Category Archives: UPEI

This is a Bourgeois town, such a bourgeois town

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Bourgeois Greg Clayon immortalized on YouTube

Bourgeois Greg Clayton immortalized on CTV video

Just another rant against the middle class and mediocre echelons of Charlottetown

Some idiot said the reason why UPEI wouldn’t tell me they were going to paint some disabled spots is because I’m too hard to get along with.

If that’s true, too bad. But it’s really just an excuse for UPEI’s disability bigotry.

Try feeling some empathy for the kids with disabilities trying to get to class on the inaccessible and disability insensitive UPEI campus. Now that’s something worthy of our tears not the hurt feelings of bureaucrats.

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UPEI says PEI building codes don’t apply

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UPEI President Wade MacLauchlan opposes access for disabled

UPEI President Wade MacLauchlan opposes access for disabled

Access-Ability Committee misguided attempt to force disabled into power wheelchairs

At Future Shop today I ran into a member of the UPEI accessibility committee who proceeded to berate 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 for him.

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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Disabled vehicle tow away zone the final solution

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Disabled vehicle tow away zone UPEI's final solution

Disabled vehicle tow away zone UPEI's final solution

Is a Disabled Vehicle Tow Away Zone next at UPEI

PEI Disability Alert, September 2008, updated August 22, 2009

UPEI has the final solution for the disabled parking problem – a disabled vehicle tow away zone around the whole university.
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Disabled, children and pregnant women at Canada Games risk swine flu

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Player in quarantine with possible swine flu is a warning to children, pregant women and the disabled

Player in quarantine with possible swine flu is a warning to children, pregant women and the disabled

Common sense will keep a few people home

With story from Winnipeg Free Press

With the first case of swine flu among the athletes at Canada Games, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure there is a risk. However, press and marketing people at Canada Games may not warn us to keep the Games momentum going.

A tennis player competing for Manitoba at the Canada Games in Prince Edward Island has been quarantined while Games officials await test results for H1N1 influenza.

Muzeen Ismath, a 17-year-old Winnipegger who plays out of the Tuxedo Tennis Club, showed symptoms of the flu Wednesday morning and was immediately quarantined and tested, Team Manitoba manager Barry Moroz said Wednesday night.  Continue reading →

UPEI disability spokesperson named in lawsuit

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Paul Cudmore Charlottetown UPEI spokesperson named in lawsuit

Paul Cudmore Charlottetown UPEI spokesperson named in lawsuit

Paul Cudmore, UPEI Access-Ability Committee member, sued for trademark infringement and unethical business practices

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Disabled find getting to class difficult at University of PEI, host of 2009 Canada Games

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Updated campus survey shows 9 of 17 buildings don’t have disabled parking

9 buildings do not have accessible parking

9 buildings do not have accessible parking

Updated August 4, 2009 (see endnote)

In the third survey of accessible parking at the University of Prince Edward Island,  nine of the seventeen campus buildings do not have accessible parking. Continue reading →

Photo op at UPEI disguises real disability problems

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Health Minister Doug Currie, left, Charlene Stevenson and Brian Doucette, both of the Canadian Paraplegic Association P.E.I. division, and Paul Cudmore of the UPEI Accessibility Committee, were on hand Tuesday for the official launch of the newly improved Main Building that makes it easier for persons with disabilities to access the building and washrooms. Guardian photo

Health Minister Doug Currie, left, Charlene Stevenson and Brian Doucette, both of the Canadian Paraplegic Association P.E.I. division, and Paul Cudmore of the UPEI Accessibility Committee, were on hand Tuesday for the official launch of the newly improved Main Building that makes it easier for persons with disabilities to access the building and washrooms. Guardian photo

Charlottetown Guardian censors our comments for the first time – great moments in journalistic history

Updated August 2, 2009

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.  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.

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Civil Rights violations at UPEI

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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 i.e. accessible parking.

While the university has complex and logical arguments to bolster it’s drive to push the disabled off campus, the reality is that students with disabilities find it difficult to attend UPEI and graduate.

UPEI’s systemic discrimination is condoned by politicians and the establishment. It condemns young people with disabilities to a life of sub-standard education and low income.

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 is a Jim Crow university.
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Council wrong on accessible parking at UPEI

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Marcia Carroll, PEI Council of the Disabled OKs removing disabled parking

CEO of PEI Council of the Disabled not representing people with disabilities

The letter in the Guardian from Marcia Carroll, the executive director of the PEI Council of People with Disabilities, is misinformed to the extent it sanctions the discriminatory behaviour of UPEI towards persons with disabilities. Accessible parking means adjacent to where the person with the disability needs to go, not 75 meters or more away.

The fact that someone has a mobility disability means they have trouble walking and need to reduce walking as much as possible. The order of a UPEI Committee does not make it acceptable to push those with disabilities off campus.

Fancy words won’t help a person with a mobility disability get from the outer parking lot in the rain, snow or ice by foot, cane, walker or wheelchair. I would like to see those officials and officials of the Council try one winter on UPEI campus in a wheelchair. I suggest they would change their tune.

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