While homelessness has been on the rise in 2023, there IS a solution - supportive, deeply affordable, permanent housing.
In this video, tenants from Strathearne Suites in Hamilton share their stories of resilience and hope in supportive.
Check it out: https://t.co/uESGDfrV5g
‘Just let me f-----g die.’ A suicidal man was taken to St. Joe’s for help but was released. He was dead within 64 minutes.
👉 https://t.co/w1LsiaKf4Q | Hamilton #HamOnt | Susan Clairmont, Spectator Columnist
Listening, with my colleagues @NrinderWard3 and Councillor Jackson, as @WAWGHAMILTON declares intimate partner and gender based violence an epidemic in our city. ✊🏻 💙 #HamOnt
Hamilton police constable Brian Wren is unlikely to spend time in jail for stomping on the head of an unconscious man during a violent arrest last year, @NicoleatTheSpec reports #HamOnt
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Hamilton looks to declare three separate states of emergency to get province’s attention
👉 https://t.co/N9rNadargc | Hamilton #HamOnt | Joanna Frketich, Spectator Reporter @jfrketich
This is my ODSP cheque today. Where is there a single place in Ontario you can afford so much as a safe, private room for $522 a month? Even the total, $1228, isnt enough for most spaces, & when it is, theres not enough left to eat or pay other bills. This is mandated #ODSPoverty
“Mental illness and addictions don't cause homelessness. Homelessness is a system failure and it is people with mental illnesses and addictions who are most likely to be impacted by that failure.”
From our Keynote Speaker, Dr. @AbeOudshoorn
What the new ON budget means for those on social assistance
Critics have termed #ODSP “legislated poverty” & called for rates to be doubled as a start toward making the program livable in the midst of the worst #AffordabilityCrisis in decades.
#ONpoli
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This change will lead to the deaths of sick and disabled people across Ontario. We need a government that governs with compassion and love, not contempt for people who don't have money to pay for healthcare. There is no reason for this much political violence.
From June to November last year, 22 people, all men, died while experiencing homelessness in Hamilton.
The average age among them was 43: https://t.co/d8nySZz4zq #HamOnt
Yesterday, I asked my first question to @fordnation.
I worked with Olivia @sopenhamilton, @ajesusjoseph & Gessie Stearns to ask about the 22 houseless folks in #HamOnt who died in the last six months, & the need for more provincial funding to eradicate homelessness 1/
Great question from my MPP and I love how ready for this job she is. Day 1 and she’s in there holding the government accountable. This is what I voted for. The campaign is barely over, and she’s already bringing it. Go Sarah! 🔥 💕 #HamOnt
1) Biden is ahead in enough places to win the Presidency.
2) Trump wants to count all the votes in those states to see if he can catch up.
3) In GA and PA, where he is currently ahead, he wants to stop counting.
4) Donald Trump only wants to count Donald Trump votes.