Join our Community for QUEEN'S PARK ON NOTICE! RALLY: Thursday, Oct 23rd, 11am @ Queen's Park RSVP: www.noticenorthyork.... RAISE #OW/#ODSP! REAL #RentControl! HOUSING IS A RIGHT! FOOD IS A RIGHT! RAISE WAGES!

As of 7 AM, Toronto is attacking the Dufferin Grove Encampment. Support is needed on the ground now. Alt: this text in green on a light green background

Yesterday, community organizations and unhoused Hamiltonians met with Marie-Josée Houle, the Federal Housing Advocate. Across several meetings with the community, we told her that this City and Province is failing to uphold a human rights based approach to housing. 1/9

LIMITED SPOTS REMAINING: SECURE YOUR SPOT NOW! “POLICING-FREE SCHOOLS IS DISABILITY JUSTICE: KNOWLEDGE MOBILIZATION & CALLS-TO-ACTION”—a FREE education event by DJNO & Policing-Free Schools! Register here: forms.gle/psifdoGCSzTc...

Join the campaign, pals! We need to defend disabled workers *now*. We have a comprehensive campaign and tools coming to focus on the fight for Justice for Disabled Workers. We're always looking to partner with disabled workers to demand disability justice in the workplace! 1/2

Friends: “Urgent support needed at the Dufferin Grove Encampment as city and police prepare for clearing as of 8 AM Wednesday” Follow @dufferingroveencampment for more on IG Alt: the above information on a black background with white text.

🚨 UPDATE: The Dufferin Grove Encampment needs tent defenders and witnesses tomorrow now, friends!! Police are on site, but holding off due to the presence of encampment supports. If you come, please see greeters near the encampment to get oriented. 1/4

🚨 UPDATE: The Dufferin Grove Encampment needs tent defenders and witnesses tomorrow now, friends!! Police are on site, but holding off due to the presence of encampment supports. If you come, please see greeters near the encampment to get oriented. 1/4

🚨 The Dufferin Grove Encampment needs tent defenders and witnesses tomorrow at 8am. If you come, please see our greeters near the encampment to get oriented. ❄️ The City is attempting to kick people out of Dufferin Grove right as the cold hits. 1/4

📣REGISTER NOW: “POLICING-FREE SCHOOLS IS DISABILITY JUSTICE: KNOWLEDGE-MOBILIZATION & CALLS-TO-ACTION”—FREE education event by @djnontario x @PolicingFreeSch 🗓️Friday, Oct. 10th (9am - 6pm) 📍OISE Library, Toronto Registration: forms.gle/DgvvrghwCRfh...

Friends, in Toronto, the Dufferin Grove Encampment is being threatened with a 9 AM eviction and trespass order this coming Tuesday. Connect with folks at the Encampment below on Instagram to support: www.instagram.com/share/_u5jeY...

Friends, OPSEU Full-time College Support Workers are on strike. In a time of mass austerity and severe cuts to accessibility services in various Colleges, we know that workers’ fight is our fight. 1/2

We know Canada and Ontario wants to build more homes fast, but we need to build them right. In the meantime, accessible homes are disappearing in Windsor. Build Canada Homes is on the horizon, but right now access isn't. Read more from Canadian Affairs: www.canadianaffairs....

On 9 September 2025, wesent Hamilton City Council a submission on their Housing Needs Assessment on housing design, housing costs, and home care as well as to echo the demand for the Mayor and Council to meet with unhoused Hamiltonians. Read the letter at our link in bio.

Councillor Spadafora's motion to call on the provincial and federal governments to build more prisons was been defeated this afternoon in a 7-7 vote

The Family of Service Model, Over-reliance on PRESTO, and a disjointed wayfinding—along with the introduction of AI into bookings—are all making accessible transit more perilous in Toronto for disabled riders. And what happens at the TTC echos out to transit across Ontario.

Tomorrow we'll speak against Hamilton City Councillor Spadafora's motion for prison expansion. Contact Hamilton city councilors to oppose this motion and resource communities: housing, mental health and addictions support, education, and healthcare etc. address these issues! ⁣

End Mass Legislative Poverty and build the systems we need to live—from our Federal Budget Submission with DJNBC and DJN Alliance. More on the Canada Disability Benefit here: v.gd/budget_2025_djna

Repeal Track 2 and build the systems we need to live—from our Federal Budget Submission with DJNBC and DJN Alliance. Our communities have been clear on these points since discussions on MAiD began and have now been fully validated by our peers on the international stage. 1/8

What is the Disability Justice Networks' Alliance? Read more on our Affiliation Protocol here: www.djno.ca/our-alli... 1/5

Accessible Housing Network has published its response to the Carney Government's Build Canada Homes. We need clear Universal Design and we need to make our homes livable, accessible, and affordable for everyone. Read our submission in various formats: drive.google.com/dri...

Urgent Call for Support: We've been asked to share an update on a GoFundMe we shared a few weeks back. Tiffany Felkai is a precariously housed woman based in Toronto who experiences multiple chemical sensitivity and has suffered a dislocated skull. 1/6

Friends, the Disability Justice Networks' Alliance has put forward an extensive set of budget recommendations ranging from Canada Disability Benefit to Housing to Military Spending. Read the Full Submission at: v.gd/budget_2025_djna @djnbritishcolum 1/2

Due to the current turnout, we're going to reschedule this one for September or October! Join us *soon* to take a look at more laws!—Erin Caton, Norrad Bouzide, and Brad at The Big Power Grab, Part 2. New Date: TBA Time: 6:30 PM Register here still: v.gd/TBPG_Part2

On 13 and 14 August 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities reviewed the experiences of disabled Palestinians. Instead of our words, we wanted to highlight some submissions from disabled Palestinians themselves. 1/10

It's almost time! At the end of August, we're closing applications to join our Board of Directors, pals. Check our our post on the djno blog or the link in bio for more: www.djno.ca/post/joi... 1/2

Disabled people are well familiar with Patty Hajdu as she has continued to fail our communities by maintaining the obscenely low Canada Disability Benefit. The Minister of Jobs & Families is responsible for pushing workers to defend the rights of all peoples on this territory 1/4

Lack of funding & therapy does NOT excuse placing disabled & neurodivergent students in seclusion rooms! It's an outdated & traumatic practice that has no place in schools. But it will continue because it's permitted @djno.ca @inclusioncanada.bsky.social #OntEd #autism #ONpoli #EndSeclusion

Join us in taking a look at more Ontario laws!—Erin Caton, Norrad Bouzide, and Brad at The Big Power Grab: A Series About How Ontario’s New Laws Impact You, Part 2. Date: Sunday, 24 August 2025 Time: 6:30 PM Register: v.gd/TBPG_Part2

Folks at @springmagca covered @pasan_to important prisoner justice periodical, Cell Count, in a recent article by Eric Shatosky that also mentions our Enabling Justice Prisoner Justice Project. Link to article in bio!

We know that Disabled Body/minds Must Be Fed and that we cannot allow states like Israel to deflect from famine and genocide on the basis of disability. Disabled Palestinians are not a cover to avoid responsibility, complicity, and consequence for committing genocide. 🧵 1/10

For @torontotodayca, @GabeOatley highlights the use of scabs by Villa Charities in their ongoing strike w/ CUPE Local 5525. Care work has to mean just work for care workers, pals—scabbing isn't just care for anyone. @cupeontario @oflabour More here: www.torontotoday.ca/...

The federal government is planning to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from the Department of Women and Gender Equality: a reduction of 80%. These devastating cuts would harm women’s health, safety, and economic security during an affordability crisis. #DemandBetterToday 1/4

6.5 weeks without phone or internet for seniors could mean missed appointments, fractured connections w/ community, & risks to health & safety. If that can happen in a space that’s monitored by a City, how does that echo into the wider private market? www.thestar.com/busi... 1/2

Friends, you've got a few more hours to register for today's panel as part of the The Big Power Grab Series to learn more about Bills 6, 17, and 33! Join us, Diana, Yaroslava, and Ahona to talk through these important pieces of legislation! 1/2

Towards Just Care is hiring a Community Engaged Research Assistant (RA). Applications close July 31. Submit your resume and cover letter to [email protected] by July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM EST.

Friends, CUPE 5525 needs your support and wants you to join their striking members for an ice cream social. Join them at San Lorenzo Latin American Centre (22 Wenderly Dr, North York) on Friday, July 25th, 2025 from 11 AM-3 PM: 5525.cupe.ca/event/c...

Tomorrow, Toronto City Council is going to be debating shelters, the City's Accessibility Plan, and RentSafe. On this last item... while doing more to highlight bad practices of Toronto landlords is good, we also need to make sure RentSafe actually keeps us all safe. 1/4

There have been a lot of laws passed in the last session of the Ontario Legislature. Lets come together and learn how these laws impact disabled communities and all of us! 1/2

The ever amazing Nelly Bassily, one of our Board members, on "empathy to fight colonial abhorrence and amnesia" and "global solidarity with and disability justice in Palestine, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo as moral imperative" Link in bio: disabilityvisibility...

At DJNO, we try to keep track of when disabled and other marginalized unhoused folks are being pushed out of social and wider services to appease the housed owning class. In a 7-6 decision, Thunder Bay City Council has now done just that. 1/5

Hey friends, From 28 July to 8 August, the DJNO staff team is going to be taking a slight pause on external facing work and taking time to focus on our internal work and administration. 1/3

There have been a lot of laws passed in the last session of the Ontario Legislature. Lets come together and learn how these laws impact disabled communities and all of us! 1/2

Hey friends, we've been asked to share the following gofundme from a member of our community that has been battling to get the care they need from the Ministry of Health for out-of-country surgery. They need our support now: Link in bio or www.gofundme.com/f/h...

Today, Brad sent in a letter to the City of Toronto to reject organized, reactionary attacks on disabled, unhoused residents and zone/build proposed shelters in six wards. "Toronto must be a city for all of us, not just the richest and most comfortable among us." 1/2

A few weeks ago, Dr. Colin Phillips, Dr. Alina McKay, and Brad spoke about accessible housing gaps in Canada. Find out more about Balanced Supply of Housing's (@BSHNode) research and watch the full webinar here: bsh.ubc.ca/research-...

Throughout July, we're going to be previewing or launching a few more things, friends! Today, our Education Project: Dreaming Safer Schools is coming soon. More details just before the school year starts, but get hyped for some new tools and materials from our amazing team.