Daily Archives: June 30, 2010

CBC sinks to new low of press release journalism

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Will they correct the misleading story on the wheelchair ramp at Brackley Beach?

Press release journalism results in false story

CBC’s code of journalistic ethics says that “The information conforms with reality and is not in any way misleading or false.” Yet in the case of their June 18th story they claimed Parks Canada had spent $500,000 making Brackley Beach more accessible. Parks Canada spent the money but the beach is not accessible by any reasonable standards.

Will they correct the story or is this another example of the lazy and arrogant news reporting at CBC Charlottetown?  Continue reading →

Nothing about us without us at Parks Canada

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Parks Canada stumbles with half million dollar white elephant at Brackley Beach

Brackley Beach ramp $500,000, 500 feet and not accessible by wheelchair

The new wheelchair accessible ramp at Brackley Beach in the PEI National Park is not accessible. Half a million dollars was wasted on the monstrosity that towers 18 feet in the air and 500 feet long. Parks Canada forgot to include people with disabilities in the design process.

“The fight is between stupidity and the people who make these decisions…they do things without us. They don’t ask our opinion ahead of time.”   Continue reading →

Housing is a human right

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But I’ve been around the housing field for a while and I remember this line:

“All Canadians have the right to adequate housing.”

That is what a Liberal Party Task Force headed up by former Prime Minster Paul Martin said in 1990.

Martin, who left politics in 2008, is in the news again. The new coalition government in the United Kingdom apparently wants to pick the former Finance’s Minister’s brain in order to figure out how to solve their debt/deficit problem.

They’ve got lots of problems in the U.K. that need fixing but I hope when David Cameron’s policy peeps get to talking with Mr Martin they try to connect the dots of deficit reduction strategies and commitments to people’s rights.   Continue reading →