Retrospective -- Speed-Dating with the David Lepodcast’s First Season Guests

Humour and levity are surprisingly powerful tools for making your points come through in disability rights advocacy. Comedy can sharpen your arguments while also making them more relatable. Toronto based comedian, Courtney Gilmour, cleverly uses her lived experience with disability to inspire her material, to incredible effect.

Humour and levity are surprisingly powerful tools for making your points come through in disability rights advocacy. Comedy can sharpen your arguments while also making them more relatable. Toronto based comedian, Courtney Gilmour, cleverly uses her lived experience with disability to inspire her material, to incredible effect.

It can be an immense stress to advocate for your child’s success in a school system. In this second half of a two-part conversation, retired school principal, Febbie Stern, shares invaluable insight on how to do it. You’ll learn how to approach your school board in practical ways that will be far more likely to achieve positive outcomes.

It can be an immense stress to advocate for your child’s success in a school system. In this first of a two-part conversation, retired school principal, Febbie Stern, shares invaluable insight on how to do it.

Disability rights advocacy is often not something you will do on your own. You frequently work with others. Naturally, differences in opinion happen. That’s why learning to successfully navigate coalitions and build common ground are crucial for anyone involved in advocacy. Today’s guest, Wendy Porch, the executive director of CILT, the Centre for Independent Living in Toronto, has extensive experience doing this. She teaches us how to find common ground and circumnavigate pitfalls.