What’s worse, the cop who pushes Sandy to the ground once or Canadian society keeps her on the ground for her whole life? In June a woman with a disability was pushed to the street in Vancouver by a police officer. He walked away without helping her up. While the Vancouver police department claims the [...]

Despite $11 million in funding and a Federal agreement, the Ghiz government is refusing to support a cultural centre in the new school “The community is disappointed on various levels!” The Federal Minister of Fisheries Gail Shea was on PEI announcing $11 million in support for French and Acadian cultural projects when she was surprised [...]

Eastern Kings County, PEI has lots of good local beaches like Bear Shore If you follow the Bear River Road it turns to a clay road in Saint Margarets when it intersects the Northside Road at 16. Keep on the clay Bear Shore road to a secluded, local beach where a pond empties into the [...]

It wouldn’t take more than a can of blue paint (for the wheelchair parking) and a small ramp (about $5,000) to make one beach in the PEI National Park accessible.

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Minister Currie pulls the wool over public’s eyes with phony “strategy” without input from the people who matter, parents and people with autism Yesterday PEI Education Minister Doug Currie announced his long awaited strategy on supports and treatment for children with autism. Recommendations Toward A Prince Edward Island Autism Action Plan: Another Piece of the [...]

Parents concerned they were not consulted CBC News – The P.E.I. government released a new strategy for the diagnosis and treatment of autism Tuesday, but the Autism Society says concrete results are a ways off. The reports contains 37 recommendations, including: * Development of a kindergarten support model. * Increasing service capacity by hiring a [...]

PEI Human Rights Commission orders UPEI to reinstate workers and stop mandatory retirements The PEI Human Rights Commission has issued a Decision on Remedies that forces UPEI to obey the law and the Commission’s February 2010 decision. UPEI must give retired UPEI employees Thomy Nilsson, Richard Wills and Yogi Fell their jobs back. It must [...]