Does anyone have any idea how to watch the Paralympics (in Canada) or is this an impossibility?

Had no idea it wouldn't be broadcast on CTV etc. Even the highlights will do!

I hear you, appalling that it isn't broadcast on mainstream TV in either Canada or the USA.

We have watched some on AMItv. It also has audio description for the blind which is rather good. So we end up with the sound turned down, closed captions on and the audio description. It's a bit like watching cricket on TV and listening to the radio commentary

If you search the forums for watching British TV, there's a number of ways you can do so (well, over the net). That way you could watch the highlights/day's action videos from Channel 4's paralympic website. There's a ton of stuff there.

Thanks for the tips.

Still, it seems a shame there isn't even a 5-minute segment of the day's highlights on TV. It's like they're not even happening.

The problem, for me, with watching TV over the net is that closed captionning/subtitles are not provided. I'm a deaf old bat.

Assuming you use one of the methods people use here (vpn or other if outside of the UK) for watching Channel4's replay stuff - they do go some way to help out there.

It's not perfect and complete by any means but their player offers a 'live text commentary' that gives you all the pertinent info on what's going on at the bottom right of the picture. The player has a timeline so that you can drag to any point in time and even shows the medals and little flags along the timeline. You can hover over these so that you can see what happened when and jump to whatever floats your boat there so to speak.

Anyway, it is a shame that there isn't more coverage of this abroad. The games have been fantastic - watched tons myself each day.

Absolutely disgusting that none of the Canadian or USA networks have seen fit to cover this important & poignant event.

Not really.

The networks cover stuff that people will watch (adverts). The countries dominating the medals are those that were expected to. The USA and Canada were never going to do spectacularly well. Folk in the US were not going to watch the likes of China, UK, Australia, Russia and Ukraine beating them.

Still struggling to understand how a bloke with no arms can set a new world record for the backstroke. Very impressive and I admire the man hugely but I find myself wondering how he put his trunks on.

You can watch it between 10 PM and 11PM on TSN 2 most nights.

I have not watched it but have seen it on the schedule.

I think people would watch it here. What a terrific audience.

Poignant??

The model of the noble and brave cripple is rather disliked these days and yet watching the paralympics does make some uncomfortable feelings surface. All the more reason why these should be shown so that people with visible disabilities become part of the norm, until we can "see the person and not the disability". You know, instead of fighting that urge to stare and looking everywhere but at the scarred face, or flippered arm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0nMt...ature=youtu.be

Obviously his attempts to cut people off from disability benefits is going down a storm.