Outlook 2020-11-02 - Tribute to Trailblazing Guru and Outlook Theme Creator Tom Dekker

As we say goodbye to another Blindness Awareness Month and enter the final, uncertain, few months of 2020, on this episode we pay tribute to someone we’re naming most famous Canadian blind person, most well-known across the country anyway. Tom Dekker was one of our first guests, back at the beginning. We’ve decided to replay the thirty-minute episode where we were lucky to get a chance to interview him because that chance is now gone. He was known as the iHabilitation man who loved his guide dog companion. He was our fourth episode, way back when, and we’re talking about “blind politics,” a term he used during our time with him. That’s what he engaged in and we’re honouring him, after his recent sudden death from cancer at age sixty-eight. He’d seen and done a lot, including creating the theme music for this show. He will always be part of what we do. RIP Tom! https://www.remembering.ca/obituary/thomas-dekker-1080581601