Outlook on Radio Western

About Outlook on Radio Western

Inspired by The Canadian Federation of the Blind, Outlook is a show about accessibility, advocacy, and equality. Hosted by two siblings who were born blind. Heard on 94.9 Radio Western every Monday from 11 AM to noon.

Publisher

Outlook on Radio Western

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Jul 2016

Latest episode

10 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

360 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Oct 2026

   Outlook 2026-06-29 - Oh The Possibilities, A Late June Mixed Bag Monday

   We’re playing a new game called: Human Or AI Image Description, guess which (hint, it’s REAL tough) and a Youtube channel was proposed called: Watch With Oyster where you could watch her reactions to Disney films with animals which is pretty much all of them and pretty much the best, sweetest thing in the world. So, as you can tell, the possibilities for this final June episode, a mixed bag, are endless. This week on Outlook, BF Barry is joining us from the speaker in the corner, back in Northern Ireland for a bit. We, three, are still together though and discussing not only the screening of the Helen Keller documentary, “Possibilities,” at Carnegie Hall, during what is Keller’s birth month, but also we discuss the concept of open audio description and, because of sister/co-host Kerry having signed up for a summer narrative podcasting class, we talk immersive sound design on things like the BBC radio drama The Archers or the radio retelling of Anne of Green Gables, out on Audible and directed by the actor who played Anne forty years ago on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Speaking of the actor who once played Anne, Kerry describes hearing Megan Follows give the keynote at this year's virtual Annual L.M. Montgomery Conference and she also recently attended a virtual Learning Lab, put on by the Ehlers-Danlos Society to hear from those with lived experience about care models that better work for those impacted, as her and brother/co-host Brian recall what it was like being diagnosed with scoliosis and having to be treated for it when they were younger. We’re talking about this month also being Deafblind Awarenesss Month, Scoliosis Awareness Month, Pride (2SLGBTQIA+), as we head into July and Disability Pride, we remember and describe flags (tactile or no) and especially the design of the Disability Pride Flag and what the colours represent. And oh...yeah, Kerry has a bone to pick with Rick Hansen about accessibility and representation in history at the CN Tower’s Edge Walk experience, but in the meantime...which Disney movie would you like to "watch with Oyster”? And finally Brian wants to thank all who were there, at Supply & Demand, to see him and his band King Orca play their new album live. Check out the Possibilities film trailer we played at the start of the show here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAtNeaxzHew

2. 

   29 Sept 2026

   Outlook 2026-06-22 - Through a Knight‘s Eyes With Cross Eye Comics Founder Doug Knight

   After nearly eight years of doing this, we love it when there’s firsts for this program and our guest this week fits that bill in more than one way. His name makes him sound mid evil, but he has started his own indie comic book publisher Cross Eye Comics. So it is fitting, along with having experience as a tattoo artist. When most teenagers turn sixteen and go for their learner’s permit, Doug Knight got his first tattoo because once having been treated for a brain tumour, the usual teen milestone of getting a driver’s licence wasn’t an option. On this episode of Outlook we’re speaking with artist and comic book creator Doug Knight who joins us from less than an hour north of Toronto as we discuss the fun of navigating alternative forms of transportation, public transport, to travel for the work he does in educating, engaging, and provoking thought with his art. From fine art to public art, painting murals in Ottawa and working with the Museum of Nature to working with the students at the W. Ross Macdonald School for the Blind in Brantford, Doug has received Canadian creative arts grants to further the impact he wants to have on people of all ages through his art practice. He’s a dad, an artist, and he now also works with companies who make art supplies, to test their products for universal design for all possible customers and he’s worked with brands from London, England all the way to Australia. Knight shares with us his achievements, coming from a childhood often spent at the Hospital For Sick Children in Toronto and a lot of his work in the comic book world is inspired originally from his days in hospital, celebrating the doctors in his life he remembers and the brave children who must still go through it. With our own time spent at that hospital as kids in the late nineties, for our kidney transplants, we figure we might very well have passed Doug, going up in the big glass elevator or walking through the cafeteria with our family. This is an episode of taking the negatives and turning it into something good, a piece of art that speaks to someone, a child who can see themselves in a character from the comic book world, but in there he also throws in a few stories involving his low vision way of seeing the world (laugh-about-it-later stories) entering an adult entertainment shop when in Toronto to work on an art project , mistaking it for an arts supplies store or having his paints stolen alongside the Rideau Canal. His latest project is called "Through My Eyes,” water colour paintings of landmarks through his own eyes. Check out more of Doug’s work by going to his website: https://www.crosseyecomics.com/

3. 

   12 Sept 2026

   Outlook 2026-06-15 - Vision Through The Mist with Mistie Hale

   Our guest Mistie says: “I’m the kind of person who…if I don’t know how to do something, I usually know someone who does.” This week on Outlook we’re speaking with first-time guest Mistie Hale of "Vision through the mist a woman’s journey”, someone sister/co-host Kerry found first on Facebook where “face” is right there in the name, but we discuss getting to know people—to looking beyond first appearances and into what makes us all unique, interdependence and intersectionality, and the writer/advocate she has developed into on her social media as a person of colour, who has dealt with childhood cancer and subsequent metastatic breast cancer and heart failure diagnoses. She is broadening into sharing her voice and words of inclusion and acceptance with videos on her page now which is regularly shared several times over by other blind people and advocates online. Straight from Dolly country, Tennessee, Mistie is new to podcast appearances and we’re so glad to have her on as she shares about being born and raised in the state of Tennessee, along with going to a school for the blind in Nashville, bookended by her experiences attending school locally with her sighted peers. Hale tells us about coming to the technology/cellphone/Internet stuff later than many as we three relate on growing up without it all and on adapting along the way. For Mistie, being diagnosed and treated for neuroblastoma as a young child, she learned lessons early in life about adaptation and resilience. She describes the pressure, for example, her and her mother were under, by so-called specialists who seemed to say that Mistie’s only hope for learning blindness skills like braille was for her to attend a school for the blind and how this huge change and culture shock impacted her development and school experience going forward. She describes struggling to fit in at a school for the blind, years into her education, where low expectations were often held for blind children and where she fit in more around the staff, but still became a caretaker, free labor, for younger children at the school. We love all the weather metaphors so go and search her up for stories of trying to find acceptance, whether it’s been in her local church community or in the restaurant environment she now works in - more of her excellent perspective on the winds of change throughout her life as she openly shares her story of adversity through fighting to get her education in learning and literacy and facing discrimination when trying to teach in the School system, as a young single mother/foster parent her years of feeling her way through the homeschooling community while trying to self teach her son who was diagnosed with dyslexia and autism, and now all about her passionate work with rescuing dogs out of her own home. Stories of Mistie, making it on her own at a young age, finding her way through the mist and into the life she has now, both online and and locally in her community. Follow her on Facebook for such informative and personable posts: https://www.facebook.com/p/Vision-through-the-mist-a-womans-journey-100064748376891/

Who has been a guest on Outlook on Radio Western

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• Marie Elise
• Zoe Espinoza
• Linsay Lusyne
• Regan Linton
• Frank Bruni

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5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 53 / 100

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Quality

79

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

68

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