Download the Spring 2025 edition of Transition Magazine!

Cover of Spring 2025 edition of Transition. Features two smiling women taking a selfie with a smartphone, with a number of symbols representing different uses of the phone coming up out of the phone.

The Spring 2025 edition of Transition magazine is here!

The theme of this edition is Social Media: Opening the world through visibility, connection and advocacy.

Download it from our website in PDF format here and in text only format here.

Our Transition team is always glad to receive feedback and to consider articles or creative work from our community partners and from people living with a disability.

If you’d like to send along your ideas, we’d love to hear from you: transition@dabc.ca.

Update on the Canada Disability Benefit

Big news! 🎉

Today, Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities, Kamal Khera, announced that regulations for the Canada Disability Benefit (CDB) are complete, and will come into force on May 15th, 2025. The first CDB cheques will be dispersed in July 2025.

Read Minister Khera’s statement here.

The Government has also confirmed that the Disability Tax Credit will be the main prerequisite for the CDB. To learn more, click here to read our blog post from October 2024 “What the Disability Tax Credit means for the Canada Disability Benefit.”

Need help to apply for the Disability Tax Credit? We can help! To learn more, click here.

Plan Institute recently created a website dedicated to the CDB, and it’s a fantastic resource. Check out their page on preparing for the CDB here.

While we still wish that the CDB would put more money into the hands of more people with disabilities in Canada, it is indeed great news that eligible people will be able to benefit from it very soon.

 

Join the City of Vancouver for an update on the City's Accessibility Strategy

Poster for the event that includes a header with a graphic depicting a variety of people with disabilities, the info in the body of the post, and a QR code. Additional text says "If you need support to sign up for this event, please contact Rajpreet at (604) 877-5064" and "vancouver.ca/accessibility The City of Vancouver acknowledges that it is situated on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nation"

The City of Vancouver invites you to their Report Back event to learn more about the Accessibility Strategy and Multi-Year Action Plan.

This event will:

  • Include ASL and Closed Captioning. Let us know if you require any other accommodations for you to successfully participate in the event.
  • Feature the music and art of some members of the disability community.
  • Provide light refreshments.

Roundhouse Community Centre
181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver, BC
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 4:30pm to 6:30pm

Register – Scan the QR code in the poster or email accessibility@vancouver.ca by Tuesday, March 18.