For Canadians with disabilities, Canada’s National Parks are a drive through experience.
A committee in Ontario designed the supposed disabled ramp at the National Park at Brackley Beach, Prince Edward Island.
The ramp is too steep for any person with a disability, excepting perhaps Olympic athletes who use wheelchairs.
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Premier Ghiz of PEI worried about EI changes that affect 78% of Islanders (Photo CBC News)
Did Premier Ghiz see the shifting sands of Canada coming to hit him with the triple threat of reduction in Employment Insurance benefits, Federal transfer payments and massive layoffs of public servants?
If he had, perhaps some of the $500 million PNP money would have been spent on industrial development and not buying luxury homes and cars, propping up bankrupt businesses and essentially squandered on anything that had a pulse with a partisan connection. Continue reading
We built this economy (photo credit - Jesselangham Wikiality)
Every day we are being told the problems of Canada and the United States are too many aging Baby Boomers.
It’s as if they want us to move onto an ice flow and disappear in the Arctic spring.
Well, it’s not our fault if we built the strongest economic boom in history. Through hard work we provided the great standard of living our children would like to inherit without the same amount of effort. Continue reading
The 99% protest at Occupy Toronto (photo CBC)
The Canadian and US tax systems reinforce the concentration of wealth in the hands of the 1%.
It will take a major shift in how the government structures the tax system to see any transfer in wealth from the 1% to the 99%. Continue reading
Parks Canada wheelchair ramp at Brackley Beach is one of the many obstacles to tourists with disabilities
The Federal and Provincial governments have a new website (under construction) that will rate PEI tourist facilities as accessible or not.
The website will disclose that PEI is a disaster for the disabled. Both Federal and Provincial governments have ignored their role in leading the public to accept people with disabilities.
A year in development, the website is still not operational.
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A new website and Facebook page is taking the satirical approach to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
They want to thank him for working hard to make corporations and their executives richer.
The videos will appeal to some voters, already disinclined to support Harper.
Will they make any impression on the millions of Canadians under the hypnotic spell of Stephen Harper?
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Links – People for Corporate Tax Cuts , Facebook and Twitter