Newsletter

From our director: “These times call for unexpected, odd alliances and strange, disparate communities. It is time to make new friends and recognize deeper common values.”

From our director: “Rather than giving in to despair, this is a time to muster our resolve, gather new friends and collectively prepare the soil.”

From our director: “The offers of ‘normality,’ comfort and convenience are seductive. I hope we all recognize what we give up as a society if we give in to the seduction.”

From our director: “AI is like a magnifying mirror of our current society, exaggerating existing patterns of disparity.”

From our director: At ACAW, “we collectively tackled some wicked challenges by generously making room for difference and thereby finding deeper commonalities.”

From our director: “The real work begins [at ACAW], when you help us to address the intractable, unjust, systemic issues faced if you have a disability.”

From our director: “Thanks to all of your much-appreciated input, we have a plan for the Accessible Canada, Accessible World event in Montreal and online.”

From our director: “We want to grow a community of practice that extends globally and that authentically includes the people who feel the greatest impact of barriers and the decisions made.”

From our director: “In Canada we have an opportunity, and thereby a responsibility, to do what we can to address the entangled barriers that lead to global exclusion and disparity.”

From our director: “Critical financial decisions have been handed to unexplainable machines that optimize the unfair ‘successes’ of the past and fail to recognize … anyone who is different from the norm.”