2023 Federal Budget Submission
In Canada Disability Poverty begins at Birth
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In Canada Disability Poverty begins at Birth
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ODSP Action Coalition and Ontario Disability Coalition will hold our fourth #Rally4ODSP at Queen’s Park on Tuesday, April 25th, 2023, starting at 11am. Disability advocates across Ontario are condemning the recent 5% increase to some Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) rates as woefully inadequate to lift clients out of poverty and fails… Read More Press Release
Date: Tuesday, April 25th, 2023Time: 11 am to 1 pmLocation: Queen’s Park, South Lawn, 110 Wellesley St. W, Toronto Ontario Press Release Toronto, Ontario: Disability advocates across Ontario condemn the recent $40 increase in the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) rates. With the poverty rate somewhere above $2200, $1270 a month for individuals fails to… Read More Rally 4 ODSP & ACSD – Join Us – April 25th, 2023
Mark your calendars for April 25th, 2023 – the day we come together at Queens Park Legislature to demand change. The Rally for Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) & Assistance for Children Severe Disabilities (ACSD) is a call to double the rates and lift individuals and families with disabilities and social assistance recipients out of… Read More Save the date! – Rally for ODSP & ACSD
Earlier this year advocates from Ontario Disability Coalition and BC Complex Kids Society met with Minister Carla Qualtrough to discuss childhood disability poverty that affects families across Canada. We shared our stories as mother’s of children with complex medical needs and identify the barriers created by federal policies and solutions to prevent lowered social economic… Read More In Canada Disability Poverty begins at birth
IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE TORONTO, ONTARIO – Proposed changes, while great for those who can work, leave those who cannot work destitute. “We have been pushing the government to increase the amount recipients can earn before clawing back earnings, so it is good to see this change now. However this change only benefits those who can… Read More “Plan to Build” Fails Those Most Vulnerable
Rally 4 ODSP – November 1st, 2022 at 11 am join us to call for an end to disability poverty in Ontario… Read More Press Release – Rally4ODSP – Nov 1st, 2022 Double ODSP Now
Rally4ODSP – Join Ontario Disability Coalition, ODSP Action Coalition and DoubleODSPNow.com at our Rally Nov 1st at 11:00 am Queens Park. Hope to see you there!… Read More Join us to Rally4ODSP – End Disability Poverty
Wednesday August 10th, 2022, Ford government’s budget fails people with disability with a sub-inflation ODSP increase of 5% CARLETON PLACE, ON – Disability advocate Maddy Dever issued the following statement on behalf of many people with disabilities across the province in response to the introduction of the Ford governments 2022 Budget. “In a time of… Read More MEDIA RELEASE – Ford government fails people with disability with a sub-inflation increase of 5%
Ontario Home Care System is completely forgotten and is leaving Ontario’s most vulnerable families, children, adults, and seniors without critically essential life sustaining care. Nicole Payette Kyryluk, a policy advisor for Ontario Disability Coalition, shared her family’s struggles in a desperate cry for help and it was featured on the front page of the Toronto… Read More Home Care Nursing Crisis is going from bad to worse