| # | Name | Comments |
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| 51 | Anonymous | |
| 52 | ron hackett | |
| 53 | Anonymous | People go to CNIB in order to try out the products, e.g. magnifing glasses. They also get a better idea of what products are out there for everyday use. |
| 54 | Anonymous | |
| 55 | Jeff J. A. Dubois | Although it has been some time since the CNIB closed its store at the Ottawa District Office, my feelings towards the organization's decision to close the stores have not changed.
There once was a time when I visited the organization's office between two and four times a year. I was acquainted with a number of staff and volunteers and would take the time to check out any new items in the store.
Occasionally I'd even bump into another client that I had lost touch with and we'd even share a coffee or a tea and chat about what was happening in our respective lifes.
I could count the number of times on my hands that I've been to the CNIB's Ottawa office since it decided to move from its very convenient downtown MacLeod Street office to its new and every inaccessible location on Prince of Wales Drive.
And since the technical aids store closed in the Ottawa office I have not been to the local CNIB office, nor do I have any reason to do so.
There was a time when the CNIB seemed to be a service-based organization where, in effect, it seemed to be oriented towards providing a variety of service to its clients.
From my perspective this no longer seems to be the case. The organization seems to have morphed into an arcane bureaucracy whose mandate seems to be surviving as an organization as opposed to serving the client base it purports to represent.
Perhaps I'm getting more cynical as I approach half a century but I'm finding more and more that there are fewer reasons to remain associated with the organization and even fewer reasons to visit th local CNIB office. |
| 56 | Anonymous | |
| 57 | steve lavallee | |
| 58 | Mike Winegarden | |
| 59 | Hans Last | |
| 60 | Rod Barkley | You would think that an agency whose purpose is to serve the needs of the blind and visually impaired population of this country would understand the needs of its clients to be able to have a hands-on experience when purchasing products. It is not as if we can all just open up a picture of a product on a web site or crack open a catelogue and see that "oh yeah that is what I am looking for" and then order it. We have a visual impairment remember and many of us need to actually touch things to know if it is what we want to be purchasing. the other issue is the shipping charge and not the actual fact that there is one but that you end up paying for something to be shipped just to find out that it wasn't what you thought it was because you couldn't actually view it in the manner in which you need to and then have to pay to ship it back again just to have to turn around and pay once again to have hopefully the correct one shipped a second time. When you stop and think about it you could end up paying more in shipping charges than the actual product is worth. Also the last time I checked the N in CNIB stood for national meaning servicing people nationally and nowhere in the title do I see a T for Toronto only. |
| 61 | Anonymous | |
| 62 | ryan rosler | |
| 63 | Robert Elliott | The world exists beyond Toronto. Not everyone is able to use a computer well enough to access online stores. Why charge shipping -- when with a local CNIB store -- I can go in and try the products, talk to staff about them and I often used to see other items that I would purchase as well. In Ottawa, the store is gone -- and so is the service. The store staff were not always knowledgeable, but by being in the same bldg as local CNIB -- answers could often be found.
Centralising the CNIB stores the best way to introduce products for the blind -- especially older people or those who are not very computer literate. Plus -- shipping costs add to the price of the products. There was always a catalogue where store staff could help you find something that might be helpful. |
| 64 | Claudette | |
| 65 | Claudette | |
| 66 | Rudie Toroian | It is very sad that CNIB is pulling from the blind and just leaving the blind behind. Question, has the management of CNIB forgotten what their motos were? If so, shame, shame shame! |
| 67 | Anonymous | As a blind person, there is nothing worse than a place like Canadian Tire where most everything is wrapped in plastic and you can't see what you are buying. I think that it is very important for the store to stay open. It is tough enough knowing what you are getting without looking at it. Furthermore, it is much easier to ask questions about an item if one can stand there and show someone else what you are asking about. |
| 68 | Mich Verrier | |
| 69 | Ellen Faustman | |
| 70 | Anonymous | |
| 71 | Anonymous | |
| 72 | Anonymous | |
| 73 | Anonymous | |
| 74 | Anonymous | |
| 75 | Stephen Mckinney | |
| 76 | Anonymous | |
| 77 | Anonymous | |
| 78 | Anonymous | |
| 79 | Anonymous | yes this store should remain open! |
| 80 | vicky stacknick | |
| 81 | Sue Moline | |
| 82 | Mike Read | |
| 83 | Mike Read | |
| 84 | Anonymous | |
| 85 | Lynda Parkinson | |
| 86 | Craig Aucoin | |
| 87 | Susan Wren | |
| 88 | Anonymous | |
| 89 | Kasia MAchelak | |
| 90 | Brian Baird | |
| 91 | Christine | I know this place did alot for my mother, of whom has passed this previous July. Why take away someplace that is so vital to so many? |
| 92 | Bill Coe | |
| 93 | Anonymous | The CNIB has proved instrumental in one of my dearest freinds succesful adaptation to her gradual but devastating blindness due to Diabetes. I would regard any reduction in CNIB's services to be a social injustice and severe tradgedy. |
| 94 | Kerri | these stores are an invaluable resource to visually impaired individuals and those wishing to buy gifts for this group of people. |
| 95 | Anonymous | |
| 96 | Kathleen Moore | |
| 97 | Anonymous | |
| 98 | Donna Burch | |
| 99 | Anonymous | |
| 100 | Victor Andres | |