OUR COMMUNITY
Our Community is a documentary series that celebrates the resilience, creativity, and spirit of people who are redefining what inclusion looks like in Canada. Each episode profiles a different group, family, or individual whose lived experience offers a window into the challenges and triumphs within disability, accessibility, youth support, and community empowerment.
Across the series, Mountain Road Productions highlights organizations and everyday champions who are breaking barriers—whether it’s adaptive sports, inclusive workplaces, youth navigating adulthood, or families supporting loved ones with complex needs. The stories are intimate, human, and grounded in real Canadian communities, showing how advocacy and determination can transform lives.
This series offers a heartfelt look at people who refuse to be defined by limitations.
EPISODES BY MOUNTAIN ROAD
The Bucket Brigade
The Bucket Brigade follows the employees of Just Good Compost, a grassroots company based in Almonte, Ontario, that takes food waste and turns it back into compost soil while redefining what inclusive employment looks like.
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Happy Popcorn Company
In this episode of Our Community, we learn about the Happy Popcorn Company, a family-run company that is truly inclusive.
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Boxing without Barriers
Learn more about Boxing Without Barriers, a unique program designed for children, youth and adults with cognitive, developmental, or physical disabilities that teaches the techniques and discipline required to box in a non-contact environment.
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Where’s My Wheelchair
We’ll speak with authors, publishers, writing associations, kids and parents to find out why children with disabilities aren’t being properly represented in children’s literature in Canada, and what is being done to change it.
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Young Carers
Learn more about Young Carers, who are children under the age of 18 in a care-giving role for a parent, grandparent, sibling or relative with a chronic or life-threatening illness, disability, addiction or mental illness, among others.
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Hockey Is Life
Take a deep dive into the history of The Capital City Condors, a hockey team for all abilities, and meet the man who started it all, Jim Stackhouse.
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Different is Beautiful
Pip has Down Syndrome. When Pip was born Tara was shocked, but realized what a gift she was to her and her family, so she started the Happy Soul Project to celebrate the fact that different is beautiful.
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Adulting: Life After High School
What do students with developmental difficulties do when they are no longer part of the educational system? Visit Beyond 21, an organization offering those over 21 a place to thrive and grow socially, physically, emotionally and intellectually.
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Just Kids
Students are given the opportunity to integrate into a school catering to the needs of children of different abilities.
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Music for the Mind
Rock My House is a music school and rehearsal studio, but one of Kevin Eamon’s main focuses is providing an outlet for people from local community-living groups to come in and unleash their inner rock-god.
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