Triple Vision

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Triple Vision

On Triple Vision, the Pandora Project brings you the history of Canadians who are blind, deafblind, and partially sighted, one story at a time, illuminating the challenges of the past, present, and future.

  1. SEPT 22

    "I Am Canadian": Exploring the Intersectionalities of Race and Disability in Canada

    In this, our 50th episode, the Triple Vision team engages listeners in a fascinating discussion on aspects of Canadian identity that we don't always think about. We speak with Sheyfali Saujani who, at the time of our interview, was completing her PhD based on her Personal experiences with multiculturalism, her life as a racialized immigrant, and a former CBC journalist. She also happens to be an individual with partial vision. Sheyfali guides us through these various intersectionalities towards the question of what being Canadian means, both for her, and all of us. The issues that I faced often had to do with my race or the colour of my skin. People look at me, they see a person who is racialized as brown and they immediately think, 'oh, where are you from? Are you from India?' And then you get into this longer history because my family historically migrated from India to East Africa. We were then expelled from Africa in 1972 from the Ugandan dictator Idi amin, and found refuge in Canada.

    24 min

  2. AUG 23

    when does special need to be special: an interview with AMI's Kelly MacDonald

    In this weeks episode, Carolyn and Peter talk with Kelly MacDonald of AMI. They asked the question; In a world of increasing integration for people who are blind, death blind, and partially sided, is there still a need for specialized broadcasters such as AMI? In this entertaining podcast Kelly answers this question, while providing humourous anecdotes along the way about his broadcasting career. We may not necessarily be meeting the local brodcaster, radio 98 or what ever they are. That is, not really mentioning disability at all in their news cast. When we talk politics there is never the "well for the seniors or disability this is what Justin Trudeau's platform is for that". We don't hear it, and it is because it is not the hot key. Does AMI do more of that? We are more likely to find, we are more likely to interview the people who at least will talk to us that way, and walk out saying "that should hold them for a while, good".

    41 min

  3. JUL 22

    TV48 - TripleVision Happy Hour 2024

    Welcome to a special episode of TripleVision entitled Happy Hour 2024. In this hour the TripleVision team and community guests will share war stories and humourous encounters of what it is like to be a blind person navigating in a sighted world.

    59 min

  4. JUN 18

    Reflecting on her Legacy: Sharlyn Ayotte Looks Back on Her Life as an Entrepreneur

    In episode 47 the Triple Vision team speaks with Sharlyn Ayotte, the Founder of T-Base Communications, now Allyant. We talk to her on the day of her retirement when she looks back on her long and pioneering career as an entrepreneur who pushed the boundaries on accessibility and universal design. As T-base the company was responsible for the Info touch system which delivered real time information to Canadians in multiple and alternative formats, as well as developed North America's first audio banking machine. I had learned some things during that whole process. I spent probably a good year on investigating how the Government of Canada made information available to citizens and constituents of the country on matters that were really important to us. Whether it was election information or it was health based or whatever it happened to be. Since we were depending so much on computer technology to help us through the process, and its all digital, why couldn't they just support digital for other formats such as digital audio, digital braille, digital large print and all of those things.

    30 min

  5. MAY 18

    TV46 - When Will Wood Turn to Gold? Celebrating the 5th Anniversary of the Accessible Canada Act

    In this month's podcast Peter and Karoline speak with Canada's Chief Accessibility Officer Stephanie Cadieux. Calling herself Influencer in Chief Ms. Cadieux talks candidly about the progress made to date on the implementation of the Accessible Canada Act, and the long road still ahead before Canada is expected to be accessible by 2040. Too often accessibility is seen as a charitable activity, something you do when there is money left over or, when you get a grant. We have to flip that script and say, 'no, accessibility is as important as electricity'.

    32 min

  6. APR 23

    Fields of Perception: A tour of an Ashcroft Hobby Farm

    In this month's podcast Peter Field of the Triple Vision team takes listeners on a tour of his hobby farm in Ashcroft British Columbia. Peter became fascinated about how blind individuals could take up farming following an interview on podcast 22 with Professor Geoffrey Reaume of York University. In that podcast Professor Reaume explained how, prior to the industrial revolution, blind individuals fully participated in the economy by working on farms. Consequently, he and his partner purchased a 20-acre hobby farm in the interior of BC where they manage chickens, sheep, 7 dogs and an intrepid barn cat. Tune in to this month's episode of Triple Vision for this fascinating story about managing life on a farm without vision.

    31 min

  7. MAR 28

    Co-designing a More Accessible World: Reporting From CNIB Research's Co-Design Festival

    In Triple Vision's first podcast reporting from location, Peter and Karoline talk with researchers and participants at the Co-Design Festival organized by the CNIB's Research Team. On March 11 participants gathered at the Microsoft campus in Toronto to talk AI, accessible competencies, inclusive and ethical research and designing accessible blood pressure monitors. In this podcast Peter speaks with three guests at the festival about what co-design means for them. Karoline follows up with two interviews with participants on their impressions of the event. Co-design is the concept of designing products and services with those who will benefit from them at the very beginning, rather than waiting for a final, or nearly final, product.

    31 min

  8. FEB 20

    TV 43 - The Book Club

    Uncovering Book Clubs: Why Book Clubs are More Accessible to Individuals who are Blind than Ever Before In this month's podcast Karoline and Peter uncover the world of book clubs for individuals who are blind, deafblind, and partially sighted. It used to be that it was very difficult for individuals with visual impairments to join book clubs, but now, with the proliferation of books available in so many formats, attending book club meetings is no longer such a big deal. In this podcast Karoline asks Chris Jonas and Pasquale Agnone of her chat-based book club to talk about why they find book clubs so interesting, and the pros and cons of joining book clubs organized specifically for people who are blind vs. mixed book clubs. "In terms of your question about why blind people would go to a blind book club, I think its just because there's that shared experience. They have a common format like, typically most blind people prefer the audio format. They know what the sources are. They can compare what is available. They can talk about the narration which is not something which is usually talked about in a "non-blind" book club. There's things like that. Things that everyone is familiar with as a person with a visual impairment when it comes to reading books."

    30 min
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On Triple Vision, the Pandora Project brings you the history of Canadians who are blind, deafblind, and partially sighted, one story at a time, illuminating the challenges of the past, present, and future.

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  • Creator
    Pandora Project
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2024
  • Episodes
    51
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    © Pandora Project
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    Triple Vision

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