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You already read ABILITIES, Canada’s Lifestyle Magazine for People with Disabilities... but are you also receiving the Canadian Abilities Foundation’s newest publication? It’s full of disability news and information - and it’s free!

The EnableLinker is circulated once a month to thousands of people interested in disability issues. It contains disability-related announcements, upcoming events and chats, humour and classifieds - what a great way to stay plugged in! All you need in order to receive this free electronic newsletter is an e-mail address. To be automatically added to The EnableLinker mailing list and get the latest issue, visit our website: www.enablelink.org/Ezine/enablelinker.htm. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Do you have disability-related items to sell, employment opportunities, or upcoming events of your own? Submit an ad to The EnableLinker’s classifieds section at no charge, by e-mailing enablelinker@enablelink.org. Consider the audience... thousands of people interested in disability issues! (For an even wider market, why not also place your ad in this magazine, for only $10 a line in our classifieds? Send e-mail to able@abilities.ca for more details.)

Here’s what an EnableLinker subscriber in Winnipeg recently wrote to say about the classifieds:
"I was very pleased with my recent purchase of a newer Ricon lift that I discovered advertised in your classified section. I hope the ad I am submitting to your classifieds will provide an equally good experience for one of your other subscribers."


CHATS

Disability chats are hosted once a month on EnableLink. Every chat is dedicated to a specific topic, and they vary widely. Recent chat topics have included Employment, International Issues and Health Care. During our one-hour chats we have been pleased to greet visitors from coast to coast, including the north, British Columbia and the Maritime provinces. Our next chat will be held March 12 at 2:00 p.m. (Eastern Time). The topic will be Sports and Recreation, so drop in and learn more - or share your ideas - about adapted equipment, recreation opportunities and sport development.

The chat room is always open, so feel free to use it for your own disability-related discussions and meetings. Visit www.enablelink.org and click on Chat in the left-hand navigation bar to participate in a chat.


ACCESS GUIDE CANADA

If you haven’t yet visited Access Guide Canada, we encourage you to check it out at www.enablelink.org/agc. With your help, Access Guide Canada (AGC) will be an online directory of accessible restaurants, hotels, parks, attractions and other venues in communities across the country. We love this new resource - because we know how invaluable it can be to have access information when making your travel plans. You will also be able to use AGC to find accessible facilities in your own home community!

We are still collecting information for AGC, and you can help. Have you stayed in an accessible hotel? Visited an accessible restaurant, theatre or place of worship? Done your banking or grocery shopping at an accessible venue? If you have answered yes to any of these, why not volunteer your time, from the comfort of your own home, to submit a listing to AGC? It takes only a moment to log in, then just a few minutes more to input the information. (Or download our user-friendly assessment forms first to help you record the accessibility information in more detail.) You will be helping to enhance the independence of people with disabilities across the country.


HOW TO CONTACT ENABLELINK:
EnableLink, c/o Canadian Abilities Foundation
340 College Street, Suite 650, Toronto, Ontario M5T 3A9
Tel.: (416) 923-1885
Fax: (416) 923-9829
E-mail: info@enablelink.org

We are grateful to the Workers’ Compensation Boards of Canada for their support.