The Parapan Am Games: Where the Disabled Show Their Abilities.

The Pan American Games are currently being held in Toronto, Ontario but it’s the Parapan American (Parapan Am) Games where people with disabilities are able to focus on their abilities. This is the 5th Parapan Am Games and, according to their website, this will be the “best-ever Parapan Am Games […]

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Mental Self-Care Is as Important as Physical Self-Care

As we near International Self-Care Day on July 24th, it’s worth remembering that self-care   isn’t just about the body, but it’s about the brain and mind too. In fact, mental self-care is as important as physical self-care. Mental Health Self-Care When people think self-care they often think of exercising, […]

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Ableism and Having a Disability

In Canada, we are fortunate that, in many circumstances, disabilities are taken into consideration. Having brail in an elevator or a wheelchair ramp up to a building are just two things that many of us take for granted. But what about when discrimination against those with a disability – ableism […]

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Can a Disabled Person Think Their Way to Mobility? 1

  If you’re severely disabled with paralysis, can you think your way to mobility? Some researchers at the Defitech Foundation Chair in Brain-Machine Interface (CNBI) sure think so. The team, headed by José del R. Millán, has recently been making great strides in allowing disabled people to control a remote […]

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