The Accessible Skies project is focused on enhancing accessibility and support for people with cognitive disabilities, their care partners, and their families in the airport experience
They are currently gathering feedback from people with cognitive disabilities and their support networks to better understand barriers in airport experiences and identify opportunities for improvement.
The survey takes about 10-20 minutes and is open until December 31, 2026. Fill it out here.
There’s the ever so subtle shade of auburn dusting across my garden hedge, a deepening red blush on the apples in the orchard too. From my couch by the window, I catch the aroma of crops being harvested from the fields nearby. I watch a squirrel darting across my yard...
I went out for a bit of a joyride on the afternoon of Sunday, April 14th, 2024. I planned to be out for an hour or two at most. Beyond that it was a pretty unremarkable day – clear and cool for spring in Vancouver.
I was heading east on Rumble Street in southwest Burnaby, when a driver heading west turned left across my path. As he did so, he hit me at roughly 50km/hr, which was fast enough to throw me into the windshield, and up over the roof of the car, landing on the pavement about ten feet behind it.
I remember the car coming to a stop diagonally, pointing away from me. I also remember everything slowing down in the split-second of the crash. As the driver took my bike out from under me and I flew into the windshield, it was like an out-of-body experience. The crunch of my body hitting glass, the thud of it collapsing on the pavement.