The Monthly News Round Up For Award Winning Advocate, Sight Loss Coach and Author Donna J. Jodhan
For the month of January 2024
Read about Donna’s external engagements
https://sterlingcreations.ca/current-affairs
Major news items can be found here
It’s all about Donna’s major initiatives for this month plus a lot more
https://sterlingcreations.ca/current-affairs
For the month of January, Donna engaged in the following activities.
The Leadership Debates commission
Donna carried out the following activities.
* Reviewed the LDC’s 2023/2024 Accessibility Plan
* Suggested creative, innovative ways that the 2023/2024 Accessibility Plan can be implemented
* Provided feedback based on lived experience
* Suggested people that the LDC can consult with for their 2024/2025 plan
* Made recommendations on how the LDC can improve on their plan for 2024/2025, and continue to advance
The Canadian Air Transportation security Agency
Donna confirmed that she will be participating in activities with this agency to assist in training CATSA agents across Canada.
Work is scheduled to begin in early March.
Elections Canada
Donna submitted her evaluations on various tool kits to Elections Canada and these will be included when Elections Canada puts these tool kits into full operation.
Workshop Outline for Toolkit 1 – Running in a Federal Election
Workshop Outline for Toolkit 2 – Working in a Federal Election
Workshop Outline for Toolkit 3 – Registering and Voting in a Federal Election
She will also be submitting her feedback on Overview_Directive on Accessibility Exemptions when Selecting a Suitable Polling Place
Working with Janet Perez to offer entrepreneurship tips
Donna has started work on this project and over the coming weeks she will be working with graduates from the Carroll Centre’s screen reader user tester training course to offer tips on entrepreneurship.
Janet has extensive experience teaching children, teens, and adults who are blind or visually impaired. She has worked for the NC Division of Services for the Blind and the Governor Morehead School for the Blind (K-12) where she taught assistive technology, college prep, and career prep classes.
Appearance on Aaron Richmond’s daily podcast Aaron’s opion.
On January 20 Donna appeared on Aaron’s opinion and gave an hour long live interview with Aaron.
She answered several questions ranging from advocacy to her personal opinions on building a better world.
You can listen here
Building a better world with Donna Jodhan <https://www.youtube.com/live/xQ2h_I7GhM4?si=xR7Wr-1SddPc_Cuh>
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Appointment to the Air Canada advisory committee
Donna is delighted to announce that she has accepted a three year position to be a part of the Air Canada advisory group on accessibility issues.
(New Customer Accessibility Advisory Committee, consisting of customers with
Disabilities)
This position includes attending 4 meetings yearly; 2 virtual and 2 face to face meetings and Donna looks forward to working with her fellow committee members to help make Air Canada one of the top airlines in the world when it comes to providing second to none customer services to persons with disabilities.
You can view the Air Canada press release that was issued on Jan 30 2024.
https://media.aircanada.com/2024-01-30-Air-Canada-Introduces-New-Measures-for-Customers-with-Disabilities-under-Accelerated-Accessibility-Plan
You can start by taking a tour of Donna’s personal diary by visiting
Donna posts 3 times weekly and her posts gives you great insights into her daily life, challenges, and perspectives as a blind/vision impaired person.
Blogs posted for this month
To the www.sterlingcreations.ca/blog page
What did I learn for 2023
Through The Eyes Of My Crystal Ball
https://sterlingcreations.ca/blog/through-the-eyes-of-my-crystal-ball-any-shockers-or-shakers
The Scotia Bank saga – sad and shameful
https://sterlingcreations.ca/blog/the-scotia-bank-saga-sad-and-shameful
How big is advocacy? – as big as you want it to be!
You can also view previous selections here.
Donna has also posted other articles of interest on her
www.sterlingcreations.com/blog page
for this month.
Donna’s news round up for December 2023
The latest tips from the Sterling Creations team
Latest news from the Apple Vis online newsletter
https://sterlingcreations.com/blog/the-latest-accessible-apps-from-the-apple-december-online-news
A review of the Mountain warehouse
https://sterlingcreations.com/blog/a-review-of-the-mountain-warehouse-in-the-fairview-mall-toronto
A bit of this and a bit of that from Donna’s latest did you know diary
Catch up with Donna’s expert page at
https://sterlingcreations.ca/ask-an-expert
and for this month
10 tips for learning jaws
Read Donna’s author’s tip for this month
Ask an Author – January 2024 – Snow-Covered Trees and Snow Crunching Underfoot
And catch up with previous author’s tips
https://sterlingcreations.ca/ask-an-author
Read Donna J. Jodhan’s articles on ask the coach for this month
Ask sight loss coach Donna J. Jodhan –
Ask sight loss coach Donna J. Jodhan – how to find special warming plates for the microwave
Special plates for the microwave, where to find roasting bags, where to find freezer bags
Read Donna J. Jodhan’s tips and hints for catching up with the coach for this month
See an archive of all of her product reviews at
https://www.toptechtidbits.com/news.html
Listen and catch up with Donna’s shows
“Ask Donna”
Week 1 – ask the blogger
(on bullying;
Tips on entrepreneurship;
Scams and scammers;
Donna’s thought for today;
Week 2 – ask the coach.
Week 3 – ask the home maker.
Week 4 – book and product reviews.
“ask Donna”( )
Ask Donna YouTube Playlist: https://www.donnajodhan.com/askdonnaFeatures:
“dining with donna”
( )
week 1 – Apricot Almond French Toast
week 2 – Bacon And Eggs Bread Pudding
week 3 – Crustless Spinach Quiche
week 4 – Peach Pancakes
Dining With Donna YouTube Playlist: https://www.donnajodhan.com/dwd
Finally!
Donna has resumed posting to the Access to Information News weekly online newsletter
Sponsored by Mindvault Solutions!
What did I learn for 2023
https://barrierfreecanada.org/what-did-i-learn-for-2023-no-shocker-and-no-shaker/
Through the eyes of my crystal ball
Through The Eyes Of My Crystal Ball – Hoping For Some Shockers And Shakers
The Scotia Bank saga
To learn more about Donna as an award winning sight loss coach and advocate plus more visit www.donnajodhan.com
That’s it for this month.
Don’t forget to drop me an email at donnajodhan@gmail.com
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