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A baby owl was discovered in a family's Christmas tree. How on earth did it get there? Producer, Beth Deer tells us more.

Vet clinics hang signs outside so people can find them, and some have decided to incorporate a sense of humour about it. Vet Danielle Jongkind shares some of the laughter that her colleagues around North America have thought up for us to enjoy. This year, ORBIS’ annual Plane Pull for Sight event has taken a fun virtual turn; Orbis CEO Lisa McKeen joins us with the details. Stories relating to a COVID-19 world for the disability community are being explored during seven AMI original ...

On our Tech Talk, Michael Babcock reminds us about Leasey, a helpful tool for JAWS screen-reader users. The NHL Final is set. Brock Richardson gives us a preview in his sports report. Edmonton AMI Reporter Bethany Deer highlights the final feature of Birthing Blind, on AMI This Week. Community Reporter Kim Hovey highlights the Yukon WILD school curriculum kicking off in 2022. We flip through quirky stories from around the globe with Jeff Ryman, on What in the World. On Know Your Rig...

Edmonton Reporter Bethany Deer previews the upcoming AMI-TV Special, Postcards from Vancouver Island.

Games are a great way to pass the time and become familiar with new technology. Michael Feir tells us about an accessible, award-winning, free Game called Dice World, available on Android and iOS. Fern Lulham shares her perspectives on how people with disabilities are being affected by COVID-19 in the UK. The Canadian Olympic Committee and Canadian Paralympic Committee made the difficult decision to not send Canadian teams to the Olympic and Paralympic Games in the summer of 2020. W...

We meet Bethany Deer, our newest AMI Presenter based in Edmonton. She joins us to preview tonight’s episode of AMI This Week.

Michael Babcock features the latest on the Mosen At Large podcast, where blind and low vision iOS users discuss the most recent Apple Event. Could this be the year the LA Dodgers win the World Series? Brock Richardson explains in his sports report. Edmonton’s Bethany Deer previews tonight’s episode of AMI This Week; we discuss her feature on questions blind people get asked a lot. Two friends have been collecting and exchanging pumpkin memorabilia for a very long time! Chyvonne Emil...

JR Bjornson calls in from Red Deer, Alberta with his accessibility review of the Instant Digital Talking Thermometer. Our movie critic Amy Amantea calls in from Vancouver with her review of the Icelandic survival movie Arctic. Our colleague Jim Krysko calls in with news about a rescue in Saskatoon after a local man got lost in dangerous weather. Joeita Gupta, Michelle McQuigge, and Kevin Philipupillai join us for our weekly news panel. We discuss the news that Norway’s one-trillion-...

On our weekly roundtable, we’re joined by producer and on-air presenter, Beth Deer.

Our AMI Reporter from Edmonton, Bethany Deer, tells us about the huge home renovation being filmed by AMI-TV.

Entertainment critic Michael McNeely previews the new Netflix movie about Ted Bundy and explores some of the controversy behind the film. Nelson Régo of Cool Blind Tech describes Microsoft’s Seeing VR and discusses a new study that supports a theory that people with vision impairments have better hearing. And, Karen McKay from CELA shares picks from their new book collection. This is the May 3, 2019 episode.

A Fort Saskatchewan couple is celebrating a doubly unique birth of daughter. Producer, Beth Deer has the details during our headlines segment (6:57). What was the first sitcom on television? Greg David Answers this question as we dive into a brief history lesson on the birth of the television sitcom (22:06). On The Buzz with Bill, Bill Shackleton tells us how lack of affordable housing in a Los Angeles neighborhood has inspired activism and art (36:31). We’re joined by Saint John Co...

Reporters Meagan Gillmore and Michelle McQuigge join Dave for our weekly news panel. They talk about who gets paid sick days and who doesn't, about two provincial governments pushing to create protest-free zones, and whether we should get rid of the seasonal time change. In the second hour of the show, our film critic Michael McNeely previews the new Mulan movie. We hear how the Texas School for the Deaf is launching two apps to protect students in emergency situations. And Gre...

We’ll talk about the use of the word ‘genocide’ in the final report from the inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. We’ll discuss a recent report about the sad state of Canada’s plastic recycling industry. And we’ll finish off our news panel with a debate about the pros and cons of banning dodgeball in schools. We’ll introduce Beth Deer, the new AMI-tv reporter in Edmonton, and her guide dog Patronus. Michael McNeely joins us in our Toronto studio to preview t...

We have our weekly roundtable with Producer, Beth Deer.

We get a preview of tonight’s episode of AMI This Week with Edmonton Reporter Bethany Deer.