The Canadian Federation of the Blind (CFB) will be holding its annual convention at the HILTON VANCOUVER METROTOWN in Burnaby BC, 6083 McKay Ave., May 3-5, 2019. Please pass along this information to your contacts. We want as many people to benefit from this event as possible. Burnaby is in the Greater Vancouver area and […]

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In the past, to be blind was to live in shame; considered a punishment for sins in a past life. The idea that being ‘legally’ blind and it’s middle age origin is almost criminal, and yet, as beggars had to prove their disability to find the favour of charity, we live in a day and […]

NNELS is currently offering seven titles from Canada Reads 2015 on CBC. (Four of the books — All my Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews, And the Birds Rained Down by Jocelyne Saucier, Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson, and This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein — are coming soon.)

The Summer 2012 issue of The Blind Canadian is available. The issue includes reports from the CFB convention and the rally for change, interviews with prominent blind professionals, messages from the CFB leadership, reviews of Graeme McCreath’s book The Politics of Blindness, an in-depth piece by Elizabeth Lalonde on her experiences at the Louisiana Center […]

You can download a PDF version of the Canadian Federation of the Blind’s 2012 Convention, ‘The Journey’, by following this link. A text version can be found by clicking here.