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The Importance of Creating a Container for Your Content

By Vickie Cammack and Al Etmanski  Imagine a cloud of concepts, requests, emotions, ideas, values, outrage, research, vision, impulses and ideology swirling around you on your change-making journey. The listener or […]

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IMPACT-Ability Webinar with Minister Carla Qualtrough: Recap

By Bronwyn Kent On Monday, October 24, Plan Institute and Tamarack Institute kicked off the first of a seven-part IMPACT-Ability Webinar Series based on Al Etmanski’s best selling book IMPACT: […]

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Why and How it is Important for You to have a Will

By Halldor K. Bjarnason Lawyer, Access Law Group (Reposted from 2012) How would you feel if someone else was deciding who gets to keep your property, or who gets to care for your […]

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Parents of disabled children face daunting financial preparation

Read original article here from the Globe and Mail As a mother of three children, including one with a severe developmental disability, Laurie Geschke admits that looking into the future […]

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Impact – Ability

The desire of most people I’ve met in the disability community is to make the world a better place for people with disability. As a corollary most also realize that […]

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Basic Income for People with Disabilities

By Jane Dyson, Executive Director of Disability Alliance BC A Commitment to Progress The government of British Columbia has committed to making BC the most progressive province in Canada for […]

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The Soul of Poverty

What’s to be done about the soul-destroying poverty faced by people with disabilities? Recognition would be a good place to start. Recognition that one of the biggest barriers facing people with […]

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The World's Mine Oyster

By Doreen Shaw If, as William Shakespeare said, “The World’s Mine Oyster“, then the Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP) is most definitely The Pearl encapsulated within The Oyster. Kenyon is […]

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Tips for Investing your RDSP

By Trevor Philp, Senior Manager, Registered Products & Managed Solutions at BMO Global Asset Management Investing in your RDSP When it comes to starting a Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP), there is […]

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Reaching First Nation and Aboriginal Communities

By Victor Lethbridge After several years of presenting information about the Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP) to First Nations and Aboriginal communities, I’ve recognized a few common issues. Despite being […]

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