Category Archives: Current Affairs

News – April 2025 – Engaging with the Apple Corporation to find ways to honour the memory of the late John Panarese Donna continues to engage with Drew Winkelman of Apple to find ways to honour the late John Panarese … Continue reading →

News – April 2025 – Call from Rogers Communications Donna also fulfilled a request from a past Rogers Communications accessibility executive for her thoughts on Roger’s accessibility initiatives.

News – April 2025 – Blogs Posted For This Month To the www.sterlingcreations.ca/blog page: https://sterlingcreations.ca/blog/overcoming-barriers-in-the-canadian-government-procurement-process-for-people-with-disabilities https://sterlingcreations.ca/blog/the-duty-to-accommodate-a-forgotten-commitment https://sterlingcreations.ca/blog/ the-third-party-trauma-how-the-canadian-governments-dependence-on-outsourced-developers-fails-its-citizens-with-disabilities https://sterlingcreations.ca/blog/the-dollarama-dilemma You can also view previous selections here: https://barrierfreecanada.org/contributions-from-founder-and-advocate-donna-jodhan/

News – April 2025 – Engaging with Innosearch Donna started an engagement with the Innosearch company; a rapidly growing global company that offers eCommerce shopping to persons with disabilities. Innosearch reached out to Donna and she will be interviewing Patrick … Continue reading →

News – April 2025 – Potter Pieces Donna continues to collaborate with her friends Blair and Ran to promote her pottery pieces on Instagram.  These pieces are already being sold on www.etsy.com/shop/blindlybrilliant and on www.accesspark.shop Donna has started to build … Continue reading →

Donna continued her preparation for the July 2025 Eye Retreat Camp and will be one of the mentors/tutors at this year’s camp.

During the month of February, Donna spent many hours assembling the Transitioning to a New World (TNW) team and is pleased to introduce them as follows: Leo Bissonnette, Denis Boudreau, Lisa Drouillard, Glenda Nicol, and Donna Jodhan. The TNW initiative … Continue reading →

On February 7th, Donna received a very exciting call from Dr. Alan Chase, head of the Envisioning Youth Empowerment (EYE) Retreat. Dr. Chase informed Donna that he was in the process of applying for grants and, if successful, he wanted … Continue reading →

On February 15th, with the assistance of her friends Sam and Aaron, Donna submitted an application to receive a grant of $10,000.00 USD from the Flight for Sight organization. If successful, Donna will use this grant to show travelers who … Continue reading →

On February 20th, Donna engaged in a call with Kathy Saliba of the Greater Toronto Airport Authority. In this call, Donna expressed her concerns to Kathy re the inaccessibility and non usability of the kiosks upon arrival. Donna needed to … Continue reading →