Hope in Ojibwe – Trailer (01:24)Introducing Maeengan Linklater - Director of Operations of the Dakota Ojibwe Tribal Council (03:27)Origins of Star Wars Ojibwe Project (03:43)Process of Translating Star Wars into Ojibwe (08:25)Revitalization of Indigenous Languages (15:16)Introducing Michael Kohn - Director of Distribution Operations for Lucasfilm (18:11)Working on the Navajo Version of Star Wars (18:29)Differences Between Making the Navajo & Ojibwe Versions (19:47)Casting Ojibwe Star Wars (20:37)Impact of Navajo Version of Star Wars (22:02)Why Star Wars? (23:11)Parallels Between Indigenous Culture and Star Wars (24:24)Other Opportunities (25:14)Closing Remarks (26:40)Reference:APTN Announcement CBC Article - "This is going to be huge,' Manitoba actress says as premiere of Ojibwe-dubbed Star Wars film nears"Dakota Ojibway Tribal Council About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
This week, Joeita speaks to Cameroon-based disability rights activist, journalist, and lecturer Kesah Princely Nfortoh about the impact of the country's civil war on People with Disabilities in Cameroon and the importance of involving People with Disabilities in the peace process. HighlightsDisability, War & the Peace Process - Opening Remarks (00:00)Introducing Kesah Princely Nfortoh (01:10)The Anglophone Conflict in Cameroon (01:41)Impact of Conflict on Persons with Disabilities (03:57)Kidnapping of Blind University Student (05:59)Disability News Africa (08:30)Importance of Access to Technology (14:53)Supporting the Peace Process & Disability Inclusion (18:29)Involving People with Disabilities in the Peace Process (19:53)Closing Remarks (22:42)Show Close (23:38)LinksFoundation for the Inclusion and Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Disability News Africa Find Kesah Princely Nfortoh online: LinkedIn, X About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
This week, Joeita speaks to Ely Tee, founder of "Gimping", a Facebook group about camping and outdoor activities for People with Disabilities.HighlightsMaking the Outdoors Accessible - Opening Remarks (00:00)Introducing Ely T & “Gimping” (01:04)Starting the “Gimping” Facebook Group for Adaptive Camping & Outdoorsing for People with Disabilities (02:32)Accessible Camping Tips & Tricks (03:16)Ely the Adventurer (05:11)The Call of the Wild (06:34)Accessible Campsites & Provincial Parks (09:14)Accessibility Improvements (10:59)Financial Barriers to Accessing the Outdoors (11:37)Planning for an Outdoors Excursion (13:07)Camping with Others (16:20)Unforeseen Situations & Camping Emergencies (17:51)Essential Items for Backcountry Exploration (20:29)Getting Started (22:50)Show Close (24:48)"Gimping" Facebook Group About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
This week Joeita speaks to blind YouTuber Sam Seavey, creator of the Blind Life YouTube channel.HighlightsBlindness & Technology - Opening Remarks (00:00)Introducing Sam Seavey – YouTuber & Host of the Blind Life (01:13)Growing the Channel & Standing Out from the Crowd (03:06)Knowing Your Audience (04:51)Latest Tech Developments for the Blind (05:56)Applications of AI (08:18)Ethics of Adopting AI in the Blind and Low Vision Community (10:24)Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality & the Visually Impaired (12:00)Patriot Viewpoint Edge Enhancement (14:40)DIY Tech Solutions (15:47)Addressing the Digital Divide (17:05)Financial Barriers to Accessing Assistive Devices (18:51)TechnoAbleism & “Fixing Disability” (21:04)Blind & Low Vision Innovators in the Tech Field (24:06)Exciting Accessible Tech on the Horizon (25:11)Show Close (26:09)About Sam SeaveySam was diagnosed at age 11 with Stargardt's, an early onset form of macular degeneration, and was legally blind by his mid-teens. Over the last 30 years, he has developed an extensive background in research and understanding of assistive devices and techniques of living with low vision.Sam is the founder and creator of The Blind Life YouTube Channel, which, according to a recent article from the Foundation Fighting Blindness, “is currently the largest resource for assistive technology on the internet.” With more than 50,000 subscribers and over 700 informative videos, Sam helps people world-wide living with vision loss, offering tips for managing daily tasks, reviewing assistive devices, and hosting informative interviews with key stakeholders in the visually impaired community. Sam is recognized as an expert when speaking and presenting at national conferences. Featured in USA TODAY, WIREDMagazine, and numerous national and international podcasts on assistive technology, he collaborates with tech giants like Google, SONY and Amazon, has created content for numerous websites and participates on Microsoft's Window's Accessibility Advisory Board. Sam currently manages the A-T program at a nonprofit where he provides training on assistive devices ranging from low tech items like simple bump dots and magnifiers, to phone apps and assistive computer software. Whether he's working one on one with clients or through his YouTube videos, Sam's goal is to help everyone live their BEST BLIND LIFES!Links: The Blind Life Website, YouTube & Podcast About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
We preview the Desiring Autism and Neurodivergence Symposium with Patty Douglas,Associate Professor of Disability Studies & Chair of Student Success and Wellness at Queen's University & Metis Beadworker & Visual Artist Claire Johnston.Highlights:Autism & Neurodiversity in Educational Settings - Opening Remarks (00:00)Introducing Patricia Douglas - Associate Professor of Disability Studies & Chair of Student Success and Wellness at Queens University (01:31)Desiring Autism and Neurodivergence Symposium (02:32)Desiring Versus Inclusion or Acceptance (04:02)Conference Themes & Agenda (06:50)Including Artists in Academic Discussions (9:28)Target Audience for Symposium (12:20)Registering for the Symposium (15:03)Introducing Claire Johnston - Metis Beadworker & Visual Artist (16:25)Storytelling & Bead Making Workshop (16:56)Indigenous Perspective Around Autism & Neurodiversity (18:56)Metis Bead Work (23:51)Show Close (26:54)Guest Bio'sPatty Douglas Patty Douglas (she/they) is a former special education teacher in Ontario and British Columbia and an Associate Professor of Disability Studies in the Faculty of Education at Queen's University. She is a Senior Research Affiliate at the Re•Vision Centre for Art and Social Justice at the University of Guelph. Her research focuses on rethinking deficit approaches to disability at the intersection of difference in education using critical and creative approaches including disability studies, critical autism studies, mad (m)othering, decolonial studies and arts-based and creative methodologies. Douglas founded and currently leads the Re•Storying Autism in Education project (SSHRC Insight Grant www.restoryingautism.com), a multimedia storytelling project in Canada, the UK and Aotearoa (New Zealand) that collaboratively reimagines autism and practice in education and health in ways that centre historically excluded perspectives and affirm and desire difference. As a white settler academic, Douglas is deeply committed to decolonizing research. She identifies as neurodivergent and invisibly disabled. Her monograph, Unmothering Autism: Ethical Disruptions and Affirming Care is in production with UBC Press.Douglas offers talks, consulting, and professional development for school divisions, educators and practitioners interested in neurodiversity affirming approaches.Re•Storying Autism in Education Re•Storying Autism in Education is a multimedia storytelling project that brings together Autistic people, family members, practitioners, educators and artists to rethink practice in ways that desire the difference of Autism.Claire Johnston Claire Johnston(she/they) is a Métis beadworker based in her Homeland of Winnipeg, MB. Claire's beadwork practice is informed by the strengthening of relationships -- with herself, her kin and the natural world. As an Autistic beadworker, her love of bright colours and attention to detail allow for vibrant and intricate pieces. Claire believes strongly in "cripping" the arts and expanding accessibility for Disabled and low-income Indigenous artists to thrive. Her work has been exhibited at both the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art in Vancouver, BC and Tangled Arts in Toronto, ON.She is a steering committee member for the Critical Autism Summit that will take place in Manitoba in 2024, where she will host beading circles to facilitate discussions on decolonizing understandings of Autism and neurodiversity.Find more of Claire's work online: https://www.clairejohnston.net/ About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
Joeita speaks to blind filmmaker James Rath about his journey in film production and direction. Part 2 of a 2-part series. HighlightsBlindness, the Gaze & Filmmaking - Opening Remarks (00:00)Introducing James Rath - Legally Blind Film Director, Accessibility Advocate & Speaker (01:56)Becoming a Blind Filmmaker (02:20)The Impact of YouTube (04:49)Using a Camera & Editing Video as a Blind Person (7:55)Finding Inspiration (12:13)Collaborating with Major Brands (15:30)Working with a Cast & Crew (19:25)Upcoming Projects (22:10)Show Close (25:44)Guest BioBorn legally blind with non-correctable conditions, Ocular Albinism and Nystagmus, James found a love for the camera when he realized, at its core, it's just a hi-tech magnifier. Since the age of 8, James has actively filmed videos for the digital age.Through his YouTube channel, film work, and public speeches, James explores how technology enhances lives, particularly for those with disabilities. His work not only educates but also entertains, empowers, encouraging a deeper understanding and appreciation of the disabled community.Links:James Rath's WebsiteSEE DIFFERENT SEE DIFFERENT is an initiative founded by filmmaker and content creator James Rath, aimed at promoting accessibility and innovation through storytelling and community engagement. Born with blindness, James uses his unique perspective to challenge norms and inspire change.James Rath on YouTube About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
Joeita speaks to scriptwriter and disabled TV producer Ophira Calof about the Disabled Producers Lab a new program designed to teach production skills to disabled women and trans creators. Part 1 of a 2 part series. HighlightsDisability Stereotypes - Opening Remarks (00:00)Introducing Ophira Calof – Writer, Performer & Facilitator (01:54)Cripping the Script (04:00)Shifting Our Structures (05:00)The Role of the Storyteller (06:51)Representation & Disability Narratives (10:18)Disabled Producers Lab (12:46)Addressing Barriers, Ableism & Broader Structural Issues (19:50)Increasing Disability Representation in the TV Landscape (23:07)Disabled Producers Lab Application Process (25:17)Show Close (27:01)Guest Bio - Ophira Calof (pronouns: they/she) is a multi-award winning Disabled writer and performer who is drawn to character driven stories that combine humour and heart while subverting narrative tropes and works to “crip the script,” centring disability knowledge and experience. Their recent credits include One More Time (CBC), Rubble and Crew (Treehouse TV), PUSH (CBC), Shelved (CTV), Dino Dex (Amazon Prime), Welcome Series (Titan1Studios), and their solo show Literally Titanium, which has been featured in both academic and performance spaces as a case study in accessible production.Ophira is also the creative director for the Accessible Writers' Lab, a national initiative presented by AMI, RAFFTO and sponsored by the Canada Media Fund and Telefilm, to experiment with what an accessible tv writers' room might involve. Ophira was the accessibility process lead for AccessCBC, and the curatorial committee lead for the 2022 ReelAbilities Film Festival Toronto. They have taught workshops and provided mentorship internationally on storytelling, writing, music, accessibility and disability narratives, and created the courses Sketch Comedy with Ophira Calof and Crip Storytelling, a series in partnership with Centre of Independent Living Toronto and the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre.Additionally, Ophira has created a number of disability arts projects including the series Making Space: Stories of Disabled Youth Past and Present (Myseum Toronto/RAFFTO) and Dis/Play, a public arts project that projected the stories of over 50 Deaf and Disabled creatives onto exterior building walls across the city (MNJCC/RAFFTO/ArtWorxTO: Toronto's Year of Public Art 2021-2022).Ophira graduated from Second City's Writing and Sketch Conservatory programs and the Buddies in Bad Times Theatre Emerging Creator's Unit. They were featured in the Second City 2018 Toronto Diversity Fellowship Showcase, are the 2018 recipient of the Tim Sims Encouragement Award and received the 2021 Cahoots Theatre Promising Pen Prize. They were also named a TV writing fellow for the 2022 RespectAbility Lab for Entertainment Professionals with Disabilities and are currently taking part in the 2023 Warner Brothers Discovery Access X Canadian Academy Writers Program.Disability Screen Office: The Disability Screen Office is a national, not-for-profit organization that works with the Canadian screen industry to eliminate accessibility barriers and foster authentic and meaningful disability representation throughout the sector.We are excited to help make the Canadian media industry more inclusive, and look forward to amplifying the voices of people with disabilities across the Canadian media landscape.Disabled Producers Lab: The Disabled Producers Lab is a part-time, online program designed as a space for disabled producers marginalized by gender across Canada including, but not limited to, transgender women, cisgender women, transgender men, non-binary people and many other gender identities.Up to five participants will enter the lab with a completed short film script (up to 10 minutes or 10 to 11 pages) and be paired with an industry mentor to support them in developing a comprehensive production binder for the film featuring a realistic schedule, budget, accessibility plan and pitch package.This lab aims to strengthen the skills and knowledge required to be a successful producer and create systemic change within the production industry by fostering an environment where accessibility is at the forefront of production practices, challenging and reshaping industry norms. About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
Joeita speaks to sex educator and host of AMI-tv's "That Sex Show", Rachele Manett about how parents & caregivers of youths with disabilities can have meaningful conversations about sex, sexuality and gender identity.HighlightsOpening Remarks (00:00)Introducing Rachele Manett (01:30)KNEDS - Knowledge Network of Expertise in Disability and Sexuality (03:32)Disability, Sexuality, and the Role of the Caregiver (05:43)Reasons for Lack of Comfort Discussing Sexuality & Disability (07:04)The Desexualizing of People with Disabilities (08:46)Personal Support Workers, Caregivers, Intimacy & Sexuality (10:22)Resources Related to Disability & Sexuality (12:42)Conversations Surrounding Sex Toys & Supplies (17:43)When to Start Discussing Sexuality, Consent & Privacy (19:26)Sex Education & Disability in the School System (21:44)Advice for Parents & Caregivers (24:27)Show Close (25:37)Guest Bio (courtesy of Venus Envy)Rachele Manett (they/she) is a queer, disabled sex educator, and host of Accessible Media Inc's That Sex Show. Their work is influenced by their own experience with disability, as well as a background in recreation therapy and a masters degree exploring acquired physical disability and sexuality. While her work explores all sorts of sexuality-related topics, Rachele holds a particular love towards disabled sexuality and accessible sex practices.Watch “That Sex Show” on AMISee Rachelle in “Our Community: Accessing Pleasure”In this episode of Our Community: The Tetra Society's focus is to find solutions to overcome environmental barriers faced by people with disabilities, including sex toys. In this episode, we'll follow each step of a request being fulfilled.More on the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital ProFILE LabThe ProFILE Lab is part of the Bloorview Research Institute at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, and is led by Dr. Amy McPherson, Senior Scientist at Holland Bloorview and Associate Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Institute at the University of Toronto. Amy is a Chartered member of the British Psychological Society, Division of Health Psychology. She is also a psychotherapy trainee.The work conducted in the ProFILE Lab addresses timely research questions around the promotion of the health and wellness of children with disabilities and long-term conditions. Weight management, body diversity, sexuality, mental health, and disordered eating are priority areas of investigation. The lab regularly involves family stakeholders in research study teams to ensure research is timely and relevant. About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
Joeita speaks to blind self-defence instructor and Brazilian Ju-jitsu practitioner Jim Turk about the relationship between martial arts and self-confidence for People with Disabilities. HighlightsThe Benefits of Self-Defence - Opening Remarks (00:00)Introducing Jim Turk, Martial Artist & Self-Defence Instructor (01:56)Practicing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (02:53)Learning Martial Arts as a Blind Student (04:22)Discovering Jiu-Jitsu (05:46)Appeal of Martial Arts During Vision Loss Journey (07:13)Building Confidence & Traveling Independently (09:05)Defending Yourself in Public (11:18)Techniques to Break Someone's Grip (12:44)Teaching Sighted and Blind Students (14:20)Empowerment Through Martial Arts (16:17)Deciding to Teach (19:25)Mental Health Benefits (20:09)Class Size (21:53)Competitions & Belts (22:41)Teaching Sighted Students (23:47)Online Lessons (24:21)Fight Back Self Defense (25:20)Tips for the Blind Traveler (26:30)Show Close (28:33)About Jim Turk & Fight Back Self Defense"My name is Jim Turk. I am a self-defense instructor, and also happen to be completely blind. It is an unfortunate fact that criminals often target people who are perceived, for whatever reason, as "easy targets". The reasons for this perception could range from a person's age, gender, physical size, or, as in my case, a noticeable disability. Regardless of the reason for this perception of vulnerability, assaults against people in these categories tend to be very similar in nature to one another. For this reason, the self-defense principles and techniques I teach are useful to a wide range of individuals, such as senior citizens, women, children, and those with disabilities. After I began losing my vision, I started becoming more interested in personal safety and self-defense. I have since earned my blue belt in the martial art Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and have received my certification as a coach in the OneTouch self-defense system, which was specifically designed for blind people. The more I learn, the more I wanted to be able to share my knowledge with others, so I have started my own business teaching self-defense, called Fight Back. I am located in Villa Park, IL, and I am available to teach private lessons or group classes."Contact Jim Turk for more info: fightbackllc@gmail.comMore About Jim TurkSelf-Defense Instructor Jim Turk Receives 2019 Council Excellence Award About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
Joeita speaks to Devon Healey, assistant professor of disability studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto, about her research into the dramatization and perception of blindness in theatre. Healey is also an award-winning actor, co-founder of Peripheral Theater and the author of “Dramatizing Blindness: Disability Studies as Critical Creative Narrative,” which came out in 2021.Highlights:“What is Blindness?” - Opening Remarks (00:00)Perceptions of Blindness (01:10)Introducing Devon Healy; Actor, Assistant Professor of Disability Studies & Author of “Dramatizing Blindness” (02:05)The Many Conceptions of Blindness (02:56)Interrogating Sightedness (06:23)Simulating Sighted Behaviour (09:28)“Blind” Performers & the Sighted Blindness Consultant (12:35)Relationship Between Theatre & Blindness (16:08)Academics & Dramatizing Blindness (17:29)Rainbow on Mars (18:56)Immersive Descriptive Audio (20:07)Radio Plays & the National Ballet (22:34)Kaleidoscopic Feelings of Blindness (26:22)More from Devon Healey (31:20)Show Close (32:02)Guest Bio Devon Healey is an Assistant Professor of Disability Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. All of her work is grounded in her experience as a blind woman guided by a desire to show how blindness specifically and disability more broadly can be understood as offering an alternate form of perception and is thus, a valuable and creative way of experiencing and knowing the world. She is the author of, Dramatizing Blindness: Disability Studies as Critical Creative Narrative (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). Devon is an award-winning actor and the co-founder of, Peripheral Theatre. In 2020 she was awarded a commission by Outside the March (Dora award-winning Toronto theatre company) to both write and perform in, Rainbow on Mars, a sensory reclamation of blindness. Prof. Healey teaches courses in critical disability studies.Follow Devon Healey on X (Twitter) -@devonkhealey About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
Joeita speaks to Hubert van Niekirk, Executive Director of Every Canadian Counts, about a campaign to create a National Disability Insurance Plan in Canada. HighlightsOpening Remarks (00:00)Introducing Hubert Van Kiekerk, Executive Director for Every Canadian Counts (01:25)The Proposed National Disability Insurance Plan (02:56)Potential Impact of Plan for Canadians with Disabilities (03:54)Relationship Between National Plan & Existing Provincial Programs (06:07)Cutting Back on Bureaucracy & Disability Admin (07:54)Benefits of NDIP for Families and Caregivers (09:40)Bringing the Australian Model to Canada (12:12)Supporting Canadian Youth with Disabilities (15:19)Cost & Viability of National Disability Insurance Plan (16:39)Governmental Cooperation (21:10)How to Get Involved with the NDIP (23:38)EveryCanadianCounts.com (26:11)Show Close (28:09)Guest BioHubert Van Niekerk, Interim Executive Director of Every Canadian CountsEducator and specialist teacher, community leader and volunteer.Hubert has a long history of working and volunteering in the disabled community. He has been involved with the Ontario Association for Developmental Education for 18 years serving as a member-at-large, president and past president. Hubert served as the president of the Council for Exceptional Children for London-Middlesex. He is on the L'Arche London board of directors. Before retirement, Hubert was a special education specialist teacher in a mostly self-contained classroom for 17 years. He taught students with a wide-range of intellectual and multiple disabilities. Hubert also engaged in a year-long teacher work exchange to Australia for the year of 2010.About Every Canadian Counts Every Canadian Counts (ECC) is calling on Canadian governments to work together to develop a national funding program to ensure essential disability supports are available to all Canadians living with chronic, long-term disabilities. ECC includes individuals living with disabilities, caregivers, advocates and support organizations.With ongoing effort through Bill C-22 (An Act to reduce poverty and to support the financial security of persons with disabilities) and the Accessible Canada Act, now's the perfect time for the "next big thing" to support Canadians with disabilities, similar to what's already been accomplished in Australia through the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) - and we can't do it without you.Reference:Article - The Australian Advantage: Speaking with One Voice"For all the plaudits and superlatives that have been laid at the feet of the NDIS in Australia, a truly breathtaking social policy initiative, it is not primarily the disability insurance idea itself nor its subsequent implementation that sets Australia apart. Rather, it was the ability of the disability community and their supporters to speak with one voice to get it done.How was that possible?" About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
Joeita previews Season 5 of AMI-tv's "Postcards from..." with the show's new host, Author & Artist Christa Couture. Christa discusses her travels to various parts of Canada, the challenges of travelling with a prosthetic, and the joy of exploring new places with all 5 senses. Highlights:Opening Remarks (00:00)Introducing Christa Couture – Writer, Musician, Broadcaster (01:19)About AMI-tv's “Postcards From…” (03:23)Season 5 Travel Locations (04:37)Drumheller, the Dinosaur Capital of North America (05:30)Navigating Rugged Terrain with a Prosthetic (08:40)Bringing Attention to Accessibility Barriers (12:26)Prairie Oysters & Testy Festy (13:42)Dawson City & Whistler (16:36)Learning to Travel More Accessibly (18:09)Accessibility in Transportation (19:58)Unpacking the Suitcase Strategy (21:34)Travelling with Small Children (22:54)The Ultimate Souvenir (24:01)Show Close (25:55)Guest Bio:Christa Couture is an award-winning performing and recording artist, non-fiction writer and broadcaster. She is also proudly Indigenous, queer, disabled and a mom. Her sixth recording, Safe Harbour, was released March 2020. Her writing has been published in Room, Shameless and Augur magazines and cbc.ca. As a speaker and storyteller, she has addressed audiences for The Walrus Talks, CBC's DNTO, Moses Znaimer's ideaCity and Imaginate in Port Hope, ON. She is a frequent contributor to CBC Radio's Now or Never and The Next Chapter, and hosts Season 5 of AMI-tv's accessible travel series “Postcards From…”Watch "Postcards From..." on AMIPlus.caFind Music from Christa Couture on Bandcamp“A remarkable chanteuse, singing superb material,” deems Roots Music of Christa Couture, an award-winning indie artist who has built a reputation for transforming tragedy into musical triumph, with sharp-shooting wit, effortless grace, and heart-on-sleeve intensity. Follow Christa Couture on FacebookChrista Couture's Book - How to Lose Everything: A MemoirChrista Couture has come to know every corner of grief—its shifting blurry edges, its traps, its pulse of love at the centre and the bittersweet truth that sorrow is a powerful and wise emotion.From the amputation of her leg as a cure for bone cancer at a young age to her first child's single day of life, the heart transplant and subsequent death of her second child, the divorce born of grief and then the thyroidectomy that threatened her career as a professional musician, How to Lose Everything delves into the heart of loss. Couture bears witness to the shift in perspective that comes with loss, and how it can deepen compassion for others, expand understanding, inspire a letting go of little things and plant a deeper feeling for what matters. At the same time, Couture's writing evokes the joy and lightness that both precede and eventually follow grief, as well as the hope and resilience that grow from connections with others."How to Lose Everything" series on CBC GemHow to Lose Everything is an Indigenous series of animated short films that explore personal stories of loss. The five films' stories span nations, languages, and perspectives on heartache.More from Christa Couture About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
Joeita discusses tips and tricks for blind home cooks with Renee Rentmeester, executive producer of the "Cooking Without Looking" TV show and podcast. She shares safety tips as well as accessible tricks of the trade.HighlightsCooking & Blindness - Opening Remarks (00:00)Introducing Renee Rentmeester of “Cooking Without Looking” TV Show and Podcast (01:10)About “Cooking Without Looking” (02:29)More on the Blind Hosts of the Show (03:47)Where to Find “Cooking Without Looking” (04:38)Typical Episode Format (05:17)Choosing Guests for the Show (07:15)Safety Tips for Blind Cooks (10:28)Safety on the Stove Top (12:55)Tips for Organizing Your Kitchen (15:00)Using Your Other Senses (16:26)Appliances, Kitchen Gadgets & Accessibility (18:11)International Cuisine (20:17)“Cooking Without Looking” Cookbook (22:51)The Most Complicated Recipe Made on the Show? (24:32)More Recipes & Tips from “Cooking without Looking” (26:19)Show Close (27:28)“Cooking Without Looking” WebsiteCooking Without Looking is the First TV Show which features People who are Blind/Visually Impaired. We provide the stage for people to show what living blind is really like, and to create a bridge of understanding.Join the “Cooking Without Looking” Facebook Group About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
Joeita speaks with Kate Mann, Associate Professor Cornell University's Sage School of Philosophy & author of "Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia," which draws on personal experience & rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms everyone, and how to combat it. HighlightsThe Insidiousness of Fatphobia - Opening Remarks (00:00)Society's Fixation on Weight & the “Ideal Body” (01:07)Introducing Kate Manne, Author of “Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia” (01:59)Philosophical Interest in Misogyny & Fatphobia (02:22)Defining Fatphobia (04:17)Complicated Relationship Between Fatness & Health (06:03)Fatphobia in the Healthcare System (10:15)Weigh-In Process & Weight-Inclusive Physicians (12:27)Diabetes, BMI & Stigma (13:19)Intersections of Fatphobia, Race, Class, Ability & Gender (16:22)The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness (18:28)Thin-Privilege (19:36)Beyond Body-Positivity (22:24)Thinsplaining - Book Excerpt (24:22)Find the Book “Unshrinking: Facing Fatphobia” (27:51)Show Close (28:33)Guest Bio - Kate Manne is an associate professor of philosophy at Cornell University, where she's been teaching since 2013. Before that, she was a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Manne did her graduate work in philosophy at MIT and is the author of two previous books, Down Girl and Entitled.“Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia” By Kate Manne from Penguin Random House“An elegant, fierce, and profound argument for fighting fat oppression in ourselves, our communities, and our culture.”—Roxane Gay, author of HungerFor as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her daughter was born. She's been bullied and belittled for her size, leading to extreme dieting. As a feminist philosopher, she wanted to believe that she was exempt from the cultural gaslighting that compels so many of us to ignore our hunger. But she was not.Blending intimate stories with the trenchant analysis that has become her signature, Manne shows why fatphobia has become a vital social justice issue. Over the last several decades, implicit bias has waned in every category, from race to sexual orientation, except one: body size. Manne examines how anti-fatness operates—how it leads us to make devastating assumptions about a person's attractiveness, fortitude, and intellect, and how it intersects with other systems of oppression. Fatphobia is responsible for wage gaps, medical neglect, and poor educational outcomes; it is a straitjacket, restricting our freedom, our movement, our potential.In this urgent call to action, Manne proposes a new politics of “body reflexivity”—a radical reevaluation of who our bodies exist in the world for: ourselves and no one else. When it comes to fatphobia, the solution is not to love our bodies more. Instead, we must dismantle the forces that control and constrain us, and remake the world to accommodate people of every size.Articles:In 'Unshrinking,' a writer discusses coming out as fat and pushing back against bias - NPR InterviewFighting Fatphobia and Embracing ‘Unshrinking': The Ms. Q&A With Kate Manne - MS Magazine Reference:Belly of the Beast The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da'Shaun L. HarrisonTo live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Hyper-policed by state and society, passed over for housing and jobs, and derided and misdiagnosed by medical professionals, fat Black people in the United States are subject to sociopolitically sanctioned discrimination, abuse, condescension, and trauma.Da'Shaun Harrison—a fat, Black, disabled, and nonbinary trans writer—offers an incisive, fresh, and precise exploration of anti-fatness as anti-Blackness, foregrounding the state-sanctioned murders of fat Black men and trans and nonbinary masculine people in historical analysis. Policing, disenfranchisement, and invisibilizing of fat Black men and trans and nonbinary masculine people are pervasive, insidious ways that anti-fat anti-Blackness shows up in everyday life. Fat people can be legally fired in forty-nine states for being fat; they're more likely to be houseless. Fat people die at higher rates from misdiagnosis or nontreatment; fat women are more likely to be sexually assaulted. And at the intersections of fatness, Blackness, disability, and gender, these abuses are exacerbated.Taking on desirability politics, the limitations of gender, the connection between anti-fatness and carcerality, and the incongruity of “health” and “healthiness” for the Black fat, Harrison viscerally and vividly illustrates the myriad harms of anti-fat anti-Blackness. They offer strategies for dismantling denial, unlearning the cultural programming that tells us “fat is bad,” and destroying the world as we know it, so the Black fat can inhabit a place not built on their subjugation. About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
Joeita speaks to Danielle Kaftarian, Executive Director of the Period Purse, about menstrual equity and what needs to change to ensure that all people who menstruate have access to period products. HighlightsPeriod Poverty & Menstrual Equity - Opening Remarks (00:00)Introducing Danielle Kaftarian, Executive Director of the Period Purse (01:22)Importance of Discussing Menstrual Equity & Period Poverty (01:40)Stigma & Lack of Political Will (02:08)Why Don't People Want to Talk About Periods? (03:28)Issues Surrounding Access & Alternatives (05:31)The Healthcare System & Menstrual Equity Fund (06:58)Offsetting the Increasing Cost-Burden of Menstrual Products (11:15)Challenges for People with Disabilities Who Might be Menstruating (13:00)Period Poverty Around the Globe (14:40)Menstrual Cups & Environmental Impacts (15:54)Employers & Menstrual Leave (18:01)Improving Comfort Levels Surrounding Menstruation (19:57)How & When to Talk About Periods Within the Family (21:17)About the Period Purse Charity (23:24)The Period Pack (24:27)Collaborating with Organizations (25:56)Donations & Sourcing Period Products (26:20)Period Purse Outside the Toronto-Area (27:18)Find the Period Purse Online (28:26)Show Close (28:45)Guest Bio - Danielle Kaftarian (she/her) - Executive Director, the Period PurseDanielle is TPP's Executive Director with ample experience! She studied Accounting and Business Administration and worked in the finance industry for over 10 years, along with other jobs. After having two children, she felt a strong desire to contribute to the community and support others. It was not until TPP was founded, that she discovered her true passion. From early TPP days, Danielle was involved in various roles, supporting its mission to achieve menstrual equity for everyone in Canada. She's proud to serve as the Executive Director with an incredible team, working tirelessly towards period equity.About the Period Purse - theperiodpurse.comThe Period Purse creates menstrual equity by ensuring sustainable access to period products for all, and by ending the stigma associated with periods through education and advocacy. About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
Joeita speaks to financial advisor Ron Malis about estate planning and financial management for a child with a disability. HighlightsFinancial Planning for a Child with a Disability - Opening Remarks (00:00)Introducing Ron Malis, Financial Advisor & Founder of Reegan Financials (01:08)Getting Started Working with People with Disabilities (02:08)When Do Parents Typically Start Planning for their Child's Future (3:41)Specific Considerations for Parents of a Child with a Disability (06:38)Impacts of Social Assistance Programs and Setting Up a Trust (08:34) All About the Henson Trust & Choosing a Trustee (10:55)Impact of Inheritances and other Income on Social Assistance Payments (18:24)Eligibility Requirements for a Henson Trust (20:22)Estate Planning in a Tax Efficient Way (21:17)Benefits of Planning Earlier in Life (24:28)Closing Remarks (26:27)Learn More about Ron Malis & Reegan Financial - https://reeganfinancial.com/about/ About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
Joeita speaks disability lawyer Sivan Tumarkin of Samfiru Tumarkin LLP about long-term disability claims and how to apply for them.HighlightsThe Ins and Outs of Long-Term Disability Claims – Opening Remarks (00:00)Introducing Sivan Tumarkin, disability lawyer and the National Co-Managing Partner of Samfiru Tumarkin LLP (01:14)What is Long-Term Disability and Who is Eligible? (02:14)Differences Between Personal Injury Claims, Workers' Compensation & Long-Term Disability Claims (03:45)LTD Claims Across Canada (05:37)How to Start the Process of a Long-Term Disability Claim (06:37)HR & the Impact of Long-Term Disability Claims on Insurance Premiums (07:41)How Long Does the LTD Claim Process Take? (10:01)Documentation Requirements & Application Process (10:47)Pre-Existing Health Conditions & Reasons Disability Claims are Disqualified (12:44)How to Appeal or Challenge a Claim Denial (14:55)The Legal Process and Taking Insurance Companies to Court (18:11)Ombudspersons & Lodging Complaints Against Insurance Companies (22:41)Impact of Changes Within Employers or Insurance Companies on LTD Benefits (23:40)Breach of Policy & Reasonable Treatments (25:02)Recurrence Clauses, Episodic Illnesses & Disabilities (26:45)The David Versus Goliath Myth (Spoiler: David Wins!) (29:10)Visit Disabilityrights.ca & LTDFAQ.ca for More Info (30:09)Closing Remarks (30:58)Guest BioSivan Tumarkin is National Co-Managing Partner of Samfiru Tumarkin LLP and heads the firm's Disability & Personal Injury Law practice group across Canada. He also acts as a mediator for parties seeking to resolve their disputes efficiently and equitably.Prior to co-founding Samfiru Tumarkin LLP, Sivan worked at one of the top insurance defence law firms in Canada. His clientele included insurance companies, municipalities and major retail corporations throughout Ontario. His previous experience working for insurance companies has given him unique insight into the long-term disability claim denial and appeals process, allowing him to secure strong results for his clientsReferenceDisability Rights WebsiteFrequently Asked Questions about Long-term Disability Claims About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
Joeita speaks with Beth Beattie and Carole Dagher about their new book “The Right Not to Remain Silent: The Truth About Mental Health in the Legal Profession” which discusses mental health and well-being amongst legal professionals. HighlightsMental Health Within the Legal Profession – Opening Remarks (00:00)Introducing Beth Beattie & Carole Dagher (01:29)“The Right Not to Remain Silent: The Truth About Mental Health in the Legal Profession” (03:12)Importance of Mental Health Amongst Legal Professionals (04:23)Fear & Secrecy Surrounding Mental Health Struggles (06:02)Contributors to “The Right Not to Remain Silent” & Mental Health Summit (08:31)What Can We Learn from Personal Essays on Mental Health? (12:27)Intersections of Mental Health, Sexism, Homophobia & Racism (15:56)Deciding to Disclose One's Invisible Disability (19:31)Reducing Stigma & Changing the Culture Within the Legal Profession (22:24)Significance of Mental Health Awareness Amongst Legal Professionals (24:22)Closing Remarks (25:23)More Info: The Right Not to Remain Silent: The Truth About Mental Health in The Legal Profession is a groundbreaking book that sets the stage for revolutionizing how mental health is perceived in the legal profession and beyond. It contains a series of candid and courageous memoirs by members of the legal profession living with mental health and addiction issues. The authors are judges, lawyers, and law professors with wide-ranging legal practices in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario including at Bay Street and small boutique firms.Young lawyers and senior members of the profession share their experiences of working while living with various types of challenges – depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, eating disorders, addiction, grief, imposter syndrome, and perfectionism.The Right Not to Remain Silent: The Truth About Mental Health in The Legal Profession addresses the insidious nature of mental health stigma and isolation in the legal community. But it is fundamentally a book about hope. As the authors discuss their sometimes harrowing journeys, they also show routes back to meaningful engagement with colleagues and work.To read these personal accounts is to be moved, inspired, and hopefully galvanized into action at the individual, collegial, and organizational level. This book offers practical solutions to change the culture of legal practice and beyond so as to bust apart stigma and isolation, foster people getting the support they need, and cultivate more diverse workplaces.Book ContributorsDavid S. GoldbloomThe Honourable George R. StrathyThe Honourable Michele HollinsBeth BeattieCarole DagherThomas TelferKatherine CooliganOrlando Da SilvaMichael R. FergusonMichael HermanAidan JohnsonImran KamalRyan MiddletonYadesha SatheaswaranLeslie Anne St. AmourDan SteinCourtney WilsonLeena YousefiBrett D.M. JonesShayan ImranM. Ishrat Husain“Postpartum depression made me feel hopeless. Not Today.” article by Carole Dagher for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Guest Bio: Beth BeattieCalled to the Bar in 1994, Beth Beattie has a broad-based health law litigation practice.Since January 2018 Beth has been a Friend of the Bell Let's Talk campaign. Her story of working as a lawyer with bipolar disorder has been featured on television, radio, podcasts, print media and even billboards across the country. Television appearances include The Marilyn Denis Show, CTV News, CTV North News, CP24 and a CTV prime time special, “In Their Own Words”.In 2021, 2022 and 2023 Beth co-chaired with the former Treasurer of the Law Society of Ontario, Teresa Donnelly, Mental Health Summits for Legal Professionals. Each year the Summits were watched by nearly 6,000 registrants.Beth is a founding member of Voices for Mental Health which is a group of employees at the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General who have lived mental health experience or who have cared for loved ones with lived experience. Voices provides programming within the Ministry of the Attorney General and beyond on topics relating to mental health.In 2022 Beth was awarded the Law Society Medal, the highest honour available to a lawyer in Ontario. The Medal was awarded for outstanding service within the profession in accordance with the highest ideals of the profession. She was also awarded the Ontario Psychiatric Association's Mental Health Advocate of the Year Award. About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
Chapters:00:00 Introduction to Health Equity00:52 Barriers Faced by People with Disabilities06:07 The Canada Excellence Research Chair in Health Equity07:30 Addressing Health Inequities Highlighted by COVID-1909:39 Tackling Health Equity in the Canadian Healthcare System11:02 Understanding Sustainable Community Well-being15:29 Taking a Critical Disability Lens in Healthcare16:28 The Right to Health and Affirmation of People with Disabilities22:19 Conclusion and Future Conversations About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
Joeita speaks with Dominic Roberts, author of a new book of poetry "Blinded by the Write: Poems from a Twisted Mind" in which he discusses his vision loss journey.Highlights:The Emotional Landscape of Blindness - Opening Remarks (00:00)Introduction – The Pulse Home Studio (01:14)Introducing Dominic Roberts, Poet and Author of “Blinded by the Write: Poems from a Twisted Mind” (4:22)Writing Process (06:30)Fantasy Side (6:58)Making Peace with Vision Loss through Poetry (08:04)“Eyes Tell Lies” (09:23)Prominence of Nature in Poetic and Vision Loss Journey's (13:03)Other People's Poetry (14:15)From a Poem to a Book (14:46)Nature's Own Disco (15:32)Paradise Lost, Inspiration & the Milking Process (16:53)Deciding to Write & Publish a Book (18:09)“Blind is Beautiful” (20:40)Is Blindness Something to be Overcome? (24:16)Find More from Dominic Roberts (25:00)Show Close (26:11)Links:Blinded by the Write: Poems from a Twisted Mind (Amazon Canada, GoodReads) About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
Joeita speaks to Carli Friedman of the University of Washington about disability and intimacy. Highlights:The Value of Intimate Relationships - Opening Remarks (00:00)Introducing Carli Friedman, Director of research for the Council on Quality and Leadership (01:09)Studying Disability & Intimacy (02:17)Defining Intimacy (03:26)Benefits of Having Intimate Relationships (04:01)Barriers to Close Relationships (05:30)Impact of Housing Situation (06:11)Access to Privacy (07:39)Stigma Around Inter-Abled Relationships (08:40)Understanding Access-Needs (10:29)Common Experiences Versus Shared Interests (11:35)Social Media and Intimate Relationships (13:10)Attitudinal & Other Barriers (15:06)Facilitators & Gatekeepers (16:03)How to Form Intimate Relationships (18:56)Kinship, Belonging & Well-Being (20:15)Independence Versus Interdependence (21:06)Show Close (23:11)Guest Bio:Carli Friedman is the Director of Research for CQL | The Council on Quality and Leadership. CQL is an international not-for-profit organization that is dedicated to the definition, measurement, and improvement of personal quality of life, through a world of dignity, opportunity, and community for all people with disabilities. Carli's research at CQL works to promote meaningful community participation and empowerment of people with disabilities by exploring the impact policy, service systems, and providers can have on quality enhancement and quality of life. Carli, who has a Doctorate in Disability Studies, is the author of over 230 journal articles, book chapters, research briefs, and reports, focusing on ableism, community integration of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, Medicaid, and social determinants of health.Article: AAIDD Honors CQL's Carli Friedman, PhD, With The 2022 Research Award About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
Joeita speaks to Andrew Leland about his book "The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight"Highlights:“What is Blindness?” - Opening Remarks (00:00)Introducing Andrew Leland, Author of “The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight” (01:14)About H.G. Wells' “The Country of the Blind” Short Story (01:57)Memoir Writing Process (04:12)Curiosity in Exploring Vision Loss (06:30)Balancing Intellectualizing Blindness & the Emotional Reality of Blind People (09:30)Deciding Where to Draw the Line (12:16)Blindness & the Male Gaze (15:05)Culture of Blindness (17:38)Surprises, Revelations & Conclusions (20:57)Lingering Questions & Tensions (23:31)Show Close (26:02)Guest Bio: Andrew Leland's writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, McSweeney's Quarterly, and The San Francisco Chronicle, among other outlets. From 2013-2019, he hosted and produced The Organist, an arts and culture podcast, for KCRW; he has also produced pieces for Radiolab and 99 Percent Invisible. He has been an editor at The Believer since 2003. He lives in western Massachusetts with his wife and son.About The Country of the BlindNamed one of the best books of the year by: THE NEW YORKER • THE WASHINGTON POST • THE ATLANTIC • NPR • PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • LITHUBA witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author's transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn about blindness as a rich culture all its own“After reading Andrew Leland's memoir, The Country of the Blind, you will look at the English language differently . . . Leland rigorously explores the disability's most troubling corners . . . A wonderful cross-disciplinary wander.” —The New York Times Book ReviewWe meet Andrew Leland as he's suspended in the liminal state of the soon-to-be blind: he's midway through his life with retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that ushers those who live with it from sightedness to blindness over years, even decades. He grew up with full vision, but starting in his teenage years, his sight began to degrade from the outside in, such that he now sees the world as if through a narrow tube. Soon—but without knowing exactly when—he will likely have no vision left.Full of apprehension but also dogged curiosity, Leland embarks on a sweeping exploration of the state of being that awaits him: not only the physical experience of blindness but also its language, politics, and customs. He negotiates his changing relationships with his wife and son, and with his own sense of self, as he moves from his mainstream, “typical” life to one with a disability. Part memoir, part historical and cultural investigation, The Country of the Blind represents Leland's determination not to merely survive this transition but to grow from it—to seek out and revel in that which makes blindness enlightening.Thought-provoking and brimming with warmth and humor, The Country of the Blind is a deeply personal and intellectually exhilarating tour of a way of being that most of us have never paused to consider—and from which we have much to learn.Related Links:NPR Article - As a writer slowly loses his sight, he embraces other kinds of perceptionBlindness isn't a tragic binary — it's a rich spectrum (Ted Talk, July 2023)Andrew Leland Website: https://www.andrewleland.org/The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight (Wikipedia) About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights.Find Joeita on X / Twitter: @JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
Joeita discusses emergency preparedness for people with disabilities with Kaitlynne Lowe, Policy Researcher at MacEachen Institute for Public Policy at Dalhousie University. From Emergency Supply Kits and Vulnerable Person's Registries to accessibility barriers in transportation and housing, people with disabilities are often especially vulnerable during a crisis, disaster, or emergency.Highlights:“Vulnerable in an Emergency Situation” - Opening Clip (00:00)Disability & Emergency Preparedness - Opening Remarks (00:34)Introducing Kaitlynne Lowe (01:47)Public Safety for People with Disabilities (02:15)Emergency Response Capacity Across Canada (03:17)How are People with Disabilities Vulnerable During a Crisis? (05:41)Effective Communication During an Emergency (07:36)Accounting for Local Nuance in Emergency Planning (09:46)Accessibility Barriers in Transportation & Housing (12:30)Vulnerable Person's Registry (16:23)Emergency Supply Kits (19:25)Rethinking What Constitutes an “Emergency” (22:49)The State of Emergency Preparedness for Canadians with Disabilities (24:57)Show Close (27:27)Guest Bio:Kaitlynne Lowe is a Policy Researcher at the MacEachen Institute for Public Policy at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Kaitlynne is a Dalhousie MPA graduate, hopeful life-changer, book lover, theatre-goer, adventurer, and cat mom.Follow Kaitlynne Lowe on X/Twitter: @KatieALowe About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights.Find Joeita on X / Twitter: @JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
In the third of three episodes on Accessible Fashion, Joeita speaks to Alexa Jonovavic, founder of Aille Design, a brand featuring clothing with Braille beadwork. Alexa dives into her collaborative process with members of the blind and partially sighted community. Plus, a fascinating exploration of the relationship blind women have with colour. Highlights:“So Much More Than Clothing” - Opening Clip (00:00)“Accessible Fashion as a Social Good” - Opening Remarks (00:28)Introducing Alexa Jovanovic of Aille Design (01:40)Discovering Love of Fashion & Design (02:36)Functionality Versus Aesthetics (04:00)Caring for Braille Beadwork Clothing (6:06)Learning & Writing Braille (7:27)Impact of Braille Beadwork Messages (9:12)Establishing Your Fashion Brand (11:18)Why Beads for Braille? (13:25)Formal and Professional Beaded Attire (15:02)Custom & Bespoke Braille Beadwork (19:54)Relationship Between Colour & Blindness (21:25)Influencing the Broader Industry (24:12)Personal Journey Through Accessible Fashion Work (26:11)Show Close (29:51)Aille Design on AMI-tv's Fashion DisGuest Bio: Now known as "The Braille Fashion Designer," Alexa Jovanovic first began creating Braille fashion as a research project in university where she was taught the importance of disrupting fashion industry norms through innovative design thinking and the co-design process.Alexa built strong relationships with local blind and partially sighted individuals and together they discussed everything from shopping, clothing trends, and closet organization, to society's misconceptions of what it means to “look and feel” blind.About Aille Design - https://ailledesign.com/Our brand name comes from the French verb Aller which means "to go" or "to move forward". We believe inclusivity is the direction the fashion industry needs to move forward in and we're ready to help lead the change!The pronunciation of our name alludes to the personal "I" since our products help to empower and increase independence, as well as the physical "eye" since braille provides a source of vision and understanding.Did you know? The two dots in our logo are the braille character for the letter "i". It represents the importance of braille while helping you remember the pronunciation of Aille.We make clothing and accessories with fully legible braille that are designed alongside the blind and visually impaired community.Use the braille to describe the physical garment, choose one of our value based phrases, or customize the braille to say anything you want! The tactile braille beadwork is the focal point of each design. It generates conversation about accessibility and inclusion and makes for an incredibly unique gift. 5% of all t-shirt sales are donated to organizations for the visually impaired. About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights.Find Joeita on X / Twitter: @JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
In the second of three episodes on Accessible Fashion, Joeita speaks to Wendy Wong, founder of June Adaptive on her creative choice and journey. Wendy discusses the practicalities of getting her business off the ground, including obtaining feedback from People with Disabilities. Highlights:“Adaptive Clothing for People of All Abilities” – Opening Clip (00:00)“You Are What You Wear” - Opening Remarks (04:46)Introducing Wendy Wong, Creator of June Adaptive (01:52)Inspiration from Aunt June (02:55)All About Aunt June (04:43)Challenges in Catering to a Niche Community (05:25)Making JuneAdaptive.com Accessible (06:57)Adapted Clothing Designs: Zipper Sneakers (08:09)Grip Socks (08:59)Magnetic Button-Down Shirt (10:25)Open-Back Tops (11:48)Denim Jeans with toggles, loops, thigh pockets, velcro ankle-openings (12:58)Process of Creating Adapted Clothing (14:54)Ensuring Quality (15:42)Collaborating with Suppliers (16:30)Evolution of Adaptive Fashion (17:53)Universal Design in Clothing (19:19)Affordable & Accessible Fashion (21:02)Wardrobe Essentials (23:46)Adaptive Fashion Goals (25:03)Show Close (26:02)About June Adaptive: From people frustrated by inaccessible buttons and zippers to people recovering from medical treatments, people living with mobility challenges or disabilities can find fashion solutions at June Adaptive.We found pieces that helped people in our lives and we hope we can help you too.“The Start of June Adaptive”June was more than just a “cool” aunt to our founder Wendy; she was a sister, friend, and a hard-working medical professional who adored her cocker spaniel. Following an accident later in life, June had lost mobility in her arms and legs.With a fashion background, Wendy wanted to help June maintain her independence and dignity by finding clothing that was beautiful yet functional. To Wendy's surprise, it was nearly impossible to find adaptive pieces that fit into June's new everyday life.As life went on, Wendy had found that additional family members had developed mobility challenges, sharing related issues in finding accessible fashion.After discovering the adaptive fashion space, Wendy wanted to bring back the joy of fashion to people experiencing similar struggles. June Adaptive was created out of an inspiration to provide an inclusive shopping experience for different levels of ability.Our goal is to create a universally designed experience for more people to shop. We want to make adaptive fashion more accessible because everyone should be able to look good.Links Toronto Star - These adaptive fashion designers are making personal style more accessible - Fashion Magazine - Adaptive Fashion Brands You Should Know AboutSeneca Journalism -Making Fashion Fit for EveryoneAbout The Pulse On The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada. Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on Twitter: @JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/recent_ep... About AMI AMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.ca Connect on Twitter @AccessibleMedia On Instagram @accessiblemediainc On Facebook at @AccessibleMediaInc On TikTok @accessiblemediainc Email feedback@ami.ca About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights.Find Joeita on X / Twitter: @JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
In the first of three episodes on Accessible Fashion, Joeita speaks to Izzy Camilleri, the founder of IZ Adaptive, a clothing brand that provides accessible fashions for people with disabilities. We discuss her foray into inclusive fashion and design at a time when no one was talking about it. She discusses how her desire to create clothes that are functional, as well as beautiful, changed the course of her life while conferring dignity to people with disabilities.Highlights:Opening Clip – Izzy on Adaptive Clothing (00:00)Opening Remarks – Accessible Fashion as Function (00:39)Accessible Fashion Series Overview (01:42)Introducing Izzy Camilleri & IZ Adaptive (03:32)A Life-Changing Phone Call (04:11)Initial Challenges Designing Clothes for a Wheelchair User (06:30)Designing for People Who Need Help Dressing and Those Who Dress Themselves Independently (08:19)Disability Inclusive Features of Adapted Clothing (09:58)Inspiration for Getting into Fashion Design (11:11)Reaction of Colleagues to Izzy's Shift into Adapted Clothing (11:46)The Business Side of Adaptive Clothing (13:58)Consulting with Large Labels on Accessible Design (14:58)Toronto as Accessible Fashion Hotbed (16:11)Creativity in Adaptive Clothing (17:01)Wardrobe Essentials (18:53)Feedback on IZ Adaptive (19:40)What's Next for IZ Adaptive? (21:44)Show Close (22:38)Guest Bio: Izzy Camilleri is one of Canada's leading and most celebrated fashion designers, and a pioneer in adaptive clothing. Izzy first ventured into the world of accessible clothing after initially doing custom work for a wheelchair user in 2004. It opened her eyes to the huge necessity for this type of clothing in the world.In 2022, Izzy received 2 awards for her adaptive line. She won the Innovation Award from the Women's Empowerment Awards and the Fashion Impact Award from the CAFA Awards. In 2006, she received CAFA's Womenswear Designer of the Year Award. Her adaptive line has been featured in the Royal Ontario Museum. For more than 39 years, she has designed custom clothing for an international clientele, crafted gorgeous collections featured in fashion magazines from Vogue to InStyle, and dressed celebrities like Daniel Radcliffe, Mark Wahlberg, Meryl Streep, Angelina Jolie and David Bowie. Since 2009, Izzy has focused on inclusive fashion through her brand IZ Adaptive, with the mission to make great looking and well-fitting clothes accessible to everyone. To learn more about Izzy, visit www.izzycamilleri.com.See more of Izzy Camilleri on AMI-tv's Fashion Dis!Each episode of Fashion Dis celebrates the head-to-toe overhaul of a frustrated style seeker discouraged by an industry that lacks adaptive options. The Story of IZ Adaptive IZ Adaptive was launched in 2009 after fashion designer Izzy Camilleri spent a few years creating custom clothing for a client who was a wheelchair user living with paralysis. This experience opened her eyes to the clothing challenges and limitations people face while living with a physical disability.After years of creating these first custom pieces, Izzy realized that if her client had all these obstacles around clothing, there must be many others with the same issues. Izzy decided to hold a focus group meeting where other voices were heard around the challenges, likes and dislikes around everyday clothing while living with a physical disability. With listening and learning, the seeds of creating a line of adaptive clothing were being planted. After doing online research of the market, she saw that there was very little out there designed specifically for this demographic of people. Most of what was available was for the elderly or for people living in long term care facilities. Clothing that was very dated in both design and fabric choice. Seeing this huge void in the market, Izzy saw this as an opportunity to create a line of clothes for people living with a disability, starting with modern wardrobe basics. In June of 2009 IZ Adaptive was born.Izzy Camilleri was hailed a trail blazer pioneering the category of adaptive clothing in the form of fashionable, functional pieces. Her new and innovative work was called revolutionary. The path since that time has been long and hard, but Izzy kept it on life support, knowing the importance of what she was creating and how many lives IZ Adaptive positively affected. At the beginning of the pandemic, Izzy also created the first ‘Seamless Back Pant' which helps to reduce the risk of life threatening pressure sores. This patented technology is the most important work Izzy has done throughout her long career. These pants have become an important staple in many of IZ Adaptives customer's wardrobes.Today, Izzy is seen as the Thought Leader in this space. IZ Adaptive has a global reach with its online store. Major media outlets have featured IZ, and museums have also displayed this work. Universities and colleges reach out as well to learn about this new and exciting category of clothing for their studies.IZ Adaptive continues to push boundaries, lead in innovation and is looking to the future with plans of big growth. About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights.Find Joeita on X / Twitter: @JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
This week, Joeita speaks to Jacqueline Alnes, author of The Fruit Cure: the Story of Extreme Wellness Turned Sour - "an unforgettable deep dive into the world of fruitarianism".Highlights:Excerpt from “The Fruit Cure” by Jacqueline Alnes (00:00)Opening Remarks “Disability & Wellness Culture” (00:43)Jacqueline Alnes Introduction (01:58)About her book “the Fruit Cure” (02:24)Combining an Autobiography with a History of Wellness Movements (03:22)Jacqueline's Experience with the Medical Establishment (05:35)The Rise of Wellness Influencers (08:30)Racist & Puritanical Origins of Thinness (11:04)Desperate Need for Cures & Answers (13:25)Difference Between Cures & Healing (16:14)Are Social Media Platforms Responsible for Wellness Misinformation? (18:09)Navigating Contradictory Wellness Trends (21:00)Jacqueline Reads from “the Fruit Cure” (24:38)Where to find “the Fruit Cure” (26:18)Show Close (27:10)Guest Bio: Jacqueline Alnes has published essays in The New York Times, Guernica, The Boston Globe, Women's Running, Iron Horse Literary Review, and elsewhere, and her interviews with writers can be found in Longreads, The Rumpus, and, more regularly, Electric Literature, where she serves as a contributing writer. A series of her paintings featuring inspiring athletes was featured on NBC during the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games and in Runner's World. Currently an Assistant Professor of English at West Chester University, Alnes earned her MFA from Portland State University and her PhD from Oklahoma State University.Alnes's first book, The Fruit Cure: The Story of Extreme Wellness Turned Sour details how mysterious neurological symptoms derailed her career as a Division I runner and left her desperate for answers. She found hope in an unlikely place: a thriving, online community of fruit-eaters. In The Fruit Cure, Jacqueline Alnes takes readers on a spellbinding and unforgettable journey through the world of fruitarianism, interweaving her own powerful narrative with the popularity and problematic history of fruit-based, raw food lifestyles. About The Fruit Cure“A deeply compelling read … Spellbinding ….” – BookPage“Her journey from desperation to self-acceptance is moving and well rendered. In the crowded medical memoir field, this stands out.” — Publishers WeeklyA powerful critique of the failures in our healthcare system and an inquiry into the sinister strains of wellness culture that prey on people's vulnerabilities through schemes, scams, and diets.Jacqueline Alnes was a Division One runner during her freshman year of college, but her season was cut short by a series of inexplicable neurological symptoms. What started with a cough, escalated to Alnes collapsing on the track and experiencing months of unremembered episodes that stole her ability to walk and speak. Two years after quitting the team to heal, Alnes's symptoms returned with a severity that left her using a wheelchair for a period of months. She was admitted to an epilepsy center but doctors could not figure out the root cause of her symptoms. Desperate for answers, she turned to an online community centered around a strict, all-fruit diet which its adherents claimed could cure conditions like depression, eating disorders, addiction, anxiety, and vision problems. Alnes wasn't alone. From all over the world, people in pain, doubted or dismissed by medical authorities, or seeking a miracle diet that would relieve them of white, Western expectations placed on their figures, turned to fruit in hopes of releasing themselves from the perceived failings of their bodies.In The Fruit Cure, Jacqueline Alnes takes readers on a spellbinding and unforgettable journey through the world of fruitarianism, interweaving her own powerful narrative with the popularity and problematic history of fruit-based, raw food lifestyles. For readers plagued by mysterious symptoms, inundated by messages from media about how to attain “the perfect body,” or caught in the grips of a fast-paced culture of capitalism, The Fruit Cure offers a powerful critique of the failures of our healthcare system and an inquiry into the sinister strains of wellness culture that prey on people's vulnerabilities through schemes, scams, and diets masquerading as hope.About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights.Find Joeita on Twitter: @JoeitaGuptaThe Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/recent_episodesAbout AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal.Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
We continue our annual Christmas story tradition with O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi, read by Andy Lehrer."The Gift of the Magi" is a short story by O. Henry first published in the New York Sunday World on December 10, 1905. Highlights:“Holiday Tradition” - Opening Remarks (00:00)Introducing Andy Lehrer (01:02)About “Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry (02:19)“Gift of the Magi” read by Andy Lehrer (3:48)Remarks on “Gift of the Magi” & Gift Giving (15:02)Sacrifice, Stress and Showing Appreciation (16:36)Most Memorable Gifts (21:59)Show Close (23:58)About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights.Find Joeita on Twitter: @JoeitaGuptaThe Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/recent_episodesAbout AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
Joeita speaks with Rod Michalko about his book "Letters with Smokie" discussing blindness and what it can reveal about the relationship between humans and animals. About “Letters with Smokie” From University of Manitoba Press: Leave it to a dog to put the “human” back in “humanities”In September 2020, Rod Michalko wrote to friend and colleague Dan Goodley, congratulating him on the release of his latest book, Disability and Other Human Questions. Joking that his late guide dog, Smokie, had taken offense to the suggestion that disability was purely a human question, Michalko shared a few thoughts on behalf of his dog. When Goodley wrote back—to Smokie—so began an epistolic exchange that would continue for the next seven months.As the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world and the realities of lockdown-imposed isolation set in, the Smokie letters provided the friends a space in which to come together in a lively exploration of human-animal relationships and to interrogate disability as disruption, disturbance, and art. Just as he did in life, Smokie guides. In these pages, he offers wisdom about the world, love, friendship, and even The Beatles. His canine observations of human experience provide an avenue into some of the ways blindness might be reconceptualized and “befriended.”Uninhibited by the trappings of traditional academic inquiry, Michalko and Goodley are unleashed, free to wander, to wonder, and to provoke within the bonds of trust and respect. Funny and thoughtful, the result is a refreshing exploration and re-evaluation of learned cultural misunderstandings of disability.Highlights:Opening Remarks on Guide Dogs (00:00)Introducing Rod Michalko (01:03)Who is Smokie and Why is Smokie Writing Letters? (01:38)How Did this Correspondence Between Friends Evolve into a Book? (03:00)Was it Challenging to Adopt Smokie's Perspective? (04:06)How Can Animals Deepen Our Understanding of Blindness and Disability? (05:06)Moving Towards a Different Concept of Blindness (07:17)First Day Out with a Guide Dog (08:55)Appreciating the Blurriness of Life (10:37)Guide Dogs as Experts on Blindness (12:58)Shifting One's Vantage Point (14:50)Rethinking Human-Animal Relationships (16:48)How Does Journeying with a Guide Dog Change Your Perspective on the Design of Physical Spaces? (18:51)Disability and Disrupting Normalcy? (21:07)Why is the Theme of Community So Important? (23:11)The Personal Impact of Revisiting Guide Dog Relationship (24:53)More Letters with Smokie? (26:47)Show Close (27:32)Guest Bio: Rod Michalko is a retired professor from the University of Toronto where he taught disability studies. His current writing, both fiction and non-fiction, stems from his experience of blindness.“Letters with Smokie” was co-written by Dan Goodley, Professor of Disability Studies and Education at the University of Sheffield. His Previous books include Disability and Other Human Questions (Emerald, 2020) and Disability Studies (second edition, Sage, 2016).LinksLearn more about “Letters with Smokie” on AMI Audiobook Review"Letters with Smokie" Website About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights.Find Joeita on Twitter: @JoeitaGuptaThe Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/recent_ep...About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal.Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
Joeita speaks about "Affective Ablenationalism" with Anastasia Todd from the University of Kentucky.SUMMARYAn in-depth conversation about disability and ablenationalism, exploring how disabled individuals are often coded as able-bodied in the imagined community of the nation. Using the story of Trevor Maroshek, a former Navy SEAL, and his service dog, Chopper as a case study, we examine the concept of service dogs as a technology of rehabilitation, allowing disabled individuals to fit into the able-bodied norm and the white American nuclear family, the veneration of Chopper as a national hero and the role of military dogs in securing the nation state. Looking at the real-world implications such as confusion about the rights of people with service dogs and the discrimination they face.Guest Bio: Anastasia Todd is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Kentucky. Broadly, her research investigates the intersections of disability and girlhood from a feminist disability studies perspective. Her forthcoming book, Cripping Girlhood (winner of the 2022 Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities), is interested in what happens and what it means when certain disabled girl subjects gain cultural recognition and visibility as “American girls, too,” to use the words of Melissa Shang, who in 2014 created a viral Change.org petition imploring American Girl to create a disabled doll of the year. The book explores the promise and peril of this newfound cultural visibility for select disabled girls. In examining representations and self-representations of disabled girls and girlhoods across the mediascape at the beginning of the twenty-first century, spanning HBO documentaries to TikTok, Cripping Girlhood uncovers the variegated ways the figure of the disabled girl is imbued with meaning and mobilized as a spectacular representational symbol. Cripping Girlhood also explores how disabled girls, more than symbolic figures to be used in others' narratives, circulate their own capacious re-envisioning of what it means to be a disabled girl. The book uncovers the cultural and political work that disabled girls' self-representational practices perform, from cultivating disability community through generating intimacy online, to affirming the value of care labor and interdependence across the species barrier.Highlights:Show Open (00:00)Introducing Anastasia Todd (01:59) What is Ablenationalism? (02:27)History of Reliance on Service Dogs (07:00)Technology of Rehabilitation (08:36)How does the story of Chopper Perpetuate the Nation State? (10:53)The State of Veteran Mental Health and Wellbeing (16:40)Reciprocity in Service Dog Relationships (19:23)Service Dogs as Saviors (23:10) Show Close (28:13)Links:Pre-order Cripping Girlhood (University of Michigan Press, 2024)Her new research project, in collaboration with Heather Switzer (WGS, Arizona State University) explores the intersection of invisible disability and young womanhood through creating and analyzing an archive of invisible disability narratives. As a cripistemological intervention, the project seeks to expand disability studies by taking seriously bodyminds that experience ableism yet have an uneasy and tenuous relationship with disability as it has been conventionally defined—that is, as physical, unchanging, and visible. Anastasia Todd. 2023. “Cripping Visibility: Re-presenting Disabled Girls and Girlhoods.” NEOS. 15(1).Anastasia Todd. 2023. “Affective Ablenationalisms and Interspecies Entanglements.” Disability Studies Quarterly. 42(3).About The Pulse:On The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights.Find Joeita on Twitter: @JoeitaGuptaThe Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/recent_episodesLearn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
Joeita speaks to Paralympic Cross-Country Skiier and gold medalist Natalie Wilkie. This is the third of a three part series profiling the 2023 inductees to the Canada Disability Hall of Fame.SynopsisThis episode of The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta and guest, King Clancy Award winner and Paralympic cross-country skier, Natalie Wilkie discuss parasport and determination, highlighting the achievements of Paralympic athletes. The perception of people with disabilities as objects of pity has been shattered by the competitiveness and sportsmanship displayed in Paralympic games. Despite facing a life-altering accident, Wilkie returned to skiing just two weeks later and went on to win gold, silver, and bronze medals at the 2018 Paralympic Games. The interview explores Wilkie's journey, including her introduction to the parasport and the challenges and strategies involved in cross-country skiing. Additionally, Wilkie shares her passion for painting, photography, and training horses. Episode Highlights:What It Means to Be The Recipient of the King Clancy Award (2:50)How Natalie Got Her Start in Cross Country Skiing (3:46)Participating in the Paralympic Games (8:39)The Differences Between Para-Cross-Country Skiing & Able-Bodied Skiing (9:40)The Draw of Competition (12:18)Achieving Positive Work-Life Balance (14:03)The Impact of Natalie's Legacy on People with Disabilities (20:17)Life Aspirations Going Forward (22:24)AboutNatalie Wilkie burst onto the international scene at the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games. At age 17, she was the youngest member of the Canadian team. In South Korea, Wilkie prevailed over her more experienced rivals to take a much-celebrated gold in the women's middle distance standing. She followed that up with bronze in the sprint and silver in the mixed relay. As a result, she received the Canadian Paralympic Sport Award for Best Paralympic Debut by a Female Athlete. Wilkie lost four fingers on her left hand in an accident during woodwork class at school in 2016.Team Canada Profile LinkAbout The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights.Find Joeita on Twitter: @JoeitaGuptaThe Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/recent_episodesAbout AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal.Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
For the past 44 years percussionist/producer / composer Zimbel has led the Juno Award-winning nine-piece global / jazz collective Manteca which he cofounded with bassist Henry Heillig in 1979. The group has recorded 14 full-length CD's, toured the world and shared stages with Miles Davis, Weather Report, Van Morrison, Ella Fitzgerald and become one of Canada top selling domestic jazz artists. Manteca's most recent CD “The Offspring Project” was released globally on September 15, 2023. Zimbel has been professional percussionist since 1973 and has recorded more than 50 albums with artists such as Daniel Lanois, Cano, Ellen McIlwaine, Lorraine Segato, Lennie Gallant, Phil Dwyer, Lyne Tremblay, West Trainz, Nancy White etc. He has performed live with Leonard Cohen, Robert Paquette, France D'amour, Kevin Parent, Florence K, Ritchie Cole and many others. He has also been a music and broadcast producer and artistic director with credits that include The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction of Neil Young, Bruce Cockburn, Stephan Venne and Beau Dommage in 2017 at Massey Hall, The Pan Am Games opening in Toronto with Cirque du Soleil for CBC, Canada Day on Parliament Hill, 2001, 2005, 2011, Canada's Cultural program at Expo 2005 in Japan and Dubai 2020 and album productions for Lyne Tremblay, Lorraine Segato, Phil Dwyer, Manteca, American Dumpster, Lennie Gallant and others. Manteca's archives have been collected by the National Library of Canada since 1993. In addition to Zimbel's work as a musician, he is a published writer, broadcaster, filmmaker and creator of original radio and television programs. In the fall of 2018 he created, wrote and hosted the 7 hour limited series for Jazz FM in Toronto called “Road Stories”. Matt has also co-created and hosted numerous prime-time national radio and television programs for CBC including (Café au Lait 93 & Rad Radio 95) and was awarded the Toronto ACTRA Award for best radio host in 1986 for his CKLN show “Breakfast of Champions”. In November of 2020 he launched the original podcast “Yes We Canada” which completed its' first 26 episode season and is currently producing season two. Zimbel has hosted feature interviews with Leonard Cohen, Robbie Robertson, Buffy St. Marie, Emmy Lou Harris, Shirley Temple Black, k.d. Lang, Steve Allan, Etta James and author's Ann Rice and James Michener among many others. He has written, directed and produced numerous documentaries, the most recent of which was the 2015 feature documentary “Zimbelism” on his father, the renowned photographer George Zimbel, which he co-directed with Jean Francois Gratton and which appeared in festivals all over the world including Beijing, Shanghai, London, Barcelona, Los Angeles, Salem and Toronto's Hot Docs where it was a finalist for the audience award. If you enjoyed this episode please make sure to subscribe, follow, rate, and/or review this podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, ect. Connect with us on all social media platforms and at www.improvexchange.com
In this 1252nd episode of Toronto Mike'd, Mike chats with Kurt Swinghammer about his art, his music, his name, working with MuchMusic, Maestro Fresh Wes, CKLN, CFNY, The Shuffle Demons, Ron Sexsmith, Sam the Record Man, Buffy, Bruce, and so much more. Toronto Mike'd is proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, Palma Pasta, the Yes We Are Open podcast from Moneris, The Moment Lab, Ridley Funeral Home and Electronic Products Recycling Association.
Scarborough rap superstar Choclair talks about coming up together with Jully Black, Kardinal Offishall and Saukrates, morphing from ‘Junior' to ‘Choclair' [and how he got that name], literally getting called out of the classroom to rep his high school in rap battles, his appreciation for MuchMusic's Michael Williams & Master T, the bump from the Little X-directed ‘Let's Ride' video, using paper-scissors-rock to determine his role in the recording of ‘Northern Touch,' growing up listening to the ‘godfather of Toronto hip-hop' DJ Ron Nelson on CKLN 88.1, and touring tales with Snoop Dogg, Mix Master Mike & Beastie Boys, Classified, Maestro Fresh Wes, Redman and Method Man! TORONTO LEGENDS is hosted by Andrew Applebaum. All episodes available at www.podpage.com/toronto-legends/episodes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Disclaimer Most of these clips and the sounds of this video will not be a part of episode one's 'In The Beginning.' S/O to Solitair for the first voice you hear! Speakers in order: Oliver Walters: Former host for Much Music's Rapcity and journalist Adrien King AKA DJ X: Host of CKLN's The Power Move, DJ, former radio personality at Flow 93.5 and entrepreneur DJ Mastermind: Host for CHRY's Mastermind's Street Jam, former radio personality and assistant program director at Flow 93.5, host for Toronto Takeover at VIBE105 Solitair: Music Producer, Writer, Rapper/ MC, radio host at VIBE105, and entrepreneur Saukrates: Rapper/MC, Music Producer, Writer, and Singer DJ Kemo: Member of Rasclaz, DJ and producer Please tune into episode one, this Saturday September 3rd at 9PM EST, where we talk about the beginning of hip-hop in Canada and who inspired these legends. Continue to subscribe and follow @hhfromthenorth for more.
In 1991, Toronto artist Sheila Gregory read that Christo was spending over $20 million to bring to life his latest Umbrellas project, and she wanted to ask him about it. Sheila flew to New York and spoke with Christo for over an hour. The interview was played in 4 parts on CKLN radio's Art on Air. For the next 30 years, it has lived in a drawer on cassette tape. Recently, Sheila came across it while organizing boxes of old photos. Today, The Agency speaks with Sheila Gregory about her interview with Christo, followed by the entire Christo interview. Please join us. If you would like to send us your thoughts on this episode or anything on The Agency, email: theagency.podcast@gmail.com
On today's show I interview the triple O.G. DJ X one of the most influential DJs in Toronto. We discuss the early beginnings of the Power Move radio show on CKLN 88.1 and his transition from college radio to commercial Radio. We also got to discuss his drive and the future for him. If you want to check out the video version of this interview it will be posted on my YouTube channel at the end of the week. Thank you for listening and sharing. DON'T FORGET TO RATE & REVIEW THE PODCAST! social media: ★ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DJKeo_ ★ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/djkeo_ ★ Minds: https://www.minds.com/DJKeo
Mike chats with Dani Elwell about her years at CKLN and CKFM, her on-air resignation at CFNY, her time at JAZZ.FM91 and sad departure from the station and what's next.
Mike chats with Ralph Benmergui about his years at CKLN, CBC Radio, hosting Midday and Friday Night with Ralph Benmergui! on CBC Television, doing mornings at JAZZ FM and his spirituality.
Mike chats with DJ Ron Nelson about his Fantastic Voyage show on CKLN, bringing the first hip-hop shows to Canada, the emergence of Maestro Fresh-Wes and Michie Mee, recording the Dream Warriors album in his home studio, Reggaemania and what he thinks of Drake.
If you've ever referred to Toronto as “Tdot,” a term coined by K4ce, a local hip hop legend or by its more recent name, “The 6ix” influenced largely by the OVO team and rapper Drake's recent album, ‘Views from the 6,” then you are familiar with the far reaching influence of Canadian Hip Hop. Recognizing the potential for hip hop to transcend intergenerational barriers, Dr. Mark Campbell, Ontario Certified school teacher and Professor at Ryerson University, and his team, created the Northside Hip Hop Archive (NSHH) and a series of accompanying archival exhibits to re-engage students at all grade levels and preserve an integral piece of Canadian history. The NSHH is intended to be a tool to produce engaging, new curriculum content for school boards across Canada. Dr. Campbell currently teaches two inclusive courses on Race & Racism in Popular Culture from Antiblackness to Intersectionality and Sonic Innovations in Black Musics: From Dubplates to Controllerism at Ryerson RTA. “Uncovering hip hop histories in Canada are essential work if we are to imagine an inclusive, multicultural and diverse country. Without access to the successes, innovations and creativity of previous generations, we cannot provide in the classroom a solid context the next generation to strive towards excellence,” says Dr. Campbell. Since the archive launched in 2010, there have been multiple archival exhibits held to raise public awareness. On March 4th 2010, NSHH held its first exhibit, the T-Dot Pioneers Exhibition in Toronto. A year later, CBC and NSHH joined forces to launch “The Hip Hop Summit,” a week-long celebration of Canadian hip hop. In November of 2016, NSHH Archive in association with the Royal Ontario Museum, Ryerson University and The Masterplan Show at CIUT 89.5fm launched its first ever Archive Fellows honouring the lifetime achievements of Toronto's DJ Ron Nelson from CKLN's Fantastic Voyage Show (1983-1990) and the visual art of Hamilton's Leon ‘Eklipz' Robinson. Also in 2016, the NSHH started the “I Was There” project, a community activation project honouring the work of various hip hop culture pioneers in five cities across Canada which started in 2016 and is continuing into 2017. “The I Was There project is about acknowledging the Architects of hip hop communities in several Canadian cities as well as about creating public awareness and appreciation about hip hop's legacy in our country,” says Dr. Campbell. The “I Was There” project celebrates the accomplishments of little known hip hop legends in Canada, adding personalized archival collections and narration to the existing archival content on www.nshharchive.ca. This year's exhibits will be held in Montreal, Saskatoon, Hamilton, Toronto and Regina. Over the years, participants have included legendary Canadian names in hip hop such as: Dalton Higgins, Citizen Kane, Ghetto Concept, Michie Mee, Kardi, K'naan, Dream Warriers, Saukrates, Shad, DJ Ron Nelson, Leon' Eklipz' Robinson, DJ Kool Herc and more. Recently, Mr. Campbell was on our show talking about the Northside Hip Hop Archives. During our conversation, Mr. Campbell talked about: – Some of his early hip hop memories – The story behind his hip hop show that he started in the 1990's at eighteen years old for seventeen years – How did Northside Hip Hop Archives start – Some of the stories and people that are featured via Northside Hip Hop Archives – How has the Toronto hip hop scene has changed – The future of the Northside Hip Hop Archives – The state of Canadian Hip Hop – What is on the website You can contact Mr. Campbell via: North Side Hip Hop NorthSide Hip Hop Archive – Twitter NorthSide Hip Hop Archive – Facebook Mark Campbell Mark Campbell – Twitter Email Please feel free to email us at dr.vibe@thedrvibeshow.com Please feel free to “Like” the “The Dr. Vibe Show” Facebook fan page at “The Dr. Vibe Show” Facebook Fan Page Visit our website at http://www.thedrvibeshow.com/ God bless, peace, be well and keep the faith, Dr. Vibe
Today we will be talking to community media activist Rebecca Granovsky-Larsen and artist/community organizer Rosina Kazi from the band LAL. As part of CKLN's annual FundFest, this show focuses on the importance of community radio and the need to support through listening and by making donations. You can still pledge your support for community-controlled radio by calling: 416-595-1478.
Cutting Through the Matrix with Alan Watt Podcast (.xml Format)
A special interview for CKLN Radio with Alan Watt from CuttingThroughTheMatrix.com about music and the culture creation industry, also featured on Tuesday morning's "Rude Awakening" show with BK and Mark Bills. (Voice a bit hoarse due to sore throat and flu. Alan.) 00:00--0:57 - Sex, Drugs, The Charleston and Rock'n'Roll. 01:41--5:00 - Starmakers, The Beatles and Michael Jackson. 05:26--6:42 - Theodore Adorno and the Science of Music. 06:52--9:01 - Teenagers, Writers, Rebels and Role Models. 09:06--10:45 - Powerful People Wearing Masks Like Jason... 10:45--11:55 - ...Make Me Wanna Throw Up Gang Signs Like A Mason! 11:55--12:56 - Why Parents Just Don't Understand. 12:56--13:49 - Is Rap Meant For Humanity To Wrap It Up? 13:49--15:04 - Producers Will Produce Your New Image. 15:04--16:14 - Why Do Old White People Sell Offensive Music? 17:16--18:24 - How Music Can Communicate With Everyone. 18:24--18:41 - Can You Get On TV By Being Real? 18:52--20:22 - How Artists and Fans Can Make A Difference. 21:02--23:18 - The Future of the World Needs Good Music. 24:13--26:43 - Artists vs. Experts for the 21st Century. 26:50--30:06 - Cut Off Their Moves By Playing Music To Win. (Write-Up by Black Krishna.)
Part 2 of a "debate" between David Crowe and Dr. Boyd Graves on CKLN radio in Canada, recorded April 1, 2008. The program was intended to be a one-hour debate between Crowe and Graves, but Graves hung up after the first 15 minutes, and the moderator took a lot of unnecessary time trying to get him back on the phone. Regardless, Crowe delivers his usual impeccable expertise about HIV and AIDS, and points out that Graves has a conflict of interest claiming that HIV was the intentional result of a US government program in which Dr. Peter Duesberg participated, trying to sell his so-called "AIDS cure" which he has patented.
Part 1 of a "debate" between David Crowe and Dr. Boyd Graves on CKLN radio in Canada, recorded April 1, 2008. The program was intended to be a one-hour debate between Crowe and Graves, but Graves hung up after the first 15 minutes, and the moderator took a lot of unnecessary time trying to get him back on the phone. Regardless, Crowe delivers his usual impeccable expertise about HIV and AIDS, and points out that Graves has a conflict of interest claiming that HIV was the intentional result of a US government program in which Dr. Peter Duesberg participated, trying to sell his so-called "AIDS cure" which he has patented.
Cutting Through the Matrix with Alan Watt Podcast (.xml Format)
HOUR 2. Topics include: A Peek At Oil - Why Alan Watt Figures It Out - Why Cultures Are Targeted - Cultures Outside The System - War and Videogames - Gandhi - Heroes and Values - Women - Getting Political Self-Help - Relationships - Dehumanization - Cops and Soldiers - Canada - China - Soldiers of Misfortune - Winning Everything Is Everything For Everyone. (Songs: "No Apologies" by Joni Mitchell, "A Little Help From My Friends" by Joe Cocker)
Cutting Through the Matrix with Alan Watt Podcast (.xml Format)
HOUR 1. Black Krishna's Write-Up: A special CKLN Radio interview with Alan Watt, a Canadian National Treasure and Gift to the World. This wide-ranging conversation provides answers to the major questions facing humanity today, including how we got here and where we can go. Please immunize yourself, your family, friends, city and country against the propaganda by downloading and sharing his work for free from CuttingThroughTheMatrix.com and other websites dedicated to promoting his exceptional knowledge base to effectively battle for a better planet. Topics include: How We Got Here - The Shadow Government - The British Empire - The American Empire - The Hollywood Empire - The Global Empire - Can We Keep What We Like? - CIActivism - Getting People Inside Out - The Media - Propaganda - Global Warming Taxes - Changing Your Environment - Guilt - Television - Left vs. Right - Globalization - Can We Save The Matrix? - UN Weather Warfare Treaty - Chemtrails - Political Parties - Banks - Housing Agenda 21. (Songs: "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears For Fears, "As Long As We Stand" by Melanie)
Finding the adequate nutritional balance within our food is often of paramount importance. When looking at the history of the current food system serving Canadians, it becomes apparent that only for a short time have we been experimenting with such a modern approach to eating. Processed foods and industrial farming are seen as convenient innovations, but how has such a model affected the nutritional composition of our food? Two speakers addressed this concern at the 2007 Growing Up Organic Conference held in Toronto on February 17th. The conference was organized by the Canadian Organic Growers. This broadcast will examine how, since the innovations coming out of World War II, the nutritional content of the Canadian food supply has plummeted. Through the assistance of CKLN in Toronto and Heather Douglas, Deconstructing Dinner was on hand to record the conference. This broadcast features the final session of the conference where panelists were posed the question, "Is Organic Worth the Price?". Speakers Thomas Pawlick, Author, The End of Food: How the Food Industry is Destroying Our Food Supply - And What We Can Do About It (Kingston, Ontario) - Pawlick's lecture was titled "Our Children's Food, Our Children's Survival". A veteran newspaper and magazine journalist with more than 30 years experience in Canada and abroad, Thomas has taught at both Canadian and foreign universities and colleges. The End of Food exposes the cause of the food crisis--an industrial system of food production geared not toward producing nourishing food, but maximum profit for corporations. Thomas is currently on leave from his position as Associate Professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Regina. Following the book achieving best-seller status, the University cut his salary, cut his research funding, removed him from email lists, and removed all copies of his book from the shelves of the campus book store. Thomas Pawlick is currently restoring a small scale organic farm north of Kingston, Ontario with his son. Ellen Desjardins, Public Health Nutritionist - Region of Waterloo Public Health (Kitchener, ON) - Ellen's presentation is titled "Eat up! It's good for you! - what the scientific literature says about the health benefits of organics". Ellen has worked in various programs throughout the province and at the federal level for the past 20 years. Ellen has co-authored numerous articles in the area of food security. She has also chaired work-groups and prepared position papers for the Ontario Public Health Association on food systems, public health concerns about food biotechnology, and mercury in fish. In 2005, Ellen was a founding member of the new national organization Food Secure Canada. Audio Clip "Food for Fighters" - Produced in 1943 by the United States Office of War Information, this short provides a glimpse into the origins of our current food system. The film was designed to promote the innovations that provided soldiers overseas with nutritionally adequate food. The audio version featured on this broadcast is available in its visual format from the Prelinger Archive at www.archive.org.
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