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Can someone please help today? 🚨$350 needed for Groceries 3 Moms need $75 5 ppl need $25 $800 Eviction 🆘URGENT $740 Eviction 🆘URGENT DM & I will connect u directly or PayPal/E transfer [email protected]

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I'm traveling over 700km to access healthcare for Muscular Dystrophy as there are no specialists in my area. A travel grant will cover part of the cost, but I'll need additional funds for food and to cover the remaining $200 that is not covered. Any contribution is appreciated.

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A life of a person with disabilities. Not worthy of love. Not worthy of marriage. Not worthy of housing. Not worthy of leaving your province. Not worthy of eating. Not worthy of mental health services. Not worthy of housing. Not worthy of poverty level support!! 😔

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Will the government increase ODSP to mitigate the disproportionate impact of tariffs on persons with disabilities, who are already struggling with food insecurity and a high cost of living?

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Support and social assistance rates must be adjusted to keep pace with skyrocketing rents; it's the only fair solution.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

The government’s plan for the disabled relies heavily on the idea that people with disabilities have families who can afford to support them.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Perhaps the reason poverty persists is that there is no consensus on who is responsible for addressing it. The reality is that all levels of government have a role to play in eliminating poverty.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Decades of austerity measures and frozen support rates have eroded the effectiveness of ODSP, which was initially designed to keep people with disabilities above the poverty line, and has instead allowed support to fall increasingly behind the rising cost of living.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

All Canadians should be angry about this story. The only reason the media is talking about this man's story is because he was an MPP There are Millions of Canadians loving on similar social safety net programs screaming for help only to be offered MAiD I worked 20+y & Ford leaves me in poverty

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

When you become disabled - you don’t just lose your health. You lose your autonomy, independence, freedom and often … your friends & family. Help doesn’t magically arrive. No one comes to save you. In fact - most people will blame and abandon you. 🧵

submitted 59 days ago • 34 comments

If you think disabled people: Need to “try harder” to survive Can magically find money where none exists Are exaggerating the lack of help available Are getting needs met by the government Read this 👇🏼 The government just raised 25k to protect one of their own 🧵/1

submitted 59 days ago • 6 comments

We say these are "health issues" but... We criminalize homelessness. We criminalize poverty. We criminalize people who use drugs. We criminalize addiction. We criminalize mental health issues. Health issues are solved by supporting people, not by punishing them! #Healthissue

submitted 66 days ago • 5 comments

ODSP; The punishment you get for being ill.

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

#homeless #unhoused #harmreduction

submitted 72 days ago • 355 comments

So Doug Ford is going to criminalize homelessness. Fines up to $10 THOUSAND. Because the homeless sure have 10 grand lying around the tent. How dare they not be able to afford rent when they're getting exactly $582 for their housing on ODSP (disability pension) when a 1 bdrm is $1500/mth?

submitted 81 days ago • 5 comments

We need accountability for systemic harm. It’s a crime to kill someone. But no one bats an eye if a politician cuts disability payments leading disabled people to starve to death. Power and paperwork are a shield mass murderers hide behind.

submitted 74 days ago • 10 comments

Merry Christmas Dougie, you sat on this file the entire time you were in office and now that another Christmas is rolling around you are going to round up vulnerable people. That's my definition of a heartless prick....#onpoli toronto.ctvnews.ca/enough-is-en...

submitted 79 days ago • 7 comments

Looking at the fifth annual report on MAiD in Canada from 2023 and almost half of track 2 recipients (47.1%) reported "isolation or loneliness" as the source of their suffering. Not surprising but still hard to read. Hits very close to home. www.canada.ca/en/health-ca...

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Disabled people can go on holiday. Disabled people can socialise. Disabled people can go to the gym. Disabled people can seem totally "normal". None of that means they're not disabled. Also none of it means they're "able to work".

submitted 81 days ago • 11 comments

disabled people don't make enough money. I think we know this. What we may not know is how much stress, worry and fear - real fear - this puts on a disabled person. The emotional tolls of disability poverty go unspoken, and that is a big problem. We need to talk about it all the time.

submitted 84 days ago • 22 comments

disabled people are lonely by design because 1. we don't get enough money to engage in social outings 2. we can't marry or move in with people without losing benefits 3. there is not enough accessibility for us out in the world. 4. ableist attitudes.

submitted 82 days ago • 14 comments

@justintrudeaupm.bsky.social ALL I want for Christmas Raise the CDB Amount Demand Provinces Fix Provincial Funding on all Social Safety Net Programs Confirm No Clawbacks Get People out of Poverty

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

“People who are homeless are not the problem. They’re the evidence of the problem” Now THAT’S an appropriate and accurate news headline about the homelessness problem. #ONpoli #TOpoli #VoteFordOut #NeverVoteConservative

submitted 84 days ago • 2 comments

REPOST! Please be a Santa for a child 🧑‍🎄

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

And tying what are already abject-poverty level disability rates to household income just creates the conditions for abuse and violence to occur further. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/they-...

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

If you’re newly disabled - you may find one of the toughest battles you’ll have is with yourself. Unlearning internalized ableism, convincing yourself it’s “ok” to rest, ask for help & rely on others… these are not easy things to do. But they are critically important for survival.

submitted 85 days ago • 23 comments

submitted 87 days ago • 432 comments

This is literally #ODSP and #OHIP in Ontario now. The Provincial Premier actually told us to get jobs or #suicide via MAiD. #odspoverty #disability @odspoor.bsky.social

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Come on America, we can do better!

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submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Mental illnesses are real disabilities. ME is a real disability. Autism & ADHD are real disabilities. Every disabled person is different. Some may be able to do some things that others with the same diagnosis can’t do. Disabled people aren’t the problem.

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

little reminder that ODSP gives 1368 per month to survive on in a province where average 1 bedroom rent is well above that. a LOT of those homeless are disabled people who simply can't afford anything anywhere.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

“His application for euthanasia listed only one health condition as the reason for his request to die: hearing loss. Nichols’ family reported the case to police and health authorities, arguing that he lacked the capacity to understand the process and was not suffering unbearable”

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

Why do long-term care facilities often have air conditioning in nursing stations, but not in patient rooms?

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

People who are homeless are more likely to have mental health issues compared to the general population.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

In 2024, the estimated number of people experiencing homelessness in Canada ranges from 150,000 to 300,000. Homelessness costs Canadian society over $7 billion annually.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

My AnXiEtY is out of control! How do you control your AnXiEtY?

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

We all want the option to peacefully end suffering. disabled people NEED to be factored into discussions. When medical systems are strained (as is the case in Canada & UK) assisted dying provides HUGE costs savings. This can result in “useless eaters” being pressured www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... 🧵

submitted 93 days ago • 16 comments

i know this is inconvenient to some, but my chronic suicidal ideation has far less to do with my degenerative disabilities themselves & everything to do with the systems of oppression & profoundly dehumanizing policy choices that make life with disabilities difficult.

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

In this society, assisted dying for disabled people is not about dignity and autonomy. It is about devaluation and coercion.

submitted 95 days ago • 4 comments

So many disabled people have been sounding the alarm on MAID for years, and no one has been listening. Both the state and society, facilitated by physicians and politicians and journalists, are using MAID as a pressure release valve to preserve resources, not lives. So dangerous.

submitted 94 days ago • 8 comments

Rejection sensitivity is central to ADHD, autism, and cPTSD. Mental health services rarely understand rejection sensitivity, which is why people in all three diagnostic categories are so often told there is something wrong with their personality. There isn’t. #HumanNotPD

submitted 94 days ago • 37 comments

So much of being disabled is grieving. Grieving the body you’ll never have, grieving the capabilities you used to have but no longer do, grieving friends and family who no longer reach out. It’s a heavy, ongoing type of grief that is compounding.

submitted 94 days ago • 17 comments

Sitting here wondering what I can take out of my shopping cart because I can't afford the basics. Do I take out eggs? Milk? Cheese? Fresh fruit & veg? Definitely not getting gf bread at $8 a loaf. How else can I starve myself to feed my kid enough?

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Wait time for a disabled person to access medically assisted death in Canada? 3 months A specialist for TREATABLE conditions? 12-18 months Affordable housing? Multiple years Palliative care, psychiatric care & pain management? Good luck. This is why we’re scared. Via @paulapeters19.bsky.social

submitted 94 days ago • 20 comments