Part cat. Part bat.
Interested in social justice and politics.
Nov 20, 2020 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Does anyone remember when a @CBCNews program did an investigative piece on grocery stores, about how they redress food (meat, cakes, etc.) past its expiry date and still try to sell it? Remember when @CBCTheNational aired an excerpt of this piece, and invited people to watch
the full show? Remember the concern the anchors expressed about this going on? If they were so worried about that happening in grocery stores with mildly outdated food, you'd think they'd be all over something like this food bank waiver, right?
Can we expect to see something
Nov 19, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Can @JustinTrudeau@cafreeland@fordnation please explain why they are giving food banks 100s of millions of $$ if this is the waiver they force people in need to sign? Just read it: would you eat this food, or worse, allow your children to eat it? All those pictures of food...
...bank offerings that people have been posting AFTER your very generous donations contain items as described in the above-noted waiver. Is this the plausible deniability defence you plan to use, when PWD start dying due to food bank negligence? Well, is it? Is this why you're
Nov 18, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I don't think I have ever been this angry. For @erinotoole to get up in parliament today & preach like he gives a damn about PWD, without even knowing WHY they are begging for assisted dying is beyond the pale. Then he gets his lackey MP Rob Moore to misconstrue the issue.
@erinotoole people with disabilities CAN'T AFFORD TO LIVE because provincial affiliates of YOUR party, like @fordnation are DENYING them the right to live. PLEASE try this: live on $1,169 a month WHILE you are paying MARKET RENT and have less than $100 to spend on FOOD and see
- cut a 3% approved increase for ODSP recipients to 1.5%, in 2018 and has refused to increase it since then, despite the alarming rate at which food and rent costs have gone up
- has hired 'experts' for hefty sums to try and cut more money from people with
Nov 6, 2020 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
When will our nat'l broadcaster, & in particular, our nat'l news @CBCTheNational start reporting on the human rights crisis ppl w/disabilities are facing in Canada? Why are they part of the systemic discrimination that PWD experience daily? @CBCOmbud@DahliaKurtz@CdnHumanRights
And to clarify, I don't just mean a 30sec - 2min blurb, with a heavily edited interview with a PWD, I mean a FULL investigative report. Last week the CBC gave about 20 minutes on prisoners' rights, not just once, but at least TWO times on one of its most popular shows. A PWD got
I'm not sure if you were in Queen's Park today, but can you ask Todd Smith if he's lying? He said that the govt continues to pay out 'discretionary' money to ODSP clients. Why have people like my friend not been informed of this? @CityCynthia
My friend is severely disabled and definitely could have used even an extra $100 a month in order to not starve to death, especially during this time. She can't get to a food bank b/c she has mobility issues, can't afford transit, is immuno compromised, and even if she could go,
Oct 7, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Why's the @liberal_party stalling on this? It's been part of their party's platform since about 2015.
Canada needs a basic income for ALL who need it. PWD helped build this country too.
It's utter stupidity that they're creating even more patchwork systems instead of
introducing a BI for all who need it. Does the @liberal_party just enjoy wasting as much money as the Conservatives by having a dozen different income support programs with heavy admin costs, and is punitively means tested instead of giving all Canadians enough to live with
Oct 6, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
This is a much more meaningful investment, @JustinTrudeau than the investments you have made to charities, and especially to food banks. My friend, who did not suffer from mental illness prior to being driven into deep poverty due to a debilitating physical illness, was informed
by her doctor that she is displaying all the symptoms of PTSD, and she directly attributes this new disabling illness to the fact my friend has been traumatised by trying to figure out how to live on $1,169 a month, after having to spend all her retirement savings, give up
Oct 6, 2020 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
MP @JulieDzerowicz spoke with pride today that her govt tossed hundreds of millions of dollars to food banks and other charities, rather than give that money directly to people in need, including people with disabilities who have a great difficulty accessing food banks in normal
times let alone in a pandemic. It is clear that MP Dzerowicz has never been in a food bank as a client, where it would be hard to believe they had received over $100 million. She may wish to visit the countless pieces of photographic evidence that food banks offer up rotten,
Oct 6, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
If Ms. @DahliaKurtz can't get an answer directly from PWD oppressors, perhaps she could contact the @UN_Enable@CdnHumanRights@OntHumanRights to see if they can investigate why both Canada & Ontario are in very serious violation of PWD's Charter S. 7, & UN CRPD Art. 28 rights.
A reminder: Canada chose to enter into a legally binding Convention with the United Nations, to protect people with disabilities, both financially & in every other way. The Charter is supposed to protect the life, liberty & security of the person for ALL who reside in Canada.
