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So: the once-in-a-generation, groundbreaking Canada Disability Benefit legislation to assist persons with disabilities amounts to $200 per month. This legislation was unanimously supported by all parties and most Canadians. A gigantic failure.
Too often overlooked by even the most knowledgeable of helping professionals. “Transforming Care: New Toolkit Equips Physicians to Support Mental Health in Adults with Intellectual Disability” newswire.ca/news-releases/…
Today on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, alongside @InclusionCA, DAWN Canada's CEO Bonnie Brayton spoke passionately about the need to pass & amend Bill C-62, the federal gov't proposed legislation to delay the planned expansion of #MAID to those suffering solely from mental illness.
Today on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, alongside @InclusionCA, DAWN Canada's CEO Bonnie Brayton spoke passionately about the need to pass & amend Bill C-62, the federal gov't proposed legislation to delay the planned expansion of #MAID to those suffering solely from mental illness.
I loved waiting on Chris while working at a pseudo health food restaurant in Uptown Mpls in the early 90’s. Amazing guy, gone too soon.
I loved waiting on Chris while working at a pseudo health food restaurant in Uptown Mpls in the early 90’s. Amazing guy, gone too soon.
The number of renovictions in Hamilton, Ontario, spiked by a staggering 986 per cent between 2017 and 2022. Here, city councillor Nrinder Nann talks about the city's new policy to crack down on bad-faith landlords: macleans.ca/society/hamilt…
Nearly every day in the ICU we have an OHIP-eligible patient with an expired healthcard. Hospitals forego revenue and MDs work for free. These patients can't go to Staples. If @ONgov wants to make HC renewal more convenient, it should also be available in hospitals.
Nearly every day in the ICU we have an OHIP-eligible patient with an expired healthcard. Hospitals forego revenue and MDs work for free. These patients can't go to Staples. If @ONgov wants to make HC renewal more convenient, it should also be available in hospitals.
Don’t ever forget that the difference between you and a refugee is pure luck. You did absolutely nothing to deserve the momentary stability you’re enjoying. So before you brag in your ignorance, check your privilege.
People who sit in the car and wait for that Led Zeppelin song to finish are my kind of people.
The fundraising team is welcome to begin their holiday vacation now.
BREAKING: Newfoundland and Labrador to launch basic income program for residents aged 60-64
Genie: Wish for anything you want Me: Unrestricted funding! Genie: Really? Me: Genie: Come on Me: OK. 13% admin support
I'm a teacher and a kid comes to me and says, "This is what I want to be called now and here are my pronouns." My response is "Thanks for updating me." And then I note the changes wherever I am record keeping. That's it. I am not a babysitter and I am not your kid's jailer.
Your idea to solve [enter name of deep societal problem here] is brilliant, but it needs an acronym.
Canada approves historic C$23bn child welfare settlement bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…
Clearly the #cabinetshuffle of 2023 leaves a question unanswered for literally millions of Canadians. Who gets the #CanadaDisabilityBenefit portfolio? #cdnpoli
ED: We’re building the plane while flying it. Staff: If that’s the case, how did the plane take off in the first place? ED: We started in the air Staff: Wait, what? ED: We were dropped by some kind of unseen force …
“Hamilton, this is where we’re at. We have a community member, a neighbour, who lives in a recycling bin. This is called an emergency. This requires immediate action.” @AlicePlug 👏👏👏👏 thespec.com/opinion/contri…
What will the rates be in order to keep people from dying due to poverty? This needs multi-party oversight. Looking at you @ChadCollinsMP @MatthewGreenNDP
What will the rates be in order to keep people from dying due to poverty? This needs multi-party oversight. Looking at you @ChadCollinsMP @MatthewGreenNDP
‘Overlooked & ignored’: This demographic has the highest rate of poverty in the country “There’s a sense that if ppl just go out and get a job, everything will be OK” “The reality is, that’s just not how it works these days.” #EndPoverty #Cdnpoli thestar.com/business/2023/…
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18K Followers 15K Following Helping charities fundraise, donors give, advisors with client philanthropy. Networking & digital business enthusiast. Opinions, my own.Sarah Jama @SarahJama_
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1K Followers 811 Following A partnership of community agencies facilitating student nutrition programs & sprouting healthy relationships with food.Tom Flood @tomflood1
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20K Followers 493 Following Hamiltonian, publisher of https://t.co/QQon0A3CvWVEGWORLD Magazine @VegWorldMag
67K Followers 4K Following 🌱 The world's #1 digital vegan lifestyle magazine 📖 FREE to read! 📢 Highlighting the best in vegan food, products, business, beauty, news, and more!Ann Garvin @AnnGarvin_
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59K Followers 3K Following Your garbage mom; wrote AND I DO NOT FORGIVE YOU; HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE ‘25; rep’d by @KentDWolf; I just want you to be happy, honeyThe Vegan Society @TheVeganSociety
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221K Followers 352 FollowingTweets of Dogs @TweeetsOfDogs
72K Followers 1K Following Welcome to the "Tweets of Dogs" This is a place to share your animal love!Kojo's Corner @KojosCorner
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101K Followers 1 FollowingLakota Man @LakotaMan1
529K Followers 19K Following Oglala Lakota —Enrolled at Pine Ridge, S.D. — “The earth sings her revolution, she calls brave men and women to her defense.” — The only easy day was yesterday.Stevie Joe Payne @StevijoPayne
68K Followers 15K Following U. S. Navy 1961-1965. I am a high school dropout who finished high school at 23 post navy, started college at 29, and graduated at 57. Sense of humor 27½ %.Sandra Bernhard @SandraBernhard
239K Followers 578 Following #Sandyland @RadioAndySiriusXM Thursdays 1PM EST Kids! Comedian, Actress, Author, Personality, SingerThe 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.)
A bit of clarity about the term “moral entrepreneur,” which I learned about this week from a new paper in a scientific journal that maps the moral panic about prescribed safer supply in BC. (If you haven’t read it, you should!) Moral entrepreneurs are “key players in the…
I work in mental health & addictions where I have experienced complex trauma and vicarious trauma. After many years I finally have benefits. $300 / year for therapy. Therapy is $140 / session. Two sessions are covered through benefits. Make it make sense.
1860's: We physically raised central Chicago to improve the sewer system and stop cholera! 2024: We can't install portable air filtration and UV systems in hospitals to stop c.ovi.d and other airborne diseases. We'd have to change the filters and bulbs! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_o…
We are finally over the finish line in #HamOnt on the #VacantUnitTax with Council’s approval today of the new vacant unit tax by-law which aims to increase housing supply. Five years in the making since I first led on the issue in 2019.
The City's new residential Vacant Unit Tax (VUT) bylaw aims to increase the supply of housing in the City by encouraging residential property owners to keep their properties occupied rather than vacant. Release >> hamilton.ca/city-council/n…
Slight change: We’re going with Executive Senior Management Team now. Please make sure your PPT templates reflect this change.
Check that: The name has been changed again. Now it’s the Senior Executive Team.
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Pro-lifers don't like complexity. At 17 weeks my placenta detached and he was much too small. I thought I felt my baby's frantic attempts to breathe. My OBGYN advised me to terminate the pregnancy, there wasn't much time. But I couldn't.
I'm a teacher in Tennessee. I was an active duty Marine. I know how to handle a weapon. I can assure you these people have never experienced an actual working high school classroom or they wouldn't be passing this nonsense. A child will die because of this.
Tennessee Republicans just cut off debate and passed a bill to arm teachers in our schools. The public chanted “Blood on your hands!” as the Speaker ordered troopers to clear the gallery. This is what fascism looks like.
Torontonians donate over $100,000 and counting to Umar Zameer’s legal bills. “These are not just lawyers. These are angels,” Umar Zameer said, addressing his lawyers following his acquittal on all charges. trib.al/l3ngfSu
Y'all I just discovered that in return for donating his art collection, John Waters asked the Baltimore Museum of Art to name bathrooms after him. And they did. And they're gender-neutral.
A friend from the DTES who I hadn't spoken to in a couple of years reached out after he saw me on the news talking about decriminalization and safer supply. He said he went to detox because the fentanyl was destroying him physically and mentally. After detox though he isn’t on…
Midwest peer pressure is when your neighbor just mowed their lawn and you now have 24 hours to respond
Effective immediately, I have resigned from Minister @KamalKheraLib Disability Advisory Group. I am deeply disappointed in what #Budget2024 provided for the Canada Disability Benefit. Read my full letter here.
Why do we undervalue the lives of disabled people so much? Why do we expect them to survive on a disability benefit that keeps them below poverty line - especially when being chronically ill drives expenses up? I spoke to a friend about this & was shocked by the response 🧵/1
Before we can move forward with the most basically obvious idea imaginable, we need to build consensus on a strategy.
***MUST READ*** Why I Left Public Education I spent 21 years in Hamilton schools. Drastic budget cuts and a rise in violence caused me to leave that world for good. macleans.ca/society/why-i-…
So: the once-in-a-generation, groundbreaking Canada Disability Benefit legislation to assist persons with disabilities amounts to $200 per month. This legislation was unanimously supported by all parties and most Canadians. A gigantic failure.
"All i can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish." - Robert Plant
This is way better than self checkout.