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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Parks Canada wheelchair ramp at Brackley Beach not accessible - For the most part the National Park on PEI is not accessible to the disabled.
For the most part the National Park on PEI is not accessible to the disabled.
On Sunday morning I checked out the disabled parking at the Prince Edward Island National Park. I am pleased to report that 4 new accessible parking spots were painted in at Brackley Beach. Thanks to Parks Canada for responding to Why is Parks Canada not accessible to disabled ?
That only leaves Stanhope Beach, Ross Lane, Dalvay and all the other beaches in that section of the park to be upgraded. The situation is more or less the same at Cavendish so it would be a kindness for Parks Canada to just upgrade the lot of them.
Unfortunately, our luck ran out with Minister Jim Prentice and Fisheries Minister Gail Shea. Ernie Hudson replied from Shea’s office that the Brackley Beach wheelchair ramp is accessible. That’s a joke. Continue reading
Richard Brown with environmental employees (PEI Government photo)
PEI rivers and bays are suffering from an increase in anoxia this year. Green slime has taken over the rivers and killed thousands of fish.
It happens every year but this year is worse. Suspected causes are run off from fertilizers and chemicals for the land and sewage from waste systems.
Provincial environment minister Richard Brown has issued a press release. Federal Minister of Fisheries Gail Shea wants to partner with the Province to study the problem.
There hasn’t been a peep, not a press release or a Tweet from the Green Party, who are supposed to be dedicated to environmental issues. We must assume they have moved on to bigger and more vital topics like the gun range near Sharon Labchuck’s home.
“Anoxic conditions have been reported in a number of areas already this summer including portions of Brackley Bay, Covehead Bay, Barbara Weit River, Indian River, Bentic Cove, Southwest River, Hunter-Clyde River, Wheatley River, Chapel Creek, Hills (Mill) River, Cardigan River, Trout/Stanley River (including Founds River and Granville Creek), Hope River, Anderson’s Creek and Montrose River.” (Charlottetown Guardian)
Les Acadiens veulent plus, Radio Canada
“The community is disappointed on various levels!”
The Federal Minister of Fisheries Gail Shea was on PEI as part of her visit announcing $11 million in support for French and Acadian cultural and youth organizations. In Summerside at a local event for La Belle Alliance (Summerside) and Jeunesse Acadienne, Shea was surprised by complaints by Acadian parents from Rustico. They wanted to know why they were not getting the centre scolaire-communautaire (CSC) to which they were entitled and asked the Minister whether federal policy to support CSCs had changed.
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Federal Minister of Fisheries Gail Shea and PEI Premier Robert Ghiz, MIA on French school in Rustico (image, Brian Simpson)
July 20th, 2010 Federal Minister of Fisheries Gail Shea and PEI Premier Robert Ghiz signed the Multi-Year Agreement on French Language Services.
It has not gone without observation in the Acadian community that Ghiz and his ministers did not show up for a photo-op at the groundbreaking for L’école Saint-Augustin in Rustico, PEI.
No sign of the coming construction adorns on the site, as though the Ghiz government is embarrassed by the project. When governments at all levels are anxious to trumpet their spending, the silence in Rustico is deafening. Continue reading
Gail Shea, Federal Fisheries Minister says oops can't help you boys
CBC, May 17th, 2009
Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea says providing Maritimes lobster fishermen with subsidies in this time of low prices would violate Canada’s trade agreement with the United States. Continue reading
Tignish Fire Dept
It was coincidentally the start of Disability Alert’s Tour of Hope in Tignish PEI.
The weather has been anything but spring like this April and a small snow storm on Friday almost disrupted everyone’s plans. Saturday turned out to be cold, windy and snow flurries. but we enjoyed meeting the people of West Prince and letting them know the DSP needs to be fixed. Continue reading
