Subscribe: SpotifyImagine not being able to enter your favourite store or enjoy the view from your own balcony because a disability is preventing access. Luke Anderson knows well the impact of barriers in our built environments. Since 2011 his Toronto-based StopGap...
Subscribe: SpotifyWhen it comes to advocating for people with disabilities, Al Etmanski has been a very busy man. For decades, the community organizer, social entrepreneur and author has made activism his middle name, a role he passionately embraced after his daughter...
Almost immediately after COVID-19 hit Canada in March 2020, Amy MacFarlane, Founder and CEO of Recreational Respite, realized she had a major problem. “All of our services shut down,” she says, remembering the chaos of those initial weeks. “Before the pandemic, we...
It is perhaps no surprise that two former special education teachers, Kyle and Angie Gallus, tapped into their teaching experience to launch a social enterprise. After witnessing the potential and talents of two former students who were now young adults and...
