ODSP Action Coalition Joins Over 190 Organizations Endorsing Maytree Foundation’s Open Letter on Ontario’s Next Poverty Reduction Strategy odspaction.ca/odsp-action-...

Editorial: With the CRA, we need competence first Objection proceedings to CRA decisions have risen to about 130,000 claims a year, up from about 70,000 objections six years ago. #CRA www.canadianaffairs.news/2025/12/12/e...

Ontario’s Poverty Reduction Strategy consultation is smoke & mirrors The province asks for ideas to reduce poverty while its own policies on housing, income security, and employment services continue to MAKE #POVERTY WORSE. #ONpoli #HumanRights maytree.com/publications...

I just want to give everyone who sees this (hopefully a lot of people, make this viral please!) a taste of what Ontario’s ODSP is really like! This is an acceptable way to treat disabled people, btw. #ontario #odsp #canada #disabled #disability #eugenics literal Charter (Section 7) violation btw

Instead of tackling the #homelessness crisis, Ford & co. seem intent on pouring more gas (or dynamite) on the bonfire! Bill 60 does not 'protect Ontarians'! It would effectively make the flimsy rent controls we currently have, null & void! #KillBill60 www.cp24.com/local/toront...

Ontario’s new Integrated Employment Services (IES) promised to help all job seekers find sustainable employment. But new data analysis reveals a troubling reality: The system is systematically failing social assistance recipients and other equity-deserving groups. maytree.com/publications...

Dougald Lamont’s Substack At a Time of Global Crisis, the Carney Liberals' Rite-Lite Plans Are a Recipe for Economic Disaster #Economics open.substack.com/pub/dougaldl...

Hospital stay can cost over $16k, & a yr in jail can cost over $120,000. Supportive housing w/wraparound care? About $20,000 a year. The math isn’t complicated. We can pay for survival, over and over again. Or we can invest in stability. #HousingCrisis www.thesarniajournal.ca/opinion/ever...

This report establishes a clear case for govts in Cda to completely decouple employment income from provincial & federal #DisabilityBenefits. Moving away from traditional clawback models will help people w/disabilities reach their potential & escape the "poverty trap"! #Cdnpoli buff.ly/8FeIzbA

REPORT: Ont’s so-called Poverty Reduction Strategy has failed #Poverty is rising w/more & more ppl unable to afford necessities for a dignified life, incl. those w/jobs This is the direct result of myopic govt policies. We need a new path forward #ONpoli maytree.com/publications...

June's webinar is on the Canada Disability Benefit. It's an update on the benefit and what we still need to do to make it as accessible as possible. Free zoom registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Tell your MPP & Ford govt Ontario needs to 🟣 Bring Back Full Rent Control 🔶 Strengthen Tenant Rights 🟣 Expand Public Housing 🔶 Increase Income Security 🟣 Support Dignified Housing for All Full mandate letter: buff.ly/BkLepxl Send Renter Mandate Letter to your MPP & Ford govt: buff.ly/IkpjVsz

Rally held outside Queen’s Park over Bill 6 which criminalizes #homelessness and conflates it with addiction. Thank you @dianacmcnally.bsky.social for your tireless efforts organizing & pushing back against this harmful & dangerous piece of legislation. #ONpoli cp24.com/video/2025/0...

Ontario govt has officially announced that they will exempt the #CanadaDisabilityBenefit as income under #ODSP, #OW & ACSD. #ONpoli 👇 news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...

My latest op-ed for @thestar.com: when it comes to encampments, Doug Ford is looking south of the border when he should be looking west. Ontario is importing failed American policies to punish homelessness, while Manitoba is doing what works: housing people. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

TO's #homeless encampments are up 20% — expanding into areas they've never been before A whopping 248 tents & other makeshift structures were counted across 81 locations as of Mar 15th, up from 202 camps in 72 locations the same day in 2024. #ONpoli thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

Ontario has reintroduced Bill 6, which will punish encampments even though people have nowhere else to go. That's why we've formed the Encampment Justice Coalition. We're asking Ontario to rescind Bill 6 and commit to housing — not punishment. Read more: tinyurl.com/EJC-Bill6

Today, I released a letter, signed by 67 organizations working across Ontario, asking the Ford government to rescind Bill 6. We can't adopt Trumpian policies to punish encampments; people need proven solutions — especially housing. Read our letter: tinyurl.com/EJC-Bill6

The so-called 'Safer Municipalities Act' (previously Bill 242), which essentially criminalizes being #homeless, & conflates homelessness & addiction, is back. With nowhere else to go, clearing encampments only moves the misery from one place to another 🤷 news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...

What Happened to #Poverty as an #Election Issue? Despite the growing number of Canadians struggling to make enough money to feed, clothe and house themselves, the word “poverty” has seldom been uttered on the campaign trail. thetyee.ca/News/2025/04...

Far too many Canadians live one paycheque away from homelessness. #EndTheHousingGame this election. #cdnpoli #canadavotes www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPLR... www.endthehousinggame.ca/watch-share

BLOG: How income clawbacks work in the real world of social and income assistance If the #CanadaDisabilityBenefit had been implemented as a refundable tax credit as many of us advocated for, we could have avoided a variety of negative interactions/impacts openpolicyontario.com/whats-it-all...

Lost her job 2 yrs ago, 56 yr old couldn't find another, had to sell her house & became homeless for 4 days before renting a room in her daughter's apt. She only receives $800/mo from #OW. She's not healthy & isn't watching The Flintstones! #ONpoli www.mississauga.com/politics/pro...

Happy #FamilyDay! LGBTQ+ youth have disproportionately high rates of homelessness. Call upon all the candidates to ask what they are doing to protect the rights of homeless youth and provide housing so they can grow up healthy. Vote for a party that protects families on February 27th.

Ford was asked about potentially doubling ODSP He responded by attacking recipients of OW, claiming "healthy people" are defrauding the system of $733/month. Number one, you’re not going to be healthy if you’re living on 733/month. #OutOfTouch #ONpoli pressprogress.ca/doug-ford-cr...

With great sadness & heavy hearts we learned our long-standing Co-chair, and social worker w/TorontoPWA, Kyle Vose, passed away this morning. Thank you Kyle for teaching us to advocate with passion, and lead with kindness and love. Rest easy dear friend. We'll take it from here 😰

11 Ways to Respond When Someone Insults a Loved One’s Disability 🤔 time.com/7202210/disa...

Ford govt tabled Bill 242 'Safer Municipalities Act' on their way out the door for their xtended Xmas break. Below is our press release regarding this ugly piece of legislation, which you can read here 👇 www.ola.org/en/legislati...

Ford's Con's prefer to victimize the vulnerable & punish ppl who literally have nothing, than provide real evidence-based solutions These problems didn’t develop overnight. It's decades of Lib' & Con' govt cuts coming home to roost! #HousingCrisis #ONpoli financialpost.com/pmn/business...

Social Benefits Tribunal has consistently been denying requests for accommodation by PWDs with no access to computers or internet, telling them to just use their phone for video hearings, placing them at a significant disadvantage. tribunalwatch.ca/2024/heard-b...

@policyalternatives.bsky.social Greetings CCPA friends! May we ask, what happened to monitormag.ca? Is there a repository/archive of legacy 'The Monitor' articles? Some fantastic in-depth pieces there that seems to have vanished?

Instead of living up to its commitments under the Internat'l Covenant on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights, this stream of election gimmicks & promises ultimately benefits those who are better-off, while ignoring those who are most in need. #Cdnpoli #ONpoli #Canada maytree.com/publications...

People are 'living' in tents. in parks. Our premier is distracting us with bike lanes and fantasy tunnels. #ONpoli #AffordableHousing www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

2025 Ontario Budget Consultations are now open until Feb 3rd. Participate via their online survey, and/or sending a written submission and/or applying to make an in-person submission. #ONpoli More here 👇 www.ontario.ca/page/2025-bu...

Federal govt plans to cut GST and give $250 cheques to millions of "working Canadians" The GST break will begin Dec. 14th, end Feb. 15th #cdnpoli www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Check out the new Ontario #campaign2000 report card! “Tackling Child Poverty: A Call for Bold Solutions,” the latest alarming report on growing child and family poverty in #Ontario. ontariocampaign2000.ca/tackling-chi... #ONpoli #Tacklingchildpoverty #OntarioReportCard

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