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Toronto hospital to open permanent supportive housing apartments for homeless people
Monday, October 7th, 2024
A new housing project for those who live on the streets and frequently end up in the emergency room is set to welcome its first residents in Toronto this month, supported by one of the largest hospital networks in Canada… The hope is that the project will ease pressures on hospitals while also providing stable care for vulnerable individuals… [and] a playbook for other jurisdictions or other partnerships between every level of government, between hospital and community, to try to advance concrete solutions for people
Tags: disabilities, Health, homelessness, housing, mental Health
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Advocacy toolkit: Preventing Canada Disability Benefit clawbacks
Thursday, August 1st, 2024
This toolkit contains documents meant to help organizations advocate and engage with government decision-makers to prevent clawbacks related to the new Canada Disability Benefit in their province or territory… To ensure that people with disabilities will receive the full value of the CDB, we need to request meetings with and advocate to provincial/territorial ministers, influential politicians, and senior civil servants.
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Here’s how Ontarians on ODSP are trying to make ends meet
Sunday, May 19th, 2024
… the low social-assistance rates in Ontario… are forcing recipients to earn money however they can. Living in what disability activists frequently refer to as “legislated poverty,” these recipients often drain their savings, borrow money from friends and family, or even consider taking their own lives… Programs like the recently unveiled Canada Disability Benefit, or even the Ontario government’s decision to index ODSP to inflation, not only don’t keep pace with the past few years of inflation — they barely address decades of stagnant earnings.
Tags: disabilities, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Toronto is getting a fourth emergency service. That’s vital for helping people in crisis
Wednesday, November 29th, 2023
The service, which offers a non-police, community-based response to people experiencing mental health crises… will soon cover the entire city… Police are, after all, not trained mental health professionals, and police involvement has all too often ended in tragedy. In contrast, 93 per cent of the crisis calls were successfully completed, and 95 per cent of people served by crisis teams said they were either satisfied or very satisfied with the service.
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, homelessness, ideology, mental Health
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Montréal’s ‘mixed’ police squads don’t help the city’s unhoused people — they cause more harm
Monday, October 9th, 2023
The squads add a layer of surveillance and harassment that leads unhoused people to leave the spaces they know best and distance themselves from their support network in order to avoid police… the report calls for a new approach to homelessness, including abolishing mixed squads and reallocating their funding to two types of interventions.
Tags: crime prevention, homelessness, mental Health, poverty
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How Toronto — and Canada’s — immigration landscape shifted because of one program
Thursday, July 27th, 2023
Provincial Nominee Program has diverted economic immigrants from Ontario, B.C. and Quebec to smaller provinces among other changes… first rolled out in Manitoba in 1998 and later expanded to the rest of the country… [Since PNP] applicants are selected specifically for their increased likelihood of participating in the labour force and establishing themselves economically, an increase in their share likely improved the collective economic outcomes of recent economic immigrants.”
Tags: economy, immigration, jurisdiction, participation
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The National Housing Strategy won’t end homelessness without supportive housing
Wednesday, June 21st, 2023
We found that having both affordable housing and staff on-site who could meet a variety of needs proved transformational for the tenants… To address chronic homelessness, the federal government needs to include funding for longer-term supportive housing in its National Housing Strategy. And provincial governments must increase social assistance rates to provide more income towards housing.
Tags: homelessness, housing, jurisdiction, mental Health
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Ontario has made slow progress to accessibility
Tuesday, March 21st, 2023
… 77 per cent of people with disabilities report having a negative experience in public or at work, while only eight per cent describe their experience as positive. These negative experiences… are the result of a lack of leadership, enforcement, research and accountability, and of flaws in virtually every aspect of the system, including “services, products, technology, buildings, infrastructure, careers, processes and human imagination.”
Tags: disabilities
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Moving from theory to implementation on human rights and poverty
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022
Where and how do we advocate for changes in the way our public systems operate so that people experience their human rights in their everyday lives? What can we learn from the way our community partners serve individuals and families? … the people who live with the consequences of our systems that are built to put and keep people in poverty, must be active participants in shaping the solutions that will impact their lives the most.
Tags: disabilities, Health, homelessness, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, philanthropy, rights, standard of living
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Ontario Ministry of Health reverses course on guardianship requirement for disabled woman
Wednesday, September 14th, 2022
Ontario will stop requiring disabled people who are unable to manage their own finances to have a court-appointed guardian to receive home-care funding as adults. The policy change comes just weeks after the Star reported on the case of Maggie Hickey, a 19-year-old Kingston woman whose parents were told they would lose funding for Maggie’s personal support workers unless they imposed formal guardianship on their daughter.
Tags: disabilities, jurisdiction, participation, pensions, rights
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