Erin Caton
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@CoalitionCA , Project Manager, City Councillor, Disability Advocate. Blocks people with anti-LGBTQ, racist or ableist posts. Personal account. (they/she/iel)
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@stephycha
I remember the group of girls at the university dorm party that my friend and I went to at 16 with our 22 year old dates, swarming us in a protective huddle and not allowing them to talk to us for the rest of the night. Quality women, who I hope have had amazing lives.
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My anti-vax truck driver brother was forced to get his shots because his route went over the border. He didn’t try to make his problem into a supply chain problem. He put on his big boy pants and got it done. His only side effect was a paycheque.
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My daughter told me they had a full school Xmas assembly today with no air purifiers and closed doors today, so she told her teacher she was allowed to skip it as it didn’t feel safe. She told me at lunch pick up and I’m very proud of her risk assessment skills.
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@monlemagre
@stephycha
They explained a lot of things to us that saved us many future experiences. So turned out well and we were thrilled to be hanging out with the girls more than the obviously gross guys who brought us. They made us call my mom too.
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I would like a family doctor, thanks. 😑
We promised to bring beer/wine to convenience & grocery stores.
We’re delivering on that promise!
Starting no later than Jan 1, 2026, you’ll be able to buy beer, wine, cider & ready-to-drink alcohol beverages at convenience, grocery & big box stores
@PBethlenfalvy
@fordnation
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The
@fordnation
government should be putting
@ServiceOntario
kiosks in libraries, community centres and city halls and paying the municipality to install them instead of inaccessible private businesses. Also, properly fund municipalities.
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@FfcLucan
@gavingnicholl
@thefourthcraw
If you think that’s sad, wait until you hear about how many people have died of Covid.
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I keep a pack of N95’s in my car for appointments and just gave one to the teenager who brought my curb side groceries as he was in a half ripped cloth mask.
@loblawco
you can afford to provide PPE to your staff. You should be held responsible for employee safety. JFC. 😒
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the only conclusion anyone can come to is -He is doing it for the kick backs and that appears to be how he operates.
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That is the whole point of puberty blockers. You give kids the time to consider their choices and prevent the need for surgical interventions later on. When you go off the blocker, puberty starts again. We should protect kids from politicians pretending they are doctors.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he's against the use of puberty blockers for children, saying "we should protect children and their ability to make adult decisions when they're adults."
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When you are thinking about a
#GeneralStrikeON
, consider adding raising
#ODSP
and
#OW
in your list of concerns. People “live” on a lot less, are at risk for homelessness and deserve to have safety/food. They currently need all of us, pushing together to make
@fordnation
fix it.
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Was just told that a person on ODSP who was about to lose their funding died by suicide as they would have become homeless. Why do we do this to people? We need a guaranteed livable income right now. Every life is valuable. 😞
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been figuring out what approach / messaging to take that would be ‘acceptable’ to Canadians with the intent of cutting our services. They became non profit agencies in Canada. So they can call themselves “Canadian” non profits. Our tax payer money is paying them to chip away
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"People need to know what’s’ going on behind the scenes as they have vague notions about privatization with healthcare and social services but they don’t understand the how this is happening and where it’s coming from. Ford 2 years ago brought in American companies who have
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at our healthcare and social service systems. We will wind up being paid huge tax dollars to then to have our services be made minimal and virtually nonexistent. They are calling it privatization – but it is privatization with these companies as the decision makers.
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Ford has opened the door for these are American companies coming into Canada-acquiring non profit status here & making huge amounts from tax payer’s money & allotting a small stipend of it for us to have our social & health services & to the mentally ill & poverty stricken & ill"
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These companies are really good marketers/sales people and know how to make things “look and feel” good.The tip of the Iceburg is that they are transferring ODSP employment assistance and supports to help people on ODSP find and maintain employment. They are moving this from
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from Social Service to the ministry of labour colleges and universities....going from region to region switching these services over to be ‘managed’ by these companies – making huge profits from this with ODSP and OW’s employment supports. They are paying our agencies assisting
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My kid was in a rainbow STEM day camp all week. At the start of the week none of the young staff were in masks. I explained our high risks & asked if they would mind masking indoors. They all enthusiastically agreed and took the N95’s I offered. Got them all gift cards today. ❤️
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these clients less than ODSP paid has done and I assume taking the rest of our hard earned tax dollars. They are distracting the job developers and counsellors working with the clients looking for work with at least double the administrative work and have put in place an alga
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rhythms so one agency cannot share a client with another agency – even though they may have different expertise and ways to support and help the client with obtaining employment. So why is Ford doing this??? There is no advantage to the tax payer – there are huge disadvantages –
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@jessica_jnd9
She masks all day long, takes her snack outdoors and has told a teacher who suggested she take off her mask for a photo no. We both have high risk disabilities, I have a lung disease and she’s not messing around. Super proud of her.
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This has grown beyond my comment policing time availability. So play nice, get vaccinated if you medically can, wear a mask and advocate for safety for disabled and immune compromised people. Have a good day and stay safe.
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If you want people off the street, give them a home. You can’t police your way out of homelessness.
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I met a woman at the door today whose husband has cancer and was in the hall for 16 hours with a paramedic, waiting for care because you won’t fix healthcare. But yeah, cookies.
Smile Cookies at back at Tim Hortons. Starting today until Sept 25, you can pick up a smile cookie for only $1.00. Proceeds go directly to local charities.
#supportlocal
#smilecookies
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Freedom to get sick, disabled or die. Freedom to get others sick, make them disabled or die. Freedom to overwhelm the healthcare system and cost us piles in taxes. Freedom to disrupt work and school with mass illnesses. Glorious freedom.
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I’m having a disability discrimination burnout moment. Would love to be able to do literally anything other than fight for my survival and access for just one day.
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So it seems the ableists and minimizers have found this while I was sleeping. Block, rinse, repeat folks. Name calling disabled families for protecting themselves and others for caring about society and their health is a look. 👀
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I asked my kid's principal if there would be CO2 monitors in the classroom next year, & if not could I purchase 1 for my daughter to bring with her so teachers would have a way to know if they need to open windows & the board told him no to both. Why
@ugdsb
?
@Mike4Education
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I tried contacting journalists about this for over a week and had no luck. But the person would be happy to talk to one today if they can be unnamed in the article.
@ConsumerSOS
@CBCQueensPark
@CityCynthia
@pressprogress
They also called their MPP about this.
@Ont_Ombudsman
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All businesses doing curbside and delivery should assume their customers are high risk and ensure staff are masked.
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@kellymclean74
@AngryLesbo
@monlemagre
@stephycha
In university we always had a sober ‘designated thinker’.
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@a_h_reaume
My latest ex still plays video games online with my daughter and babysat her outside during the pandemic once while I was doing medical tests. He was my friend before we dated and I’m glad we stayed friends after. So nice your ex is great.
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Living my Forest Fire fashion realness. Also my
@RoyalCitySci
hoodie because I want a Science Centre in Guelph so bad. Be nice to your lungs & wear an N95 mask outside. The air quality is terrible in Guelph today. It's super bad for you. You get one body, be nice to it. 😘
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Can disabled people, parents, healthcare workers and anyone else who doesn’t want another Covid wave and endless variants do a class action against Ford for removing protections before vaccines are available for all and hospitals are over surgery backlogs?
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@ESL_fairy
His wife is a paramedic who got hers right away so we’re all happy he had it done. He stepped up, so good for him.
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@Sflecce
@fordnation
@celliottability
Minister of Education can’t google a quote by Robert H. Schuller and attributes it to his boss. That’s something. 🧐
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Mad Covid scientist! (Mostly mad that we still have to deal with Covid) 😂
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This is excellent.
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Your family in LTC being neglected, folks on OW and ODSP starving unable to afford delivery services and rent, kids in crowded unventilated classes and no provincial sick days. But money for horses because MPPs families have horses.
To support Ontario’s horse experience businesses impacted by
#COVID19
, we’re providing up to $3 million through the new Equine Hardship Program to assist with animal maintenance costs.
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Single parents are allowed one friend during lockdown. I met a mom in a LTGBQ kids parents group online and we clicked. We planned an outdoor masked playdate for the kids and she asked if she could bring gloves to help me with my yard work, and you guys! 😭 She’s so nice!
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Today is the day my youngest daughter was born and died. Every year I scatter some of her ashes, and go on an adventure with my eldest. This year she swims in the river. My love to all the folks with forever babies and children. ♥️
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Yes!
@NDP
proposing the $2200 a month for their disability benefit to be started right away. National pharmacare! Carla has no poker face. Looked like she ate a lemon during this part.
#DisabilityDebate
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I stopped celebrating Canada Day after the news where we began finding the bodies of kids who were forced into residential schools on their grounds. Instead I reflect on the effects of colonialism, pick a local Indigenous group to support, & work in my garden to honour the land.
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New rule. If you voted for the expansion of MAID to include mental health you do not get to tweet about
#BellLetsTalkDay
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As a parent whose child uses her phone as an accessibility device in class, in a school not funded well enough to provide her with a chrome book because of provincial cuts, this is hugely wrong.
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Read the comments to see what happens when you design things for disabled people, without including disabled people.
Wheelchairs are essential in providing mobility and part of our efforts to increase accessibility, we are funding projects like this ramp at
@yaldei
.
#InternationalWheelchairDay
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When we focus on LTC as being seniors, we fail to notice Ford has been targeting disabled people of all ages since his election. Autism program, ODSP, human rights changes, axing UBI, LTC, all are attacks on disabled people. Vote out Conservative eugenics policies.
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The NDP’s ODSP 20%⬆️ is $1402.80 a month, $16,833 a year and below the poverty line. The Liberal UBI pilot Ford killed in 2018 was $16,989 a year with an extra $500 a month ($6k/year) for disabled people. $22,989 a year is just shy of $2k a month. This is the min for survival.
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So just to recap the 'logic' of mad people:
1. Caring about health (even if high risk for viruses) is a mental illness.
2. It’s okay to be a jerk about mental illness.
3. If all your friends jump off a cliff, but you don’t, you are riddled with fear & anxiety.
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Also one kid must have told their caregiver(s) because they showed up in a mask on the 2nd day. (No other kids were masked.) When people care about others in their community it makes the world a better place. Thank you to the kid and adult(s), you are appreciated.
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I’m trying to talk myself into buying a super cute sequin blazer because I’ve been coveting it forever and it’s now 50% off. Should I go for it?
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The disability tax credit asks all the wrong questions because it’s not designed for or to help disabled people. It’s to help the families of disabled people.
(It helps some disabled people, but not by design.)
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8. Calling a child names is totally acceptable, but not attending an assembly is the worst.
9. If you don’t go to one event, you are clearly being denied all socialization.
10. Pronouns & personal safety choices are meltdown level triggering, but we’re the snowflakes.
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Because it’s super easy to get a job when you can’t afford work clothes, have no access to a shower and have no address to put on your application. (For the mythical people living in tents who are capable of working.)
Ford today on encampments: "If ... you're physically capable, mentally capable of working, folks, you should be working. Simple as that. Because it's not up to these hard-working people to take care of capable people that should be working... There's no more excuses."
#onpoli
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What can you do? Call Ford/CPC MPPs & be mad. Call NDP/Liberal/Green & tell them to mount legal defences. Call federal & ask for healthcare protection laws put into
@CdnHumanRights
. Call
@Ont_Ombudsman
for more investigations. Indigenous groups might have data laws to lean on.
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Got an
@Omnimask_Health
for work for lip reader accessibility/photo ops so figured I’d do a review as they are pricey. (PJs not included) It has 99% filtration, work the best with glasses than any I’ve tried and is the most comfortable and best fit.
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Ready to do this! Happy election night everyone. It’s a sequin blazer occasion. 😁
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4. Fear is not an important evolutionary trait that keeps us from dying a lot.
5. An 11 year old with zero F’s & resolve of steel, who stands up to adults, must be living with internal terror.
6. Wanting your mom to live is a character flaw.
7. Employers prefer you sick.
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The Ontario building codes should have been updated after the 3rd review of the AODA by
@ONgov
. This has always been a
@ONAccessibility
issue. If provinces won’t update accessibility standards then
@kamalkheralib
should try federal indoor air policy via the Accessible Canada Act.
With a new strain of COVID on the rise and flu season ramping up, now is the time to consider what the pandemic taught us about preventing the spread of viruses. 60 Minutes reports, tonight.
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11. It's the parents choice, unless that choice is not the same one that you would make.
12. Human rights legislation is not a thing.
13. Disabled kids should be homeschooled, but also set free.
14. Statistics and science are hard, so we should yell at people instead of nap.
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If you’re donating to food banks or drives, PLEASE remember to buy gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free, soy-free and corn-free options. Also diabetic friendly and low fodMap foods. Many disabled people cannot eat what you donate.
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Hey
@fordnation
do your job, we are in crisis. Withholding healthcare funding and safety measures so your buddies can have privatized businesses is horrifying.
Guelph-Wellington Paramedics are currently in code red. That means ZERO trucks available in the
@cityofguelph
Or
@wellingtncounty
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#911incrisis
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@DylandeBro
@tweetto_rashid
@lauradodge
@DrJewelKling
@JuliaFiles
@DrNatStrand
@LisaLemond
@AmyOxentenkoMD
@British_Airways
I’m a tech project manager and have been replacing legacy systems for companies for decades. It’s actually not hard to design a web form properly to be inclusive of gender, Dylan.
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@m_layton
This is ableist AF. Many people, my daughter and I included, have gastro intestinal issues and do not always have advanced warning of needing the toilet. Are people to leave their babies in full diapers? Are folks with incontinence to stay in theirs? No one chooses homelessness.
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@undercovernerd5
@monlemagre
@stephycha
They didn’t try to shame us, so maybe it was approach? They called the guys out and said we should go have fun with them instead, gave us big sister advice and after we were there for a while they said we needed to call a parent so they knew we were getting home safe.
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So there it is.
@OntarioNDP
has it at 20% raise of ODSP the first year and doubling the second and indexed to inflation after that. Hoping that means $1403 turns into $2806 the second year, but will have to wait for clarification. Unclear from the announcement.
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If you were pro-life, you would vote for UBI, true universal healthcare, fair wages, accessible housing, environmental reform, reconciliation, disability funding, and so on. This is about control. Go honk about that.
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@RoseMGifford1
@stephycha
Thinking back we must have looked like foetuses in ripped jeans to them because one asked how old we were and who brought us fairly quickly. Another yelled at the guys too. I wish I could thank them.
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Hey
@theJagmeetSingh
@JustinTrudeau
@erinotoole
@AnnamiePaul
@yfblanchet
Why are none of you attending the disabilities debate? Why is the vote of 20% of Canada not important to you? It speaks volumes that you can’t be bothered to attend a zoom call.
#elexn44
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We got notice that my kids physical school has *just* been given funding for covid ventilation upgrades from the Ontario government. In any other job, this level of ineptitude would have you fired into the sun.
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I was just given this information and the person asked if the Press Progress group has FOI’d any information for their pieces.
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Shocking how having one meal a day, endless stress, bad living conditions in inaccessible homes, no access to house cooling or physical therapies hasn’t helped anyone on ODSP get well. Maybe try actually helping people
@fordnation
? Put money into healthcare and ODSP/OW?
Got my medical review back from ODSP, took me 2 days to open it. Still disabled 😕
After being disabled 10 years, I thought for sure that the pandemic and our crumbling healthcare + the never ending extreme poverty forced on disabled people would have cured me by now.
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@undersiaspell
@Sia
Alina you need a neurodivergent friend to stop you from posting these things. You’re being several types of wrong right now and need to step aside and listen to disabled people.
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The only way to make the sign up process for the Disability Benefit reasonable is to change the DTC eligibility to automatically allow anyone on provincial disability support to qualify with proof of benefits. The monthly amount is still only 10% of the min needed though.
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I know too many people considering medically assisted death because provincial support won’t cover their medical needs, rent and food. People who could live long full lives. You can fix this
@AndreaHorwath
,
@StevenDelDuca
,
@MikeSchreiner
,
@fordnation
.
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@StMarysGenHosp
So now I have to cancel the throat specialist appointment I have waited 1.5 years so far for because you were the closest facility that was accessible to my MCS. As I have a lung disease I’d rather not add Covid on top of. Waste of time.
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Way to libel an entire minority group and people who don’t want to become disabled.
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I tweet once about a Youtube copyright violation and I get contacted by many reporters. I tweet constantly about disability rights violations and get crickets. Nice we all have priorities.
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A third kid has canceled coming to the birthday party today because they got Covid. 😥 This is exactly why I planned a masked outdoor party. I really wish our governments cared about public safety and long term disability.
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@DalgarnoLesley
@Micro_Mama
Masks are still mandated in healthcare settings and transit in Ontario. Just not other locations or school buses (because kids are magic or something according to Dr. Moore).
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The Venn diagram of people who scream freedom and also tell disabled people to stay home rather than offer accessibility is a circle. If you can’t make something accessible, you haven’t tried hard enough.
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@fordnation
@DailyBreadTO
@CHogarthPC
@VijayThaniMPP
Raise ODSP and OW. Food banks do not cover medical diets and the money goes directly back to your rich grocery buddies, or even local businesses you don’t care about.
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Oh my god can you just raise ODSP and OW so people don’t starve and become homeless
@fordnation
? I’ll buy two license plate stickers. 😤
BREAKING: Sources tell me and
@ColinDMelloCTV
that the Ford govt is looking to eliminate Ontario licence plate stickers as part of a pre-election goodie. This has been in the works for some time. Would cost the govt at least 1 bil.
#onpoli
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@stefcyclops
@indepdubnrth
Lol, I love you. This guy clearly can’t be a real doctor. Or if he is, it’s one of those ‘my parents paid for my test scores to go up’ situations.
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Disabled people have applied for and gotten MAID for many social failures of government on technicalities of being disabled. No accessible housing, no food, no access to physical/mental therapies, insufficient pain meds and more.
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