.Statistics Canada's Canadian Income Survey found that Nova Scotia has the highest rate of #FoodInsecurity of all provinces.

'We should have the essentials. It's just our basic right to get those things,' says Debbie Simmonds of the Preston Area Food Network: ow.ly/mgt850RAj73

Signed and now sharing. Mike Morrice has been a #CanadaDisabilityBenefit champion for years, and this petition is asking for all the right things. Please sign and share!

Today, I asked Senator Marc Gold about the government’s next steps in getting the Canada Disability Benefit right – including a more realistic and substantial investment in the benefit so that it can fulfill on its promise to address chronic poverty. youtu.be/JsU73hX5Ubs

Ontario Divisional Court has ruled that the Social Benefits Tribunal’s ( #SBT ) practice of issuing “boilerplate” reasons when denying a reconsideration breaches procedural fairness & violates the individual's rights.
#ONpoli #justice
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The PFC Roadshow is heading north! If you are in Iqaluit, mark your calendar for May 30 for a PFC Info Session. Details are below and at peoplefirstofcanada.ca/infosessions

ICYMI: Our Board Chair, Michelle🌻, on bctoday with Michelle Eliot, on the disability community's reaction to the Spring Budget and the federal government's funding of the Canada Disability Benefit.

#EndDisabilityPoverty #WeAreThe27Percent
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Join us IN TWO WEEKS

Our reflections and next steps for the CDB

WHEN: Mon June 3
TIME: 12pm ET / 9am PT

ASL, LSQ, English & French closed captioning available.

Register here: plan-9.hubspotpagebuilder.com/cdb-2024-react…

The Canada Disability Benefit does not fulfill the government’s promises policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/may-…

The CDB, as proposed in Budget 2024 is entirely insufficient.

People with disabilities deserve better.

If you agree, help amplify the voices of the disability community by signing and sharing the petition at mikemorricemp.ca/fixtheCDB

#EndDisabilityPoverty

'Far from having lived up to expectations, the federal government seems instead to have remobilized disabled people and their organizations, as well as opposition parties, around the issue of poverty among this population.”
#BuildABetterBenefit
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'Far from having lived up to expectations, the federal gov't seems instead to have remobilized disabled people and their orgs, as well as opposition parties, around the issue of poverty.'

Read Société québécoise de la déficience intellectuelle Senior Policy Analyst & Advocacy Advisor Samuel Ragot's article on the #CDB .

“We’ve created a system where it’s just easier for disabled people to die than it is to keep on living,” Michal Kaliszan.

'Finding information about MAID — and applying for it — is often easier than applying for home care.'

canadianaffairs.news/2024/05/14/wha…

Ontario’s D- grade on Food Banks Canada | Banques alimentaires Canada Poverty Report Card is a result of the failure of all levels of government to act on recommendations to reduce food insecurity and poverty.

As a member of Food Banks Canada, and on behalf of our provincial network of more than 1,200 food

30-year woman gets #euthanasia #MAID in Quebec because of physical decline caused by Lyme disease. Family supported her decision since her organs were affected by severe malnutrition. But here again, explicit reference to inadequate care resulting in her decline prior to MAID…

Nearly 900.000 people in BC can't find a family doctor, yet #PWD must get a signature from a doctor with whom they have a clinical history to qualify for benefits. This unnecessary bottleneck leaves people in dire situations. Sheila Malcolmson @Adriandix
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$6/day is simply not enough. Many will keep struggling in poverty.

In 2022, we released a survey asking ppl about the Canada Disability Benefit. Over 1200 people answered. This is what they said.

There is still time to fix the #CDB . #PWD deserve better.

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Provincial disability income benefits are well below the poverty level & the amount proposed for the upcoming #CanadaDisabilityBenefit , a new federal supplement, is far from lifting people with disabilities out of poverty. How far? See this graph: Chrystia Freeland Kamal Khera

It would be interesting to see what would happen if the feds established something like, lets say, an adequately funded national disability benefit, a supplement to F/T/P disability benefits, wonder if this was ever thought about, I think it could work… ctvnews.ca/canada/poverty…

The Canada Disability Benefit does not fulfill the government’s promises. #Disability groups suggested ways to raise people out of #poverty that were not adopted by Ottawa, by Daniel Béland Samuel Ragot policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/may-… via IRPP/Policy Options Disability Without Poverty