AMI This Week is a weekly magazine show with a distinct community focus, sharing events and interesting stories from coast to coast.
AMI This Week is a weekly magazine show with a distinct community focus, sharing events and interesting stories from coast to coast.
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Jillian Gillis profiles Steven Poole, a.k.a. Shayla Shenanigans, one of Nova Scotia’s most prominent drag queens about life, being legally blind, the joy of performing and the importance of giving back to the community.
Brian Bushway speaks to a group of men.
Beth Deer meets Brian Bushway, an entrepreneur who is blind and teaching sighted and non-sighted athletes that with proper brain training and sensory awareness, their performances can far exceed their expectations.
Shayla Shenanigans performs on stage.
Jillian Gillis profiles Steven Poole, a.k.a. Shayla Shenanigans, one of Nova Scotia’s most prominent drag queens about life, being legally blind, the joy of performing and the importance of giving back to the community.
A man speaks into the camera during a television interview.
Vancouver’s Grant Hardy learns about a special mobile classroom launched by the Learning Disabilities Society (LDS), which travels around to communities in need to provide learning support for students with special needs.
Molly Burke speaks into the camera.
Molly Burke shares her thoughts on the importance of shows like AMI This Week.
AMI This Week October 11, 2021
Beth Deer learns about Jake, a service dog who plays an important role comforting children who testify in court about traumatic experiences. Then, Marco Pasqua talks about how he and his wife have taken an inclusive approach to their baby’s nursery.
Two men sit at a picnic table, talking.
Christopher Vallée learns about Nature for All, an initiative to make spaces like the Baxter Conservation Area—150 hectares of pristine nature—an accessible “gold standard” nature attraction in Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec.
Marco Pasqua, his wife and baby daughter.
Accessibility advocate, and new dad, Marco Pasqua talks about his anxieties leading up to fatherhood and how he and his wife have taken an inclusive approach to the baby’s nursery so that he can be fully involved in caring for their new addition: baby Stella.
Kevin Naidoo looks into the camera.
Contributor Kevin Naidoo shares his thoughts on headaches and a technique for improving them.
A black Labrador retriever looks into the camera.
Beth Deer learns about Jake, a service dog in Airdrie, Alberta, who plays an important role comforting children who testify in court about traumatic experiences.
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The Vale: Shadow of the Crown is out! Alex Smyth talks to the team behind the project, as well as Steve Saylor, a gamer who is blind, to find out his thoughts on the blind-accessible game.
Frances Dadin-Alli and Tomi Adesina stand in a kitchen.
AMI Contributor Tomi Adesina learns a new recipe for jollof rice, the popular and much-loved West African dish, from Frances Dadin-Alli of Franyz Kitchen Nigerian Cuisine.
Artist Paul Knoll paints a rainbow on a garage door.
Christopher Vallée meets Paul Knoll, an artist with Down Syndrome who creates vibrant art projects with the support of LiveWorkPlay.
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The Vale: Shadow of the Crown is out! Alex Smyth talks to the team behind the project, as well as Steve Saylor, a gamer who is blind, to find out his thoughts on the blind-accessible game.
David Errington and Kelly MacDonald sit in the front seat of a car.
In this moment celebrating ATW's 10th anniversary, Kelly MacDonald recalls driving AMI CEO David Errington around a rally track for a segment.
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AMI Contributor April Hubbard checks out the accessible wheelchair course at the OnTree Fun & Adventure Park in Windsor, Nova Scotia. Then, we learn about Rocky Mountain Adaptive, a registered charity in Canmore, Alberta, making outdoor sport and recreation accessible for all.
Two girls sit at an electronic piano. One gives the camera a thumbs-up.
Hillary McKibbin was born with a one-in-a-million blood disorder, which started a movement to get Canadians to join the stem cell registry.
A man and woman speak during a Zoom conference call.
Grant Hardy chats with reachAbility’s CEO, Tova Sherman, about some of the challenges in traveling with a disability, and what she is doing to address them.
A woman, seated in a wheelchair, sits on a platform in the trees.
AMI Contributor April Hubbard checks out the accessible wheelchair course at the OnTree Fun & Adventure Park in Windsor, Nova Scotia.
A woman, seated in a wheelchair, is carried up a mountain trail.
We learn about Rocky Mountain Adaptive, a registered charity in Canmore, Alberta, making outdoor sport and recreation accessible for all.
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Alex Smyth learns about the CNIB’s future plans surrounding SmartLife Centres, including the newest location opening in Barrie.
A woman speaks into the camera during a television interview.
Chris Vallée learns about a new on-the-go day program in Ottawa that operates year-round for adults with exceptionalities.
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Halifax AMI-tv contributor Alex Kronstein reviews the book “Sincerely, Your Autistic Child: What People on the Autism Spectrum Wish their Parents Knew about Growing up, Acceptance and Identity,” edited by Emily Paige Ballou, Sharon daVanport and Morénike Giwa Onaiwu.
A man places bananas inside a plastic grocery bag.
Vancouver’s Grant Hardy learns about LOAF—Local Open Access Fridge—a grassroots community initiative that aims to organize a community-maintained fridge and pantry to offer easily accessible, free and healthy food to all who need it.
A group of people, wearing surgical masks, sit in a room.
Alex Smyth learns about the CNIB’s future plans surrounding SmartLife Centres, including the newest location opening in Barrie.
AMI This Week September 13, 2021
CNIB’s annual Guide Dog Month is taking place in September, and Beth Deer finds out what the organization has planned. Then, Grant Hardy learns about a new Braille code created to preserve the endangered Sm'algyax First Nations dialect.
Alex Smyth stands on the front porch of a home.
Alex Smyth shares his thoughts about getting back into field production, along with some of the stories he’s working on this season.
A man sits at a laptop, looking at the screen.
Grant Hardy finds out about a new Braille code that was created to preserve the endangered Sm'algyax First Nations dialect, and the remarkable individuals who made it happen.
Patronus, a black Labrador retriever, looks up.
CNIB’s annual guide dog month is taking place all of September, and Beth Deer finds out what the organization has planned this year.
A woman rides in a trishaw, a combination tricycle and rickshaw.
Jillian Gillis tags along on a trishaw ride with Mad Shea and reports on the new Cycling Without Age program at Northwood, a long-term care organization in Halifax.
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On this special episode of AMI This Week, we’re celebrating our 10-year anniversary with members of the ATW team, both past and present.