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Outlook on Radio Western
by Outlook on Radio Western
Inspired by The Canadian Federation of the Blind, Outlook is a show about accessibility, advocacy, and equality. Hosted by two siblings who were born blind. Heard on 94.9 Radio Western every Monday from 11 AM to noon.
Episodes
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Outlook 2026-06-29 - Oh The Possibilities, A Late June Mixed Bag Monday
We’re playing a new game called: Human Or AI Image Description, guess which (hint, it’s REAL tough) and a Youtube channel was proposed called: Watch With Oyster where you could watch her reactions to Disney films with animals which is pretty much all of them and pretty much the best, sweetest…
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Outlook 2026-06-22 - Through a Knight‘s Eyes With Cross Eye Comics Founder Doug Knight
After nearly eight years of doing this, we love it when there’s firsts for this program and our guest this week fits that bill in more than one way. His name makes him sound mid evil, but he has started his own indie comic book publisher Cross Eye Comics. So it is fitting, along with having...
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Outlook 2026-06-15 - Vision Through The Mist with Mistie Hale
Our guest Mistie says: “I’m the kind of person who…if I don’t know how to do something, I usually know someone who does.” This week on Outlook we’re speaking with first-time guest Mistie Hale of "Vision through the mist a woman’s journey”, someone sister/co-host Kerry found first on Facebook…
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Outlook 2026-06-01 - Kerry's First Blindness 101 Workshop, King Orca’s First Show
The theme of National Accessibility Week 2026 (May 31st to June 6): building a strong Accessible Canada It invites all of us including governments, businesses, organisations, and individuals to take actions to advance a barrier free country. Significant progress has been made to eliminate/prevent...
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Outlook 2026-05-25 - National Accessibility Awareness Week, Blindness 101 Workshops Begin
Nuance - a subtle distinction or variation It was an "unforgettable day of music, community, and celebration” for brother/co-host Brian, telling us about his evening out with his friend Matt for dinner at the newly open since January Hitching post Tavern followed by the Sunfest block party at...
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Outlook 2026-05-18 - In Her Own Words With Daring Sister Laura Dattner
"When we deny the story it defines us. When we own the story, we can write a brave new ending." Brene Brown Sister/co-host Kerry found a community during Covid times known as The Daring Sisters, a patchwork of blind women from all over, in person and virtual retreats, which serve as support and...
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Outlook 2026-05-11 - The Accessibility Advantage With Maxwell Ivey
Our guest for this one has gone from Carnival owner and amusement equipment broker' to life coach to podcast guest booker to accessibility expert who writes, speaks, consults, and hosts his own podcast asking: What is the advantage of accessibility? Sister/co-host Kerry met Maxwell Ivey on…
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Outlook 2026-05-04 - Mom & Me, & On Being Rare
Our guest says: It really made you realise how different all of us/all of you with rare diseases are. We assumed we’d find some things in common but we found more differences than more things in common which is interesting just because of how vast it is and what an area it covers. Janet is back,...
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Outlook 2026-04-27 - All Aboard The Archers Omnibus
What’s an omnibus? What’s an archer? This week’s program kicks off with the theme to BBC Radio 4’s The Archers Omnibus, a song that pumps up Kerry and Barry at the start of every week. The Archers, which is celebrating it’s 75th anniversary this year, also happens to be the longest running serial...
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Outlook 2026-04-20 - Holding Court With One Court
Well sports fans, holding court and One Court - it’s snowflakes in April, along with it being National Volunteer Week with its benefits to the community and yet with a historical track record of exploitation of people with lived experience of disability. As you can tell, it’s another Outlook with…
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Outlook 2026-04-13 - A Mid April Mixed Bag Monday
“Are you really blind?” We three don’t usually get questioned on whether or not we’re really unable to see, but in a large room with around eight hundred people, BF Barry had the question posed to him as he held a mic and called out the guy, on stage, with the bag over his head. It’s a somewhat x...
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Outlook 2026-04-06 - An Easter Monday Mixed Bag Scramble
It’s an April scramble, we’re celebrating the birth of a few friends of the show, and it’s two months exactly till the big performance - sister/co-host Kerry finally appears, BF Barry in the background. This week on Outlook we’re talking getting sick/on our own and together, VoiceOver gestures…
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Outlook 2026-03-16 - Blindness 101, The Before, With Actor, Advocate, Athlete Jennie Bovard
Our guest for this one says: I’m so keen now on representation and demystifying things for people and inviting them in and like: “Hey, understand my experience. I’m not the weird character you saw in that movie. Do not fear me. I’m a human being. I’m Jennie”. This week on Outlook we’re speaking...
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Outlook 2026-03-09 - International Women's Day With Writer & Filmmaker Kerra Bolton
After first spending a magical week in community together in Mexico nearly a decade ago, sister/co-host Kerry has taken multiple classes and workshops from writer and filmmaker/producer Kerra Bolton such as - Writing with Your Ancestors: Infusing Memoir with Family History and Say It Plain. “It’s...
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Outlook 2026-03-02 - Blindness 101, The Before, With Returning Guest Blaine Deutscher
For 2026’s "Blindness 101" workshops, offered this year with no cost to recipients and facilitated by Blind Beginnings Society out of British Columbia, our guest this week says, on bridging the gap: "The biggest bonus is it’s free. For this year, we’re literally doing a workshop that any company…
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Outlook 2026-02-23 - Puzzles, Action & Access, Rare Disease Day 2026
Life is one giant puzzle and we spend it simply gathering up all the pieces we can and attempting to put them in some sort of working order. This week we’re talking the puzzles of life on Outlook - it’s nearly Rare Disease Day, an awareness day that is on the final day of February each year, as...
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Outlook 2026-02-16 - Barry Presents The Return of the Kijewski Sighted Siblings
Sibling: each of two or more children or offspring having one or both parents in common; a brother or sister Regular co-host BF Barry isn’t used to this term, being from Ireland where the word is less commonly used and more something clinical, a word a social worker might use. He is an only child...
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Outlook 2026-02-09 - We Identify As Blind, An Early February Mixed Bag Monday
Ra Ra Braille! We at Outlook are cheerleaders for braille, whether it’s Braille Literacy Month in January or now being into the month of February and for this first Mixed Bag show of the month following January’s BLM, we continue talking braille this and braille that. This time we’re talking…
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Outlook 2026-02-02 - Structured Discovery Training In Canada With Elizabeth Lalonde
For White Cane week in February, this year we have a discussion with Elizabeth Lalonde about the recent completion of her Masters Thesis: --An Interpretive Analysis of the Effectiveness of Non-traditional or ‘Structured Discovery’ Blindness Rehabilitation in Canada from the Perspective of Blind...
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Outlook 2026-01-26 - Blindness 101 With Shawn Marsolais & Shawna Lawson
Blindness 101 testimonial: Shawna (mother of a son who is blind) says, "People won’t leave being an expert in blindness, I don’t think as a sighted person I would ever call myself an expert. Even when Charlie is sixty, but I think that de-stigmatizing is what the workshop’s intending to do and...
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Outlook 2026-01-19 - The Sound of Braille
Sounds like… sounds like braille! What does braille sound like anyway? This week on Outlook we’re continuing with braille. What does it sound like, look like, feel like? From the analog to the electronic and the hiss of fingers sliding, reading along braille paper’s page, it’s the music of the…
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Outlook 2026-01-12 - Filing a Human Rights Complaint With Erik Burggraaf
Our first Outlook guest of the year says: I think we’re very poor at educating our population about what our government does and what it doesn’t do and what our rights are and what they aren’t. Late last year he made headlines after a ruling, his case covered by multiple media sources, but the...
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Outlook 2026-01-05 - Happy Braille Literacy Month (First Mixed Bag of 2026)
Over in Ireland, compared to North America, there’s braille on prescription medications and other products, standard in elevators (lifts) but go down the halls, to the rooms, and none next to or on the hotel room doors. Happy Braille Literacy Month. The Kijewski siblings (and Barry) are back…
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Outlook 2025-12-22 - In His Own Words With Author Robert Kingett, Pt. 2
Whether it’s being shamed by your appliance or corrupting the data stream (check out Part One for more on all this if you haven’t yet), it’s all in his own words with blind/gay writer, (lover of chocolate and chocolate chip cookies) who writes romance fiction with disabled protagonists and...
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Outlook 2025-12-15 - In His Own Words With Author Robert Kingett, Pt. 1
Has your fridge ever thought you were in a cult? Has your date, on a first date, ever stolen your last chocolate chip cookie? Well our guest in this final interview for the year has written about these experiences and much much more on his blog: Sightless Scribbles He thanks us for “indulging his...
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Outlook 2025-12-08 - Niagara Takes Flight & a Xmas Snail Mixed Bag
Niagara Falls and a Christmas snail. Twas the grand month of Christmas and all through the studio, it was our final in person episode of 2025 you know. From Best Western to Radio Western, light shows and Niagara Takes Flight. At the Falls the mist was rising into the air, our 70th birthday...
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Outlook 2025-12-01 - Winding Down & Ramping Up, Early December Mixed Bag Monday
Winding down and ramping up. Bf Barry and guide dog Oyster (not Lester) are back for a pre-Christmas visit and join us as our additional Outlook crew. The Centre for Independent Living Toronto, Fanshawe College and George Brown and Toronto Metropolitan University, Disability Without Poverty, and...
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Outlook 2025-11-24 - Inclusion Benefits Everyone With AEBC President Marcia Yale
INCLUSION BENEFITS EVERYONE December 3rd is The United Nations International Day of Persons With Disabilities where the theme for 2025 is: “Fostering disability inclusive societies for advancing social progress" And this year, on Saturday, December 6th, from 1 to 4 PM EST, Alliance For Equality…
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Outlook 2025-11-10 - Indigenous Disability Awareness Month, Mixed Bag Monday
It’s November and Indigenous Disability Awareness Month (IDAM) raises awareness about and celebrates the significance social economic and cultural contributions that Indigenous people experiencing disability bring to our communities. It’s also an opportunity to mobilise to address the complex...
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Outlook 2025-11-03 - Blue Jays Woes & Halloween Horrors
Don’t mind the puns in this one, but we’re entering the “home stretch” of 2025 as we discuss how to “level the playing field” for us, as blind Blue Jays fans, when comparing baseball radio broadcast with that done on television on this Monday after the Big Game. This week on Outlook it’s a MLB...
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Outlook 2025-10-27 - Introducing "Picture This ADC (Audio Description Collaborative)"
Picture this - five ladies, two blind and three sighted and from Canada, the States, and Europe; getting together in a group to practice the skill of creating good quality audio description. Practice requires we now put our training into practice. Introducing “PICTURE THIS ADC (Audio Description...
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Outlook 2025-10-20 - A Marlee Matlin Mixed Bag Monday
Boo! She’s back. Sister/co-host Kerry’s back and up to her old tricks on Outlook this week. A lot to cover again on this Mixed Bag episode. Kerry teases her new audio description company she’s part of that will be revealed on the next show, but first her and brother co-host Brian discuss the…
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Outlook 2025-10-13 - BAM! Begins, An October Mixed Bag Monday
BAM! 2025 - coming to you live on location. Yep, October is more recognisable for being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but while Blindness Awareness Month is less familiar to some, it sounds better, more straightforward, rolling off the tongue as acronym than BCAM. This week on Outlook, with the...
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Outlook 2025-09-29 - Silkworm September Mixed Bag, Tylenol Is Safe & Assault Is Wrong Edition
Milk worms, silkworms, and webs - oh my! It was a Silkworm September. From Chicago to Northern Ireland, where are we now? Some find it amazing we get out much at all. This week on Outlook - sister/co-host Kerry’s recovering from another sickness and makes good use of the “mute” button,...
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Outlook 2025-09-15 - 300th Show Spectacular With Station Staff & Friends Ian, Elijah, Ryan, & Barry
The Music Director at Radio Western says: I’m just so grateful to have you guys on our station, to have Outlook here on our programming, and congratulations on reaching your 300th episode. Note at this point: we are a radio show first, as our theme states, and then become this podcast, if anyone...
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Outlook 2025-09-08 - My Unexpected Life With Maria Johnson of Girl Gone Blind
Guest Maria says: “God I just Love the feel of a good paperback.” To that co-host Kerry replies emphatically: “Books are thrilling!” “Working in the book industry and having a fresh book…the smell of a fresh book, there’s nothing like it,” says Maria Johnson of Girl Gone Blind. This was her life,...
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Outlook 2025-09-01 - Travelling Solo With Returning Guest Laura Bain
September has arrived and it’s Labour Day with Laura Bain. Laura is wrapping up school and starting a new job and she’s back on Outlook to tell us all about travel, transitions, and changes she’s made since she was last on air with us. Speaking of schooling, Laura has been on an academic journey…
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Outlook 2025-08-25 - Medical Assistance In Dying In Canada With Journalist Meagan Gillmore
Content warning: (Please do take care while listening as this episode discusses themes around suicidal ideation and death. If you are in distress currently, across Canada you can call or text 9-8-8 toll free from anywhere around the country. *** We’ve known of this returning guest for years and...
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Outlook 2025-08-18 - Summer In The Park With Mandy E. MacLean of Crossroads Theatre
After our conversation with today’s guest, check out our thoughts on how theatre and performance spaces can work to be more inclusive and can work towards a greater focus on meeting the access needs of intersecting humans in artistic spaces. As Brian shares about his really missing out on being…
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Outlook 2025-08-04 - It should not be heard by anyone midsummer mixed bag
She’s just a girl and she’s on fire She’s living in a world and it’s on fire. —Alicia Keys It’s a slow burn summer, burn as in the wildfires ravaging communities and landscapes across Canada while 18-year-old Canadian competitive swimmer Summer McIntosh is on fire, winning multiple medals at the...
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Outlook 2025-07-21 - Beach Formal Mixed Bag Monday
Bumbleberry and BF Barry back with us again. It’s not all roses on Outlook this week, though it’s another Disability Pride Month episode (celebrating brother/co-host Brian’s July transplant anniversary) and we’re talking poutine and pickle fries to mark the occasion. Actually, we discuss an…
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Outlook 2025-07-14 - Asking Questions & Stoking Curiosity With Theatre Professor H. Mayhem May
K: “Community is so important. To knowing you’re not alone and then showing up for each other. H: 100 percent. K: even when a situation is scary and people are thinking about their own situations of course but also thinking about their loved ones and their neighbours. H: We will only survive this...
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Outlook 2025-07-07 - Summer of Pride Heating Up, Early July Mixed Bag Monday
“We will carve our place into time and space.” —Wild Things, Alessia Cara It’s powerful outcry, a protest and empowerment song by Alessia, as sister/co-host Kerry loves music that’s unapologetic - Things are heating up during July’s Disability Pride Month (DPM). This week on Outlook we’re...
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Outlook 2025-06-30 - A Summer of Pride, Late June Mixed Bag Monday
As we cross over from June’s Pride Month into July’s Disability Pride, let’s just say it is a summer of PRIDe with us here. This week on Outlook we’re talking about the connections, the intersectionalities between those celebrating LGBTQIA2S+ and celebrating living with disability. Yes, we know...
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Outlook 2025-06-23 - Beyond My Blur, Exploring Our World Beyond Vision With Marie Elise
Bf Barry says of summer starting, revving up, especially for co-host Kerry: Barry says “hanging out and hanging in” But as we greet the summer season, we’re hanging out with someone Kerry came across through Steph McCoy of the fashion, style, and inclusion platform "Bold Blind Beauty". Of course,...
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Outlook 2025-06-16 - Blind People Play Video Games?! With Zoe Espinoza
Our guest says: “Let me tell you, nothing…nothing in the world is as satisfying as fighting a salty gamer bro online in Mortal Combat, winning a match, and then telling them - hey you just got beat by a blind, trans girl. Have a good one. No rematch!” We featured a sibling pair, Zoe and Jessica...
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Outlook 2025-06-09 - Talking With Travel Coach Linsay Lusyne
It all started with a trip to Cuba. Our guest on Outlook this week explains: At one moment in life you don’t really know what you’re doing and then, all of a sudden, you get this opportunity and a huge passion just grew out of it. From Belgium to Canada, Linsay Lusyne has a love of travel…
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Outlook 2025-06-02 - An Early June Mixed Bag Monday
LOOK OUT - Goose crossing ahead! Not all take kindly to the following of directions. Communication takes practice. Patience is needed to get where you’d like to be. Last week was National Accessibility Week (beginning on the final Sunday of May) and this time on Outlook (where “accessibility” is…
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Outlook 2025-05-26 - National AccessAbility Week, A Late May Mixed Bag Monday
The theme for National AccessAbility Week this year is “ Breaking barriers together: Paving the way for an inclusive future .” Established in 2017, National AccessAbility Week celebrates, promotes and showcases the diversity, inclusion and accessibility in this country, and highlights some of the...
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Outlook 2025-05-05 - A Post Federal Election Early May Mixed Bag Monday
Irish bells, to kick things off, to celebrate Oyster on her seventh birthday like the bells worn around her neck as she runs free at her favourite place. It’s our post-election Mixed Bag show on Outlook this week, until the next one when sister/co-host Kerry and Regular co-host Barry can…
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Inspired by The Canadian Federation of the Blind, Outlook is a show about accessibility, advocacy, and equality. Hosted by two siblings who were born blind. Heard on 94.9 Radio Western every Monday from 11 AM to noon.
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