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Ghiz Selling the Farm – Five & 1/2 minutes
strong>December 15th,2008 episode
All the scandal and dirt on PEI
- Premier Ghiz selling the farm
- Minister Richard Brown turns his employees into crooks
- Who called the police – watch out Richard
- Can the Council of the Disabled write a paragraph?
- Wes Sheridan filing for bankruptcy
- Readers speak out on CBC and John Jeffery
and more…
Ghiz takes ball and goes home, mystery woman
Five and 1/2 Minutes - New episode – Dec 3 08
Ghiz takes his ball and goes home
UPEI back in the news
Mystery women on PEI
Media censorship
and more…
The rest of the story.
Not renewing disabled parking sticker
The law is the law.
Letter to the Editor – December 3, 2008
I am not renewing my disabled parking sticker with the PEI Council of the Disabled because I don’t have to. They didn’t earn the $10.
If more people don’t renew they will start paying attention to us and do what we need them to do. It’s a protest vote against their indifference to disabled parking.
PEI Council of the Disabled, don't earn $10
Did you ever hear the Council say people parking in blue zones should be towed away? Or there should be more blue zones. If it wasn’t for stores like Sobey’s, Superstore, Wal-Mart and Home Depot how many disabled spots would there be? The Council doesn’t care.
The PEI Council is not advocating on behalf of Islanders. We hear those stories from the disabled over and over.
The Council didn’t advocate to change the Canada Pension application process. They refused to advocate when Canada Revenue tried to take away the Disability Tax Credit. I worked on those projects with no help from the Council.
The Council refused to advocate with the Binns’ government when he DSP was cutback $1 million.
The final straw was the July 08 Guardian letter supporting the removal of accessible parking on UPEI. They said the maximum distance is 70 metres from the door to the curb when its 50. Then the executive director said whatever the UPEI committee decided was OK.
The law is what matters but to the Council anything you want to do with a disabled person is OK. They are spineless, afraid to speak out in case they lose government funding.
Only the City of Charlottetown and maybe Summerside have given the Council the right to issue permits. The Charlottetown by-law says we need a “permit as issued by the PEI Council of the Disabled or its equivalent.”
Well I’ve got a permit from the Council and I have a disability.
The PEI Highway Traffic Act says the “vehicle prominently displays a valid emblem approved by the Minister” That’s what I have. To make sure I emailed Graham Miner Registrar of Highway Safety. As long as you have a permit, that’s what you need.
I have a permit and it’s good as long as I’m disabled which will be until I die.
Stephen Pate
PEI Disability Alert
Charlottetown, PEI
PS – there’s a funny mistake – somehow I typed Montague in my address. Must have been a slip of the fingers thinking about the old days when I was in Kings County 
UPEI bastion of free speech or Fascism? a challenge to debate.
UPEI Wade MacLauchlan, a challenge to debate disability access
Universities are supposed to be places of higher learning. At UPEI, the management seems to be bastion of right wing bigotry and minority discrimination. I know there are decent people out at UPEI but they are not in control.
So Wade, I challenge you to a public debate on the accessible parking issue at UPEI. To show you what a fair guy I am, I promise not to call you a liar, fascist or bigot at any time during the debate, plus or minus 24 hours.
The Question
Should UPEI provide accessible parking for people with disabilities or not? Should it be 150 meters from the building doors or less than 50 meters?
It’s always good to have a quantifiable question; otherwise the audience can’t determine the truth. The actual questions can be negotiated by teams of question negotiators.
Background
Prime facia, UPEI Board of Governors under the spell of the mesmerizer Wade MacLauchlan has been ignoring its responsibility to uphold the law, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the heritage of Christian charity from St. Dunstan’s by providing accessible parking as close as possible to the buildings.
Rack my brain as I may, there is nothing that justifies taking away accessible parking for people with disabilities except bigotry and discrimination against the disabled. Who would admit to that today?
So here we are almost 6 months from the decision and act that removed the last accessible parking on campus.
What is the Board of Governors doing except stonewalling, a human rights disgrace for all to see. Note to Board – people all over North America have read this blog and wonder what your problem is. Me too.
Is the Board making steps to right the wrong?
Not a chance, they are complaining to the Guardian to stop printing our Letters to the Editor and places like Facebook to have the UPEI parking group removed. All in one week, done at night under the stealth of darkness.
Ohhhh scary scary. That should put and end to free speech.
Get out the brown shirts, burn the books, break the store windows it’s Kristallnacht on PEI.
All right Mr. Big Shot, I challenge you to a public debate over accessible parking at UPEI, at the Duffy amphitheatre.
Your dad Harry MacLauchlan wouldn’t need a debate to solve this issue. He’d be bold enough to talk it out, man to man. He was no coward.
I’ll give you the home ice advantage. You can line up all your best Vice Presidents and professors. It’ll be just you and me under regular debating rules, you get all the bench strength and seconds.
Wade it’s time for a showdown. You know you’re besmirching the name of UPEI throughout the world for no reason. I’d say that is dereliction of duty.
Think you can hold your own with me for 45 minutes in the ring. You’ve got 2 degrees and millions of dollars, staff everything.
I’m just a little guy in a wheelchair with Grade XI and a year at Dalhousie. You could probably debate me to a draw in 30 seconds, on the ropes in 60 seconds, down for the count in 2 minutes.
C’mon or are you afraid of the truth?
Council lacks ethics
Council of Disabled plagiarizes UN statement on Day of Persons with Disabilities
By Stephen Pate
Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
This is the day the politicians and other wind bags proclaim their support for persons with disabilities. The rest of the year they can ignore us.
Marcia Carroll, CEO PEI Council of the Disabled - plagiarist?
Marcia Carroll and the PEI Council of Persons with Disabilities trotted out a fancy opinion piece for the Guardian today which the paper dutifully printed.
The article is plagiarized from the United Nations press release. This is, I’m afraid, the norm for the low ethics of the Council who pretend to advocate on behalf of the disabled. Why low ethics? If you espouse a cause and get paid handsomely to advocate for the disabled, not doing so is unethical.
Ms Carroll should write her own original content but then the Council doesn’t know much about disabilities and says less.
Dare to Compare
UN Statement
Dignity and justice for all of us is the theme of this year’s International Day for Persons with Disabilities, as well as for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Ms Carroll signed opinion
Dignity and justice for all of us is the theme of this year’s International Day for Persons with Disabilities.
What about the disabled on PEI
Carroll goes on to add some of her words to the UN press release and wax eloquent about disability rights all over the world. Meanwhile the Council cannot help students and staff at UPEI with their accessible parking. It is always easier to advocate in the abstract about people far away.
The Council cannot find the time to correct the error filled letter written in support of UPEI’s decision to remove accessible parking, Accessibility Committee made call.
UPEI and President Wade MacLauchlan have pointed to that letter over and over as an endorsement of removing accessible parking from the UPEI campus. The Council’s mistakes are not benign: they hurt the disabled who they are supposed to help.
Carroll says in the letter “Unfortunately not all designated parking spaces are within that 75-metre radius.” The city by-law clearly states the maximum distance is 50 meters. Carroll has been stalling for 5 months on publishing a correction, despite promises she would. I believe it is the Board of the Council who are unethical. Carroll tells me her hands are tied.
The Council’s commitment to disability advocacy is as phony as their signed, plagiarized press release.
How about stepping up to the plate with some real advocacy?
Plagiarism
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was one of the lead developers of the email message. You can blame them for spam.
They say “the UNC Honor Court defines plagiarism as “the deliberate or reckless representation of another’s words, thoughts, or ideas as one’s own without attribution in connection with submission of academic work, whether graded or otherwise.”
Generally in the media, a reporter caught plagiarizing some else’s work is fired.
Intellectual dishonesty
Intellectual dishonesty is at the core of the Council of the Disabled. They want to maintain their $800,000 annual government supplied budget but they don’t want to help us any more than they have to.
I don’t think their worth $10 and I’m not renewing my permit this year.
We have long called for the Council to fulfill its role in PEI’s disability community but they have failed to do so. Islanders with disabilities don’t need rhetoric: we need the Council to do the work it claims as its job.
Thank you Marcia for illustrating how dishonest the Council of Persons with Disabilities has become.
Religious and ethics professors have to believe it
If you’re going to teach a subject, is it a prerequsite that you have an affinity for the topic. I once met an 18th century English prof who hated the novels but needed the work. Guess that explained his/her bad case of personal self-loathing.
This week a religious studies professor at UPEI – you can look it up – demanded angrily to be taken off the mail list. We sure did that in a hurry. Perhaps they could call the wrath of God on us.
Not to worry though, this prof doesn’t believe in religious values.
When I asked very politely why a religious professor wouldn’t want to read about human rights and the needs of the weak and dispossed, here’s what I got for a reply:
“You may inquire and I could reply …”
You will note my request was a polite “inquire” and the response was an enigmatic exercise in semantics. Maybe the prof teaches that topic too.
So I’m left with the quandry and it’s no small one: what does a religious studies professor teach if not Christian, Muslim, or Buddhist love and charity?
Perhaps I’ll take the course in logic in the 21st century next. This life is too confusing. I need more education.
What a miserable day at UPEI today in a wheelchair
Oh it’s rainy and wet outside. Anyone in a wheelchair or walking slow because they have a disability is going to get awful wet at UPEI.
Imagine some students have to go almost 200 yards in a manual wheelchair from the parking lots in the rain to their classes. I wonder why the law says he parking should be as close as possible to the door but not more than 50 meters? Could it be to help those poor souls out?
When you’re wheeling in a chair and its raining, you get awfully wet. The water and slop on the pavement travels up the wheel and soaks your arms and legs. The dirt gets into your face.
It feels like you’re walking on your hands in the puddles or slush. It’s miserable.
Students with disabilities will be wet when they get to class. Last year one of those students got pneumonia and had to drop out. Oh too bad for her: the strong will survive.
Wade MacLaughlan's solution for the disabled?
Why just recently President MacLauchlan was heard to comment on the wisdom of the Eskimos. They used to push the old and disabled out on ice flows to drift away and die. So much easier that way. No need to put in disabled parking, door openers and elevators. All that bother gone.
President MacLaughlan is searching around for someone with a masters in the anthropology of sub-Arctic and Arctic aboriginals to teach a new course next semester, “Ethics and euthanasia.” Most of the Board of Governors has already signed up and the rest will take it or else. Wade has Maxwell’s hammer, figuratively of course.
Maxwell’s Silver Hammer ( may contain graphic cartoon images, definitely contains The Beatles)
This Hour has 5 & 1/2 Minutes
This weeks episode is hot on the trail of the Liberals.
Some of the stories
Dave Carver’s romance with Minister Docherty
Bruce Howatt PEI’s top poker ace
Secret $200 million slush fund,
PEI’s new Price is Right,
It ain’t heavy: it’s a government cheque
Have you seen it?
Guardian, Accessible parking not a reality
Letters to the Editor
The Guardian
Front Page
UPEI reminds me of a stubborn teenager. You can talk to them, reason with them, and try to lay down the law. We all know how stubborn kids can be when they want to do the wrong thing. (Stephen Pate on the lack of accessible parking for the disabled at the University)
On July 4th, 2008 the Guardian (UPEI’s plan to remove designated parking) reported UPEI was removing the last three accessible parking spaces on the inner campus. Those spots are gone and UPEI adamantly insists it is right.
Accessible parking means the spot is less than 50 meters from the door of the building. That is the National Building Code standard and the City of Charlottetown by-law. (Ed: the City does not enforce this by-law consistently)
60% of the blue painted parking spaces at UPEI do not meet the national standard. At UPEI, the only accessible parking is at CARI, the Sports Centre, Murphy, AVC Small Animal Hospital and MacDougall.
This move has reversed three decades in the accommodation of people with disabilities at UPEI. President MacLauchlan stubbornly refuses to budge from that decision.
And now the rest of the story: Changes improve wheelchair accessibility at Main Building on UPEI campus
November 7, 2008
The Guardian printed the story that follows, which is essentially public relations puffery on the part of the UPEI. We submitted a comment about 6 AM and re-submitted.
The Guardian chose not to print our comment.
All our comments are signed. This is the first time the Guardian refused to print our comments. We are amazed at their censorship. We assume we are too close to revealing the truth for the Guardian’s tastes.
And here is the rest of the story.
It’s a great photo op at UPEI, who recently took away disabled parking. That Myrtle Jenkins Smith is good on the public relations and mopping up patronage money. Yup, no money for the DSP, a dog slow report – like molasses uphill in winter – and lots of money for MJS.
Look – there’s Currie as a pretty face. He didn’t do a thing at UPEI. He just looks good standing tall with three paraplegics. I figured out this morning who Currie reminds me of – check This Week Has Five & a Half Minutes next week for the answer.
Oh and Brian Doucette who refused to say word one about the DSP $1 million cutback 2 years. He must have found his water wings.
And Paul Cudmore who the PEI Canadian Paraplegic told me in writing they haven’t seen in 10 years. Look out boys – he’s next to you. Paul is the champion of you can drive in chair, why park close at UPEI.
Quite a crew. UPEI took 1 year to build a sports field – 7 years to build a wheelchair ramp. That’s progress.
Other reader comments follow the story.
KATHERINE HUNT
The Guardian
The 154-year-old Main Building on the UPEI campus is now more wheelchair-accessible as part of a seven-year implementation plan to make the campus more accessible to those with disabilities.
You can’t get there from anywhere: photo op at UPEI
The photo-op in the Guardian today improve wheelchair accessibility at Main Building on UPEI campus has the government PR machine in full swing.
Despite the hoopla, students and staff with disabilities have accessible parking at less than 30% of the campus.
“Field Of Dreams” coined the phrase “If you build it they will come”. True but they also built a road to the field so people could get there.
The other parking is outside the legal boundaries for accessible parking and the lots are empty. People with disabilities are staying away from UPEI in droves. Perhaps that’s President MacLauchlan’s plan.
Social Services and Seniors Minister Currie, just another pretty face?, and Charlene Stevenson and Brian Doucette of PEI CPA and Paul Cudmore of PEI Accessibility Committee (Guardian Photo)
Eureka- we just figured out who Currie reminds us of – check out next weeks episode of This Hour Has Five and Half Minutes.
This Hour Has Five & 1/2 Minutes – November 4, 2008
The new episode is up.
Highlights
Obama and Civil Rights
Headlines – Ghiz in China, Currie burns his way through Prince and Kings Counties
Take this job and shove it – please Minister Gail Shea
Pete from Peakes on millionaires
and more
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Too much education makes you stupid and pride keeps you there
In 1965 a psych prof at Dalhousie said “You go to school for 12 years to open your mind and university for 4 years to close it.”
Now we’re not saying that’s always true but some of the dumbest people we know have three degrees.
Like UPEI President Wade MacLauchlan. Umpteen degrees but he can’t use a tape measure. Can’t step off 50 meters and see how far it gets him from the phoney blue parking spots at UPEI.
Can’t read the City by-law on disabled parking despite his fancy law degree at Yale. Maybe he was playing poker and gliding through like George Bush.
Even George W. Bush likes people with disabilities. He just signed into law 1,100 pages of improvements to the Americans with Disabilities Act this fall. His dad enacted the first ADA. Those Bushes may be rich but they seem to respect people with disabilities.
Oh UPEI we stand on guard for thee, the adventures of Chucky the Beaver
Oh yeah Canada. Would Chucky the beaver be allowed to attend UPEI? Not with crutches.
The other day I was eavesdropping outside the Registrar’s office, hiding behind a plant. It was a big plant and I’m a small beaver when squatting down. I was trying to learn what motivates the Board of Governors. I was also contemplating chewing the stem of the palm tree in front of me.
Inside the Governors were having a meeting.
I couldn’t hear much until they started singing. Was that O Canada? The tune sounded like it.
I rose patriotically to my feet, er flipper tail, from behind the palm tree, thus revealing my secret service position. The secretary stared nervously.
Disabled people must be a priority
October 21, 2008
The Journal Pioneer
Editor,
I am writing in regard to Stephen Pate’s letter, “Return disable parking to UPEI” about UPEI taking out the disabled parking spaces to make them into parking places for truckers.
I agree with Stephen’s letter that they should put them back in.
The disabled people are much more important than the truckers. The disabled shouldn’t have so far to go to get where they need to be.
I write this in hope that they put the disabled parking places back where they once were.
Nicole Clements,
O’Leary
50,000 videos 9 million viewers
October 16th, 2008
Thursday we passed our 50,000th viewer on YouTube.
The Disability Alert story has been seen by 9 million readers and viewers.
That doesn’t even touch the secondary sites that re-publish the videos and articles.
Those are both phenomenal achievements measured only in your interest and enjoyment. Thank you very much for your support for returning again and again to these pages.
Thanks to Michael LeClair and Trish Clarkin who help so much with the videos and many other things. Thanks to all the volunteers and those unnammed and unsung heros, to the media who cover our stories and to my family for putting up with me writing so much.
I do this to help those who cannot help themselves due to life’s little gift of disability and for no other reason or gain.
There is so much more to do and we’ll have fun doing it.
I am humbled and encouraged by your support. Thanks again.
Note: counts refer to story counts, clicks, and views not unique viewers and readers since many people return to our sites.
President MacLauchlan a god walking among men
UPEI President Wade MacLaughlan, is he a god walking among men
We believe it is unconscionable to take away accessible parking at UPEI.
There is a need for more than 100 accessible parking spaces on the inner campus at UPEI and they removed the last three spaces in September.
We ask President Wade MacLauchlan: what right do you have under Canadian law and the United Nations Charter on disabilities to take away accessible parking at UPEI? Can you defy the National Building Code which is adopted on PEI?
UPEI says PEI building codes don’t apply
UPEI President Wade MacLauchlan, let them walk 200 meters?
At Future Shop today I ran into a member of the UPEI accessibility committee who proceeded to berated me for attacking UPEI’s disability policies. A quad himself, he has a power wheel chair and parking distances greater than 50 meters are not an issue.
I asked him if he had verified the distances from the blue and non-accessible parking we published and he hadn’t. Asked why, he told me the National Building Code and the City of Charlottetown By-Laws did not apply to UPEI.
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Golden gardens of exclusion
Gardens of brass, plaques to founders ring campus excluding disabled? (CBC Photo)
UPEI has dedicated the golden quadrangle to gardens of brass. Widely spaced plaques to its founders ring the area. To make sure no one gets close to building doors, traffic barricades have been erected.
Parking pilons keep disabled off campus, easy in - easy out (LeClair photo)
Only 28% of UPEI is accessible
Not much accessible parking at UPEI
Thirteen of UPEI’s buildings are inaccessible to people with disabilities whereas only 5 buildings are accessible, that is 72% are inaccessible. That is primarily because only 38% of the parking spaces are accessible.
Only 15 of the blue painted parking spaces are actually accessible under building codes adopted by Charlottetown and part of the National Building Code. There are 40 blue spaces with a wheelchair sign. That is 38% of the blue parking is legally accessible.
The standard is the parking should be as close as possible to the door but no further than 50 meters. The furthest parking to building distance is 170 meters. The Charlottetown By-Law contains this rule at section is section 4.43.
Return disabled parking to UPEI – Admit the mistake and make it right
September 24th, 2008
The Journal Pioneer & The Eastern Graphic
Editor,
When politicians and community leaders make a mistake, it’s best to admit it and fix the problem as quickly as possible. Remember Richard Nixon who lost the presidency of the United States through lies and cover-up.
Canada in the dark compared with US Americans with Disabilities Act.
Signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act. President George H.W. Bush (center) is flanked by Evan Kemp, Chairman, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (left) and Justin Dart, Chairman, President
By Stephen Pate
<em>While Canada prides itself on being champion of human rights, the United States under Presidents George H Bush and George W Bush has done more to advance disability human rights. Canada continues to harass the weak and disabled with a system from which other groups such as the gays have broken free.</em>
When President George Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1991, Jean Chrétien said Canadians didn’t need the ADA in Canada. He was wrong. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms was not enough to protect gays and it’s not enough to protect Canadians with disabilities.
Is it OK to say cripple?
Jesus said “You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!
By Stephen Pate
Since I was quoted on camera by CTV using the word “cripple”, some have questioned the political correctness of that statement. It is perfectly acceptable for a person with a disability to use the term “cripple” in the proper context.
In the CTV clip, I said “Cobblestones or cripples?
If the University of Fraser Valley can fix a mistake, why not UPEI
If the University of Fraser Valley can correct itself why not UPEI. Recently UFV took away accessible parking spots near a building and put them further away.
Story Ostensibly for service vehicle parking.
This story is almost a carbon copy of taking the last parking spots from UPEI campus.
University promises to fix problem after student finds special stalls reserved for service vehicles
Abbotsford Mission Times
Marcia Downham, The Times
Published: Friday, September 12, 2008
Brandon Langhjelm was looking forward to starting his summer school semester, but when he arrived and headed for his usual parking spot he became confused and found himself in a life-threatening situation.
Liberal Millionaires Club
The only way that President Wade MacLauchlan could get away with civil rights and human rights abuses is if the PEI Provincial Government is inept, corrupt or both.
Here’s a peek at how they spend their time downtown.
We Interrupt This Program
UPEI President Wade MacLauchlan has innovative final solution to disabled parking crisis.
Are lawyers thick or dishonest
President Wade MacLauchlan, UPEI, no legal memory
Accommodation for workers and student at UPEI would be different for each disability and each person. It’s bad logic for UPEI to argue that all spaces had to accessible and fair.
Fairness is not a concept in accommodation. What’s fair for someone with a van and electric wheelchair is not fair for someone who has a walking disability.
He shoulda quit while he’s ahead
Timing is everything. And quitting is the ultimate act of timing, knowing when to leave. Should you go when people still love you or should you go when my best before date is past and there’s a smell in the fridge.
In March 2008, His Lordship Wade of Stanhope told the Bored of Governors he was checking out the retirement homes in the Bahamas. His first idea was his best because now he’s up to his butt in wheelchairs with no way out.
We’re not all the same
Woman in power chair, not everyone uses one, Auto Adapt photo
People with disabilities are not all alike and the accommodation they need to go to work or school is different. Ryan’s comment on the story You Really Hit A Nerve makes good points. Thanks for your comment Ryan.
You really hit a nerve
In response to the UPEI name hi-jacking story, a friend wrote: “You must have really hit a nerve Stephen”
Of course I hit a nerve. The powerful oligarchy at UPEI in the person of his Lordship Wade MacLauchlan does not like to be humiliated on TV across the country. The CTV story last week was just too much. It showed MacLauchlan to be the autocratic liar he is. (If liar is too strong, please substitute “person who makes disingenuous statements.”)
Is UPEI resorting to thievery?
Wade MacLauchlan, President of UPEI wanted for property theft along with abuse of the disabled?
UPEI’s attempt to exlude the disabled from the inner-campus took a new all time low as it may have consorted with Paul Cudmore to hijack Disability Alert’s website.
This week Cudmore, a member of the Access-Ability Committee at UPEI and confidante of President Wade MacLauchlin, set up a mirror website called “Disability Alert”. At this site, he purports to set the record straight. Mostly he engages in preaching like an Uncle Tom about how wonderful UPEI is. The record speaks volumes in the opposite.
Wade MacLauchlan the doctor of pain
Wade MacLauchlan, PHd
UPEI President Wade MacLauchlan decided to remove parking for disabled people. “Let them walk further” he was heard to say.
On the first day of the no-disabled parking regime, one employee experienced pain walking home and required medication.
Civil Rights violations at UPEI
American Civil Rights leaders: (top left) W.E.B. DuBois, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King
Summary
Discrimination against people with disabilities at the University of PEI is similar to the exclusion of blacks at US colleges prior to the Civil Rights Act. The discrimination is physical exclusion by the removal of a necessary physical accommodation, despite common practice. Statistics show a demand of 150 parking places whereas the University is removing the last 3. The exclusion is contrary to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. UPEI risks public exposure as Jim Crow university.
Cobblestones or cripples, which at UPEI
CTV News coverage of UPEI removing disabled parking from the inner campus.
Reports say the story was carried from Atlantic Canada to Alberta.
Say it ain’t so
Wade MacLauchlan, President UPEI
Dear Wade MacLauchlan, President of UPEI
This is a black day in the history of UPEI, PEI and disability rights.
If you are truly removing the disabled parking on the inner campus then UPEI has the distinction of being the only reference I can find of this regressive behavior.
Where is the disabled parking asks singer’s grandmother.
Last week at Brennan’s for the pizza, a woman at the next table asked me “Where did all the disabled parking go at UPEI?”
Removed by Wade MacLauchlan. MacLauchlan’s compassion and understanding knows no bounds except for helping those with disabilities get to their destination.
Sam Walton could run UPEI better
Sam Walton, founder Wal-Mart If Sam Walton visited the Charlottetown Wal-Mart and saw the paint was gone from the disabled parking, he would have fixed it right away. When Wade MacLauchlan, President of UPEI, sees blue paint on parking spots for people with disabilities, he wants the paint removed.Wade MacLauchlan, President UPEI
Sam Walton the founder of Wal-Mart was a hands-on manager. He liked to visit the each store every month to check the books and inspect the stores for cleanliness. The maintenance crew would follow him fixing the problems. If the disabled parking spots needed painting, they got painted.
Walton speaking to Wal-Mart store staff
Cows shown the front door
People take the rear
I saw Myrtle Jenkins Smith working inside the building for this event. Perhaps she had another contract to sort out disability issues during Old Home Week.
We ought to have and Islanders with Disabilities Act to protect us from the abuse at the Charlottetown Driving Park, at the University of PEI, and everywhere else.SP
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Editor:
I was just wondering if anyone could tell us who had the brainy idea to put a cow barn at the front door of the Civic Centre during Old Home Week?
We ought to have and Islanders with Disabilities Act to protect us from the abuse at the Charlottetown Driving Park, at the University of PEI, and everywhere else. SP
Removing parking limits accessibility
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
August 25, 2008
Editor:
(This letter was printed essentially the same in the Journal Pioneer, West Prince Graphic and Eastern Graphic)
Arguments have been put forward that the decision to remove accessible parking from the UPEI campus is an improvement in accessibility.
UPEI disabled parking spots to be removed in September 2008
Simple logic tells us that reasoning is wrong. Forcing people with a disability to walk further is not better for them: it’s worse.
Putting distance between them
The Journal Pioneer
August 21, 2008
Editor,
Arguments have been put forward that the decision to remove accessible parking from the UPEI campus is an improvement in accessibility.
Simple logic tells us that reasoning is wrong. Forcing people with a disability to walk farther is not better for them, it’s worse.
Grover understands near and far
Only a pawn in their game
To understand the problems of the disabled on PEI one must look at the underlying relationships of the people who feed off the disability industry.
These people are often in positions of trust and power. They make the public appearance of being there for people with disabilities. When their power and prestige is threatened, however they fight back.
Myrtle Jenkins Smith - often the mastermind behind lack of progress on disabilities
This summer the issue of accessible parking came up at UPEI. This seems like a simple issue. However, the PEI Canadian Paraplegic Association has a member on the UPEI Access-Ability committee and they are blocking progress. There is more.
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Removing disabled parking is wrong – disabled don’t live in Disney World
Letters to the Editor
Eastern Graphic
West Prince Graphic
Arguments have been put forward that the decision to remove accessible parking from the UPEI campus is an improvement in accessibility.
Simple logic tells us that reasoning is wrong. Forcing people with a disability to walk further is not better for them: it’s worse.
Writer defends the indefensible
By Stephen Pate
The opinions expressed in Paul Cudmore’s letter in the Guardian are not true. They are one-sided and lack balance.
Cudmore holds that UPEI is a beacon of accessibility and disability tolerance while the rest of PEI is a wasteland. That is simply not true.
There are places on PEI that are accessible and others that aren’t. In some ways UPEI is accessible but the new parking rules are not accessible.
