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Shelley Ann Morris from the Canadian Council of the Blind had the opportunity to test out some new vision glasses designed by the students at Algonquin College for a segment on CBC morning. You can hear the segment at the link below.
CBC Ottawa Morning – Vision Glasses Segment with Shelley Ann Morris
On July 8th Shelley Ann Morris and Kim Kilpatrick from the Canadian Council of the Blind spoke with Craig Oliver about being visually impaired community radio hosts on CKCU’s Welcome to My World, a program devoted to the issues facing persons with disabilities. You can watch the Youtube video here, or click the link below to watch on AMIs site.
Shelley Ann is the voice you hear when you call the national office, and Kim is the head of the GTT Program. These are hard working ladies, both for the CCB and in the wider community.
July 15, 2019 – Gatineau, QC – Canadian Transportation Agency
This post from
https://www.otc-cta.gc.ca/eng/content/new-air-passenger-protection-regulations-now-force
Starting today, passengers have new rights under the Canadian Transportation Agency’s (CTA) Air Passenger Protection Regulations when they travel by air. The new regulations, a major CTA regulatory initiative, require airlines to meet certain obligations towards passengers, such as:
To help passengers navigate their new rights, the CTA has launched an online service for air passengers at airpassengerprotection.ca. This dedicated website is a one-stop-shop for air passengers to learn about their rights, file an travel complaint, and find tips for hassle-free travel.
Beginning December 15, 2019, airlines will also have obligations towards passengers during flight disruptions and when seating children.
“This is an important day for the millions of Canadians who take flights to see family and friends, visit new places, do business, or seek medical treatment. The Air Passenger Protection Regulations establish clear, fair, balanced obligations that will help ensure fair treatment when people travel by air – whether they’re flying from, to or within this vast country.”
Scott Streiner, Chair and CEO of the Canadian Transportation Agency
In May 2018, the CTA began developing Air Passenger Protection Regulations to establish airline obligations towards passengers, including minimum compensation levels and standards of treatment in different circumstances.
The CTA consulted broadly for three months with the travelling public, consumer rights groups, and the airline industry through a variety of channels, including public sessions across the country, online questionnaires, surveys of passengers in airports, face-to-face meetings with key experts and stakeholders, and written submissions and comments. Following pre-publication of the regulations in Part I of the Canada Gazette, the CTA reviewed all feedback received. The CTA took all consultation input into account in finalizing the regulations.
The Canadian Transportation Agency is an independent, quasi-judicial tribunal and regulator that has, with respect to all matters necessary for the exercise of its jurisdiction, all the powers of a superior court. The CTA has three core mandates: helping to keep the national transportation system running efficiently and smoothly, protecting the fundamental right of persons with disabilities to accessible transportation services, and providing consumer protection for air passengers. To help advance these mandates, the CTA makes and enforces ground rules that establish the rights and responsibilities of transportation service providers and users and level the playing field among competitors, resolves disputes using a range of tools from facilitation and mediation to arbitration and adjudication, and ensures that transportation providers and users are aware of their rights and responsibilities and how the CTA can help them.
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The passing of this Act is creating a framework for creating a barrier-free Canada, and increasing access to banking, transportation and telecommunications sectors.
Please follow the link below to a press release from Employment and Social Development Canada abou the Accessible Canada Act.
Question 1
I Approve the Minutes from the Candian Council of the Blind Annual General Meeting 2018
Passed with 88.3% of votes
Question 2
I confirm the appointment of the auditors, KPMG LLP, for the upcoming year.
Passed with 90.6% of votes
If you missed the Annual General Meeting you can download the Raw recording here. Also listed below is a time edited recording with the silences removed. NOTE- The first minute of audio was damaged and has been removed, we join the meeting as Lousie Gillis is making the presidents welcome.
2018 was an extremely busy year for the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB). As the National President I travelled from coast to coast in Canada, into the USA, Switzerland and Turkey representing CCB at various meetings.
This year we worked on many advocacy issues as an organisation and with a variety of other organizations. One of the first items is a project we partnered with Neil Squires Foundation and CNIB on a project called “Enabling Access to Retail Payment Systems by Persons with Disabilities”. Canadians with disabilities such as blindness are not offered the necessary assurances of security, verification and independence to which every Canadian is entitled. A described video was made and then we invited some of Canada’s senior representatives from government, banking and industry to motivate them to take action. This continues to be a work in progress.
To read the rest of the report select hereIf you didn’t have a chance to participate in the 20/20 Ageing webinar, that was on June 5th, you can now hear it at the above link.