Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago
Joeita previews Season 5 of AMI-tv's "Postcards from..." with the show’s new host: Author & Artist Christa Couture. Christa discusses her travels to various parts of Canada, the challenges of travelling with a prosthetic, and the joy of exploring new places with all 5 senses. #disability #travel
Highlights:
• Opening Remarks (00:00)
• Introducing Christa Couture – Writer, Musician, Broadcaster (01:19)
• About AMI-tv’s “Postcards From…” (03:23)
• Season 5 Travel Locations (04:37)
• Drumheller, the Dinosaur Capital of North America (05:30)
• Navigating Rugged Terrain with a Prosthetic (08:40)
• Bringing Attention to Accessibility Barriers (12:26)
• Prairie Oysters & Testy Festy (13:42)
• Dawson City & Whistler (16:36)
• Learning to Travel More Accessibly (18:09)
• Accessibility in Transportation (19:58)
• Unpacking the Suitcase Strategy (21:34)
• Travelling with Small Children (22:54)
• The Ultimate Souvenir (24:01)
• Show Close (25:55)
Guest Bio:
Christa Couture is an award-winning performing and recording artist, non-fiction writer and broadcaster. She is also proudly Indigenous, queer, disabled and a mom. Her sixth recording, Safe Harbour, was released March 2020. Her writing has been published in Room, Shameless and Augur magazines and cbc.ca. As a speaker and storyteller, she has addressed audiences for The Walrus Talks, CBC's DNTO, Moses Znaimer's ideaCity and Imaginate in Port Hope, ON. She is a frequent contributor to CBC Radio's Now or Never and The Next Chapter, and host of AMI-tv’s “Postcards From…” accessible travel series.
Watch "Postcards From..." on AMIPlus.ca -
amiplus.ca/m/0/episode?seriesId=qvZHiKIn
Find Music from Christa Couture on Bandcamp -
christacouture.bandcamp.com
Follow Christa Couture on Facebook:
facebook.com/officialchristacouture
Christa Couture's Book - How to Lose Everything: A Memoir
douglas-mcintyre.com/products/9781771622622
Christa Couture has come to know every corner of grief—its shifting blurry edges, its traps, its pulse of love at the centre and the bittersweet truth that sorrow is a powerful and wise emotion.
From the amputation of her leg as a cure for bone cancer at a young age to her first child’s single day of life, the heart transplant and subsequent death of her second child, the divorce born of grief and then the thyroidectomy that threatened her career as a professional musician, How to Lose Everything delves into the heart of loss. Couture bears witness to the shift in perspective that comes with loss, and how it can deepen compassion for others, expand understanding, inspire a letting go of little things and plant a deeper feeling for what matters. At the same time, Couture's writing evokes the joy and lightness that both precede and eventually follow grief, as well as the hope and resilience that grow from connections with others.
"How to Lose Everything" series on CBC Gem:
gem.cbc.ca/how-to-lose-everything
How to Lose Everything is an Indigenous series of animated short films that explore personal stories of loss. The five films’ stories span nations, languages, and perspectives on heartache.
More from Christa Couture: http://linktr.ee/christacouture
About The Pulse
On The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.
Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights.
The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio and is available as a podcast on your favourite platform. For more information, visit amiplus.ca/m/0/episode?seriesId=81331440-8e73-4b5b-aff1-1e8ca4a85790&app-config=%2Fc%2Fpodcasts
Follow Joeita on Twitter: twitter.com/joeitagupta
Like the Pulse on Facebook: facebook.com/the.pulse.ami
Subscribe to this channel: youtube.com/channel/UCpSCygsB9AFBhl_mhK86C6g?sub_confirmation=1
About AMI
AMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI’s vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal.
Learn more at AMI.ca
Connect on Twitter twitter.com/AccessibleMedia
On Instagram @accessiblemediainc
On Facebook at @AccessibleMediaInc
On TikTok @accessiblemediainc
Email feedback@ami.ca
Joeita previews Season 5 of AMI-tv's "Postcards from..." with the show’s new host: Author & Artist Christa Couture. Christa discusses her travels to various parts of Canada, the challenges of travelling with a prosthetic, and the joy of exploring new places with all 5 senses. #disability #travel
Highlights:
• Opening Remarks (00:00)
• Introducing Christa Couture – Writer, Musician, Broadcaster (01:19)
• About AMI-tv’s “Postcards From…” (03:23)
• Season 5 Travel Locations (04:37)
• Drumheller, the Dinosaur Capital of North America (05:30)
• Navigating Rugged Terrain with a Prosthetic (08:40)
• Bringing Attention to Accessibility Barriers (12:26)
• Prairie Oysters & Testy Festy (13:42)
• Dawson City & Whistler (16:36)
• Learning to Travel More Accessibly (18:09)
• Accessibility in Transportation (19:58)
• Unpacking the Suitcase Strategy (21:34)
• Travelling with Small Children (22:54)
• The Ultimate Souvenir (24:01)
• Show Close (25:55)
Guest Bio:
Christa Couture is an award-winning performing and recording artist, non-fiction writer and broadcaster. She is also proudly Indigenous, queer, disabled and a mom. Her sixth recording, Safe Harbour, was released March 2020. Her writing has been published in Room, Shameless and Augur magazines and cbc.ca. As a speaker and storyteller, she has addressed audiences for The Walrus Talks, CBC's DNTO, Moses Znaimer's ideaCity and Imaginate in Port Hope, ON. She is a frequent contributor to CBC Radio's Now or Never and The Next Chapter, and host of AMI-tv’s “Postcards From…” accessible travel series.
Watch "Postcards From..." on AMIPlus.ca -
amiplus.ca/m/0/episode?seriesId=qvZHiKIn
Find Music from Christa Couture on Bandcamp -
christacouture.bandcamp.com
Follow Christa Couture on Facebook:
facebook.com/officialchristacouture
Christa Couture's Book - How to Lose Everything: A Memoir
douglas-mcintyre.com/products/9781771622622
Christa Couture has come to know every corner of grief—its shifting blurry edges, its traps, its pulse of love at the centre and the bittersweet truth that sorrow is a powerful and wise emotion.
From the amputation of her leg as a cure for bone cancer at a young age to her first child’s single day of life, the heart transplant and subsequent death of her second child, the divorce born of grief and then the thyroidectomy that threatened her career as a professional musician, How to Lose Everything delves into the heart of loss. Couture bears witness to the shift in perspective that comes with loss, and how it can deepen compassion for others, expand understanding, inspire a letting go of little things and plant a deeper feeling for what matters. At the same time, Couture's writing evokes the joy and lightness that both precede and eventually follow grief, as well as the hope and resilience that grow from connections with others.
"How to Lose Everything" series on CBC Gem:
gem.cbc.ca/how-to-lose-everything
How to Lose Everything is an Indigenous series of animated short films that explore personal stories of loss. The five films’ stories span nations, languages, and perspectives on heartache.
More from Christa Couture: http://linktr.ee/christacouture
About The Pulse
On The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.
Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights.
The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio and is available as a podcast on your favourite platform. For more information, visit amiplus.ca/m/0/episode?seriesId=81331440-8e73-4b5b-aff1-1e8ca4a85790&app-config=%2Fc%2Fpodcasts
Follow Joeita on Twitter: twitter.com/joeitagupta
Like the Pulse on Facebook: facebook.com/the.pulse.ami
Subscribe to this channel: youtube.com/channel/UCpSCygsB9AFBhl_mhK86C6g?sub_confirmation=1
About AMI
AMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI’s vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal.
Learn more at AMI.ca
Connect on Twitter twitter.com/AccessibleMedia
On Instagram @accessiblemediainc
On Facebook at @AccessibleMediaInc
On TikTok @accessiblemediainc
Email feedback@ami.ca
