People with visual impairments struggle to buy essentials amid COVID-19 restrictions.

Albertans who are blind and partially sighted are adjusting to limited touch due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

"You can be awful lonely if you're living alone and you are visually impaired, and you're not out and your family doesn't stop to visit you."

If found guilty of the offence, the Halifax Transit driver faces a fine between $500 and $3,000.

"She gave me her hand and I held it," Dontarius Caldwell said.

Jasmin Simpson, who is deaf and legally blind, says the program's current rules force students who take longer to complete their studies because of their disabilities to graduate with considerably more student debt than their able-bodied peers.

The agency is rolling out braille at all of its bus stops, and tactile walking surface indicators at stations across the system next year.

Puppy raisers will be responsible for providing a loving home to a puppy in training, and to help them with obedience and socializing.

Four new guide dogs in training arrived in Regina Sunday afternoon. They came all the way from Australia to serve four people who are blind or partially sighted.

Wade Brown lost his vision completely by age 15. Then he was paralyzed at age 34. Now he is one of Alberta's newest lawyers.