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Why is the CBC spending $100,000 to shut down a disability based business?
By Stephen Pate – The National (CBC) story Inspiration for Innovation – How Disabilities Are Changing Big Business white washes the reality that many business don’t want to hire people with disabilities and refuse to accommodate them.
The CBC has an especially bad reputation for refusing to accommodate people with disabilities. In my case, the CBC is fighting to shut down my self employment.
6 years ago I set up a news service using innovations like blogging, digital video, Facebook, and Twitter.
I didn’t need a big budget to report the news.
“The CBC does not know what to do about you,” explained a CBC reporter.
CBC tried to force me out of business by taking away my Legislature Press Pass. The excuse was bloggers could not be journalists.
Today any journalist who does not know how to blog, Tweet, Facebook or post a smartphone video is job threatened. At the time CBC employees admitted they blogged in their jobs.
So unlike the TD Bank and Google in the story about innovation, disability is the skeleton in the CBC’s closet.
It reminds me of what we learned in Sunday School “hypocrites! on the outside you appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones.”
The CBC did not relent in my case, have a change of heart as it were. They are fighting the PEI Human Rights Commission who want to have a hearing into why they took away my press pass and cut off my employment.
CBC hired Alan Parish, a sharp lawyer, and paid him $100,000 so far to make sure the case never gets heard.
That’s a lot of money to keep one disabled person’s from working.
The CBC or Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is Canada’s public broadcaster funded by taxpayers to the tune of $1 billion annually.
We asked Ioanna Roumeliotis (ioanna.roumeliotis@cbc.ca) the CBC journalist who prepared the story about Google Glasses and the Google Car but she declined to comment. She is probably a very nice person just doing her job.
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Illustration by Rita Sales Luis.
By Stephen Pate, NJN Network
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