Olive Crane on the hustings (photo Guardian)
Another man hobbled to the door, telling Crane he didn’t understand why he couldn’t access disability support.
“You spend 15 minutes with people and you hear their stories. You’re problem-solving at every door.” Olive Crane quoted in Charlottetown Guardian Related – Committee recommends seniors get DSP coverage
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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After years of talk, in May PEI adopted direct deposit for social benefits like Financial Assistance and Disability Support.
Many didn’t get the paperwork done and will have to pick up their cheques due to the postal strike.
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Queen Elizabeth Hospital Emergency (Province of PEI)
Boyzone playing Full Monty "almost" totally nude (Mail Online)
The Confederation Theatre production of The Full Monty is a new low for the theatre.
One has to travel to Angie’s strip club in Moncton to see anything like this, and no one thinks Angie’s is a high class establishment. Continue reading
Leo Steven and Health Minister Carolyn Bertram at odds with surgeons (image: Guardian Heather Taweel)
Five Charlottetown area orthopedic surgeons threatened a partial withdrawal of services to bolster their demand for more operating room services. Continue reading
Elizabeth Berrigan invisible in death (roses from Island Deaths)
She was a tall, beautiful and intelligent Irish woman of a proud Prince Edward Island family.
Those eyes of hers could flash with wit, laughter and life.
They were also windows to a tortured soul who struggled for 30 years with mental illness and disability. Continue reading
Faye Martin, director of PEI seniors policy " We would hope that this is not the type of thing that would happen frequently"
There is more to the death of Elizabeth Berrigan than the Province of PEI wants to admit.
Nor is the media telling the whole story.
Berrigan was a person living with a disability in a subsidized government housing unit and largely abandoned despite her needs.
Berrigan’s ignominious and tragic end – alone and dead in her apartment for five months – should be a wake up call that things are not OK. Continue reading
60 year old woman lay dead in her apartment for 5 months (photo Google Street View)
A 60-year-old disabled woman was found dead in her apartment Tuesday this week in Charlottetown.
She died apparently in November 2010, almost five months ago, of natural causes. Continue reading
Beyoncé not coming to PEI
Salvation Army a Victorian era charity still needed to help the poor in Canada
During the coldest week of winter, people on Prince Edward Island who are living in poverty discovered that the Salvation Army has run out of emergency oil support.