Human Rights at UPEI

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.

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“This Hour Has Five & ½ Minutes” was the #8 news video on YouTube October 29, 2008

Comments from viewers were

“Smooth job, keep up the good work”
“Bravo”
“Ha ha! Awesome”
“It was great. I laughed and laughed”
“Take me off your mailing list”

New Promo

Catch “This Hour Has Five & ½ Minutes” and know the buzz.

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Pilot episode

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  • Headlines – like never before
  • Premier Ghiz says don’t worry be happy
  • UPEI Priceless – remix
  • Pete from Peakes – commentary
  • Alanis Morissette – what’s going on behind the scenes

Not Just the News – the whole story

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.

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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 views on YouTube strong.

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.

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?

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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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