ODSP ActionCoalition

Advocacy group led by PWD on ODSP, w/allies (NOT govt affiliated). Defending dignity 4 folks w/disabilities in poverty. Advocate. Educate. Demonstrate 🌈💨♿

[ODSP ActionCoalition @ODSPAction]

York Region Disability Community Meeting
When: June 30th, 2026 1pm to 3:30pm
Where: Richmond Hill Public Library Central Branch
More info below and here:
https://t.co/4PlwkU3FmX #ODSP #Disability #Poverty

[ODSP ActionCoalition @ODSPAction]

Provincial payments to WCG —an Australian co. backed by US investors that the province pays to (poorly) oversee once publicly administered #ODSP employment svcs — increased 525% from $36M in 2021 to $225M in 2025.
https://t.co/J4aa00txAR

[CTV News Toronto @CTVToronto]

Over $1 billion goes to private companies administering Ontario government programs: OPSEU report https://t.co/WqzNeRKgfI

[ODSP ActionCoalition @ODSPAction]

Premier Ford verbally abused an Ontario Superior Court Justice for a decision he didn’t like

An intemperate reaction to another court decision he doesn’t like. He’s done it before, and it is a troubling pattern of behaviour.
👏👏👏👏👏
#ONpoli
https://t.co/HggTatqISl

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

BIG news out of Kitchener-Waterloo: the Ontario Superior Court has ruled that homelessness is an analogous ground for discrimination under s.15 of the Charter. This is a BIG step toward recognizing homeless people as an equity-seeking group under the law. Governments take note!

[Sarah Colero @Sarah_Colero]

The $200/month maximum Canada Disability Benefit is getting an increase in July

Of maximum $4.20/month.

$4.20 🤯

Canada's government keeping trolling disabled folks as they are shoving us toward MAID with multi-level legislated destitution.

Destitution or Death, you "choose"!

[ODSP ActionCoalition @ODSPAction]

@Sarah_Colero @PJforTO @LandBack1983NVF @ODSPoor @TorontoACORN @planningtoronto @SHJNetwork It's worth posting this again:

Designed to fail: How Ontario’s income security policies create and perpetuate homelessness
https://t.co/SmImU6Oj7y

[ODSP ActionCoalition @ODSPAction]

BLOG: Where the rhetoric of ‘dependency’ becomes shallow

There is nothing antifragile or character-building about forcing a person with disabilities to repeatedly prove they are disabled through humiliating bureaucratic rituals..
#ODSP #OW
https://t.co/BCU2udIyUP

[ODSP ActionCoalition @ODSPAction]

@Sarah_Colero @PJforTO @LandBack1983NVF @ODSPoor @TorontoACORN @planningtoronto @SHJNetwork Yes, just when a person has hit rock bottom, is in crisis and in need of more support, instead of helping, the province kicks them when they're down. 😠

[Free Grassy @FreeGrassy]

A reporter asks @fordnation a simple question: will he compensate Grassy Narrows for the ongoing mercury crisis?

Ford sidesteps the question yet again.

Sign and share the petition:
https://t.co/kR035t8crj

#GrassyNarrows #FreeGrassy #ONpoli

[Free Grassy @FreeGrassy]

Breaking: Chief Ackabee kicks off Shut Down Dryden Mill Rally by demanding that @fordnation shut down the Dryden mill that continues to worsen the poisoning

#FreeGrassy #GrassyNarrows #ShutDownDrydenMill

[ODSP ActionCoalition @ODSPAction]

Grassy Narrows (@FreeGrassy) has been fighting for justice for over 50 years! it is time to make things right!
Sign the petition:
https://t.co/Y42OsvoiM0
@FreeGrassy

[ODSP ActionCoalition @ODSPAction]

For a single person on #ODSP receiving max shelter and 'basic needs' a 1.9% increase works out to about a $27/mo increase. Total $1,435/mo.
#ONpoli
Link: https://t.co/ZM2ip08Bwt

[Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC) @ISAC_Ontario]

ODSP rates will go up by 1.9% starting in July for the 2026 inflation-based adjustment. There's no inflation-based adjustment for OW rates, meaning the actual OW amount received *decreases* in value again, as it has every year for 8 years now. ISAC annual rates sheet coming soon.

[ODSP ActionCoalition @ODSPAction]

@Mitts64 @TorontoStar 💯

[ODSP ActionCoalition @ODSPAction]

"After 40 years providing employment services training to people with developmental disabilities, Community Living Mississauga says it will no longer work under Ontario’s job training program."

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

Longtime job trainer for people with disabilities quits Ontario's program https://t.co/k7FJoDjWFJ

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

“The new model is a disaster.” Premier Doug Ford’s controversial plan to get Ontarians off social assistance and into jobs is failing those with complex physical and intellectual disabilities, according to the province’s own research. #onpoli https://t.co/gLcsh5z6wS

[ODSP ActionCoalition @ODSPAction]

Housing policy failures, not unhoused people, drive local concerns

"People are uncomfortable seeing the results of bad policy over decades. I get that. But I also know that 'othering' people who are already vulnerable is not the answer"
#ONpoli
https://t.co/mi98vn6AgW

[Kathleen Wynne @Kathleen_Wynne]

Now, just imagine if the Premier had allowed the Basic Income Pilot to run its course. We could have used the evidence to make real changes to address deep poverty in Ontario. Such a bad decision and such a waste.

https://t.co/75gurGkLCX

[ODSP ActionCoalition @ODSPAction]

Ford govt's 2020-25 poverty reduction strategy failed to reach its goal.

Poverty rate dropped to a low of 6.8% in 2020 primarily driven by federal pandemic supports. In 2023 it went back up to about 11.1%.
#ONpoli #poverty
https://t.co/GdoNIo6ERa

[ODSP ActionCoalition @ODSPAction]

New report examines & dissects the tangled web of process & bureaucracy connected to the Disability Tax Credit and finds that at every step, there are deep flaws and barriers that perpetuate the very poverty trap it is meant to alleviate
#DTC #Cdnpoli
https://t.co/w0qJtVSssh

[Free Grassy @FreeGrassy]

River Run Rally 2026 🌊🌊🌊

Wednesday, September 23, 2026 | 12pm | Toronto

RSVP: https://t.co/0Ed5iRSkQG

Join Grassy Narrows youth and community members as they travel 1,700km to demand mercury justice.

#FreeGrassy #GrassyNarrows