Ami-audio Live

To kick off our Broadcast at the CCB White Cane Week Experience Expo, we speak to Ian White, President of the CCB Toronto Visionaries Chapter, and Louise Gillis, President of CCB National. We’re joined by President of CCB Dragon Boat Toronto, Myra Rodrigues, and Chris Jonas, President of Blind Sailing Canada! How do you make your documents more accessible? Onix Canada has a solution and we speak with Dawn Campbell, Canadian Account Manager for Onix Canada about this! We chat with the founder of The Checkered Eye, Libby Thaw about what’s new with her project! Let’s get into more adaptive sports! We hang out with Craig F. Spurrell of the CCB Road Runners Chapter, as well as GLENN BABCOCk of Ontario Visually Impaired Golfers. We learn more about Inclusive Design Research Centre - Vision Technology Service. Who are they and how are they helping the blind and low vision community? iyasu ihdego is the Owner and Operator of Vision Aids Inc. based in Toronto, and he joins us to tell us more about what Vision Aids off

Host Dave Brown broadcasts live from Spectrum Productions’ gala-screening of films by youth on the autism spectrum, who attended Spectrum’s 2018 summer camps. He interviews six filmmakers, and presents highlights of speeches from the stage. At last year’s fundraiser, over 650 guests helped Spectrum Productions raise $55,000 with all proceeds going towards supporting Spectrum’s unique programming.

We have a Friday Vibes Roundtable with Conference Presenter Marcia Yale, who is presenting on Improving Braille availability in Canadian Public Libraries.

For a special Braille Conference edition of the Chatty Bookshelf, Ryan Hooey discusses Out Of The Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille, a biography about the creator of Braille himself.

We have a special Buzz with Bill roundtable, discussing Braille experiences of Bill Shackleton.

Kristina Stoyanova tells us how we can automatically measure our caffeine intake with Apple's Health app and a smart mug!

Braille Conference presenter Natalie Martinello debriefs us on the Results from a study on the experiences of adults and seniors who have learned braille.

CNIB conducted a survey of working aged Canadians with vision loss, as part of the International levels of Employment Survey. Head of Research and Chief Accessibility Officer Mahedeo Sukhai relays the findings.

Conference presenters Emmanuel Blaevoet and Rebecca Blaevoet of Tactile Vision Graphics Inc., tell us how tactile graphics can inhance the lives of persons with vision loss.

Kim Kilpatrick gives us an update about using the accessible voting machine for our municipal election in the advanced poll.

Brock Richardson highlights the new NBA season, and let’s us in on what he considers to be the biggest surprise of this year’s National Hockey League.

Technology expert Michael Feir begins a series on the different GPS Tracking choices available on iOS devices, starting with an overview of GPS Tracking and what it actually means.

AMI-audio live celebrates the 32nd Annual Ontario Folk Music Conference! Join Kelly MacDonald and Ramya Amuthan, as the speak with musicians and enjoy live musical performances.

AMI-audio live celebrates the 32nd Annual Ontario Folk Music Conference! PEI singer, songwriter and musician Rachel Beck highlights her self-titled debut album which came out March 2018.

AMI-audio live celebrates the 32nd Annual Ontario Folk Music Conference! We speak to Mike Stevens of Sarnia, Ontario; an  award winning musician, composer, author, and Founder of ArtsCanCircle, a non-profit organization that forms artistic relationships amongst the Northern communities of Canada.

AMI-audio live celebrates the 32nd Annual Ontario Folk Music Conference! We chat with the musical couple called Tomato/Tomato from New Brunswick, a high-energy duo giving us a mix of folk and country for a “genre-bending” fusion!

AMI-audio live celebrates the 32nd Annual Ontario Folk Music Conference! We chat and hear from the pairing of two individually successful songwriters, Helen Austin and Paul Otten which make up Big Little Lions!

AMI-audio live celebrates the 32nd Annual Ontario Folk Music Conference! Andy Frank, Manager of AMI-audio, tells us about his past in the folk community.

AMI-audio live celebrates the 32nd Annual Ontario Folk Music Conference! We're joined by three-time JUNO Award nominees and Billboard charting band Sultans of String!

AMI-audio live celebrates the 32nd Annual Ontario Folk Music Conference! We're joined by a new duo that go by the name “Even the Bird Was Free”. They consist of Canadian blues artist Manitoba Hal and Windsor based singer-songwriter Karen Morand.