Tomorrow! Join @ODCoalition, @ODSPAction & @djnontario for the #Rally4ODSP to end disability poverty. Held at Queenโs Park starting at 11:00 am. These groups will be demanding an increase to the inadequate social assistance rates, which have remained frozen since 2018.
Dear Doug, repeat after us.
ODSP is not OW.
(hell 1/4 of OW, isn't OW.. it's just ODSP waiting to be accepted)
#ODSP is not OW.
That means almost all of them, CAN'T WORK.
Raise the rates !
Now, before the election.
Then again if you win.
48% below poverty is Illegal.
#Onpoli
MB court case momentous
Does a PWD subjected to extreme/preventable poverty amount to a violation of their Charter rights to life, liberty & security of the person?
With govts failing to act responsibly, we're about find out through the court #Cdnpoli
https://t.co/uOf7qQUSIC
@kellyfairchild2 I have stomach issues too. Vomiting is one of those things that I fear like crazy because when it's due to sickness I almost always pass out. Hugs... glad it's a bit better.
Being on the system is and never has been help to get better, just survive. There is no interest, we are a business, legislated poverty. It costs more to investigate us, then they get out of doing so. Just so "jobs".
We have to be silenced so we don't speak out, and when we speak out we are silenced. The average person is sheltered from what it's like to be in poverty. We never get proper portrayal in the media, and government only mentions us at election time. #PWD#ODSP
@hicksy479@DonDavies If you are in poverty, you need teeth for people to hire you, as a basic. You need teeth for people not to judge you. I can't pay, because I can't work, and even ODSP doesn't cover enough. My teeth have been a nightmare since my 20's. I hope this adds to your abrupt perspective.
@FBananapants @Jackie_ofTrades @TylerStack@DonDavies I hope better services will be allowed. I'm tired of not having teeth. Dentures don't work for me, they really cause me to gag so I need a better option.
@TruismsT@DonDavies Considering dental care isn't just pretty stuff. Without teeth, hard to get a job, without proper denture, can't eat well. I need a better option, I gag with dentures. I need implants and we all know that won't be covered as it's seen as cosmetic.
@FBananapants@JustinTrudeau I didn't even get that because my stuff got in just over the cut-off window because they didn't think my doctor put enough info on it, so he did and sent it back and guess what. 1 week after cut-off. I didn't get my 600.