https://globalnews.ca/news/9577056/merrilee-fullerton-resigns-cabinet-mpp

Fullerton is no loss. Social Services ministry has gone nowhere under her leadership, ODSP funding remains totally inadequate, and she showed zero interest in engaging with the sector (at least I don't have to wonder any more if she'll ever acknowledge our letter!)

Simply a mediocre politician who was in over her head, accomplished nothing, and caused a great deal of harm as a do-nothing LTC minister. Good riddance.

#OnPoli #SocialServices #ODSP

RT @DisabledOntari1@twitter.com

This will be my final post. I cannot go on living this way. #maid is the only help offered Im on #odsp and I was just approved for #maid for the 2nd time and I am following through with it I wish all of you the best and truly hope change comes for #odsp. I cannot wait that long.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DisabledOntari1/status/1597388126888300546

But critics say the government’s quick expansion of MAiD and insistence that it’s the compassionate thing to do misses an important factor. A massive number of Canadians with disabilities like Cowie are trapped in an excruciating cycle of poverty.

#onpoli #maid #poverty #healthcare #health #ODSP #ODSPoverty

https://globalnews.ca/news/9176485/poverty-canadians-disabilities-medically-assisted-death/?s=09

Ffs. I may have to go back to work soon for the first time in 3 years since apparrently I don't qualify for #ODSP. I guess, to them, not being able to leave your house isn't a #disability. They asked that I send them more medical history. I don't have any since I CAN'T LEAVE THE HOUSE because of #agoraphobia.

The most confusing part about all of this is that my partner is on ODSP, so since I live with him I am on his file... and after I sent in all my paperwork to start my own file, they suddenly said I need to go on #OntarioWorks, look for work, or have my doctor sign a letter for them saying I cannot work right now or they'd remove me from his file and he'd get paid as a single person. So my doctor sent them a letter saying I can't work and his decision for that is to be reviewed in April. They accepted that letter. So now I can stay on his file without having to be working or on Ontario Works.

So in one way they know I can't work and agree and in another way, they're telling me I'm not #disabled enough to qualify for ODSP myself.

RT @DisabledOntari1@twitter.com

This will be my final post. I cannot go on living this way. #maid is the only help offered Im on #odsp and I was just approved for #maid for the 2nd time and I am following through with it I wish all of you the best and truly hope change comes for #odsp. I cannot wait that long.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DisabledOntari1/status/1597388126888300546

Assisted dying: I couldn’t afford to live, so I asked doctors to help me die | The Independent
#AssistedDying
#Poverty
#Homelessness
#Disabilty
#ODSP
#ODSPPoverty
#Canada
#MAID
I knew I wouldn’t be able to survive being homeless for very long, so I turned to what I felt was the only viable option left to me

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/assisted-dying-maid-suicide-canada-homeless-b2233845.html

#ODSP needs to be raised so that people with disabilities aren't living in poverty.

#onpoli

RT @glimpsofkhadija@twitter.com

So, I don’t rant publicly often, but today I am furious. The @ottawacity@twitter.com launched an application for “emergency financial food aid to residents in need of emergency funding for food replacement.” However, folks on #OW or #ODSP are NOT eligible, & told to contact their caseworker

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/glimpsofkhadija/status/1530001960732065817