When this news broke in November, we were right smack in the middle of one of the worst parts of Carin’s illness so I completely missed it. But it’s just as important now as it was then, so better late than never as we say far too often around here. If, as we are, you’re …
Category Archives: advocacy
Can We Forget The Right To Be Forgotten?
Among the many things I didn’t get a chance to write about thanks to the absolute sucktitude of 2014 is the absolute sucktitude of the European Union’s right to be forgotten ruling. If you don’t know what that is, here’s a nice explainer for you. But thanks to classical pianist Dejan Lazic, I won’t have …
Stella Young, Gone Way Too Young
Wow. We just linked to Stella Young’s Ted Talk, and now I hear that she has died. At 32, she has died unexpectedly. Damn. Life truly is unfair. It looks as though, from all the people remembering her, that she made a lot of impact in her short life. I hope she’s at peace, and …
To All The People Out There Just Like Bob Here…
This sensitivity training video is pretty awesome. I’d love to know what happens at one point where the woman goes “I’ve got ya,” and then the other woman screams. I get the general message, but I’d love to know if she just got grabbed and heaved onto a bus or some other ridiculous thing. I …
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Accessible Voting In The Waterloo Region: Here Are All Your Options…I Think…
I usually don’t wait until the day before advanced polling starts to put up a link to accessible stuff around the region, but a. Captain Nameless Illness is making me work really slow, and b. We’re still figuring out this huuuge city, so didn’t have much of a clue. So, it took longer to make …
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Service Dog Teams and Ambulances
I got this on a mailing list. It’s a video for paramedics about helping service dog teams when an ambulance is called, and I thought it was kinda neat. I learned a few things too, like I didn’t even know about those open grating things and how they can cut paws. Tansy was one lucky …
Thank You For Calling Rogers. Please Hold While We Ensure You Have A Search Warrant
And now, a rare “Good job, Rogers!” moment. Starting presumably now, there’ll be no more of that here’s everyone’s personal info, officer stuff going on. After hearing your concerns and reviewing the Supreme Court ruling from last month, we’ve decided that from now on we will require a court order/warrant to provide basic customer information …
Elections Ontario: We Make Voting Easy…Except We Don’t.
I was going to write about this anyway, but then I got a request for it. Awesome! People like reading about our wacky adventures. I feel bad that this is only going up the night before the actual election day, so can’t help anyone else who might want to use assistive voting, but oh well. …
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Kill CAPTCHA Campaign
No idea how much of an impact this will have, but since it certainly can’t hurt to try, I’ll pass it along. The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network has started a letter writing campaign aimed at convincing websites big and small to remove the CAPTCHAs from their websites and replace them with more user friendly, …
We Don’t Like That Site You’re Looking At, Citizen. This Warning Has Been Brought To You By The Police And Your ISP
We don’t have lawful access (that’s internet spying to you and me) legislation in Canada, and for a number of reasons we really don’t need it. There’s no telling that to the Harper government, but everything I’ve ever read by smart and reasonable people on the subject suggests that our existing laws should take care …