Archive for August 27th, 2008
Cows shown the front door
People take the rear
This is typical of what goes on with disability access on PEI. The new cut-outs on Queen Street are harder to cross than the old ones. Wade MacLauchlan at UPEI removes all on-campus disability parking and puts it further away.
Not only did they take away the disabled parking at Old Home Week, they now call it Handicap Parking. We haven’t seen that one since the 70’s. Handicapped is a negative term that predates disabled and is right up there with crippled in terms of stigmatizing people with disabilities.
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
