Sarah Colero

ANALYSIS: The Shifting Narrative Around the Canada Disability Benefit

Leslie Church's glowing article in National Newswatch titled “Canada Disability Benefit: Building a Canada that Works for Everyone.” Here's why it misses the mark

As per hotline:
- Applications expected June 20th
- Applications will be processed with Service Canada. 80% of applications via Service Canada are processed within 28 days
- Eligibility will be assessed via the CRA
- No doctor's note is needed for the application, but you do need one for the DTC

Canada Disability Benefit Applications to Launch June 20th, Says Service Canada Hotline Despite promising to provide the Canada Disability Benefit starting July 1st, the first round of benefits are unlikely to go out until mid-July.

GoC hiding CDB application details, disabled people dig them up:

Canada Disability Benefit Applications to Launch June 20th, Says Service Canada Hotline

Despite promising to provide the Canada Disability Benefit starting July 1st, the first round of benefits are unlikely to go out until mid-July.

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The Liberal party of Canada had the audacity to promise disabled folks help, hang that promise on a string for years, bait & switch it, and now say they're delivering the Canada Disability Benefit accurately & on time?

Fuck outta here. This is a complete failure, & will be even when it's delivered.

Canada Disability Benefit final regulations & delivery statement - March 3 2025

www.canada.ca/en/employmen...

Employment programs for disabled job-seekers shutter after Ford government changes Internal documents admit to budget cuts, propose employees skip lunch breaks

Doug Ford refuses to double ODSP/OW. Yet, his government also cut employment programs for disabled people. Last year, he also defunded a 'peer worker' training program I co-facilitated for homeless people on OW. Ford has abandoned disabled and homeless Ontarians. www.thetrillium.ca/news/the-tri...

How Ontario Parties Fare on Disability and COVID Only the Green Party has committed to doubling ODSP and OW immediately. None of the parties specifically mention Long COVID or have a plan to reduce infections in high-risk settings.

Only the Green Party has committed to doubling ODSP and OW immediately. None of the parties specifically mention Long COVID or have a plan to reduce infections in high-risk settings.

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It is *very* important to understand that Jews were never the only target of the 1930s Nazis and they are not the only targets of today’s Nazis. A Nazi salute is not only antisemitic. It is also racist, ableist, and queerphobic.

Hey everyone, there are items off my WL that I could use ASAP:

- Powerade❗(out)
- wet cat food❗(almost out)
- toilet paper❗(out)
- any beverages
- any food/snack food

Thanks for any & all help.

#HelpSky #MutualAid #MAV #MABoost #HelpFolksLive2024 #HelpFolksLive

My PP also:
paypal.me/noahfisk

Idk who tf is getting a kick out of ordering Rawrley's food and constantly cancelling it but can SOMEONE who has a fucking HEART and some DIGNITY and RESPECT order my cat's wet food? It's $21.60 rn before any taxes etc. I don't have Prime right now.

#HelpSky #MAV #MABoost 💸💕

This turned out to be the same woman Simon's used in that disgusting commercial romanticizing MAID.

People will say these were all “choices” - but to an extent I disagree. If someone is suffering from something that is treatable - or due to financial circumstances - do we not have a duty to help them before we offer them death?

Why are we taking the easy (and cheap) way out instead?

Woman with chemical sensitivities chose medically-assisted death after failed bid to get better housing A 51-year-old Ontario woman with severe sensitivities to chemicals chose medically-assisted death after her desperate search for affordable housing free of cigarette smoke and chemical cleaners failed...

Or “Sophia” who did MAiD because she was unable to find safe and affordable housing with her multiple chemical sensitivities:

www.ctvnews.ca/health/woman...

Woman with ‘unmanageable’ pain from Lyme disease chooses to die. She wasn’t always believed | Globalnews.ca Stéphanie Lavoie spent her adult life facing escalating symptoms from Lyme disease that left her bedridden and barely able to eat. Her family says the medical system failed her.

Or Stephanie Lavoie - who was sick enough to qualify for assisted death and yet not sick enough to get the Iv nutritional support she needed to live.

She was only 59lbs when she “chose” MAiD

globalnews.ca/news/1052900...

Or Normand Meunier - a quadriplegic man who did MAiD after being left on a stretcher in the ER for four days and developing horrible bedsores.

Neglect led to his death. Would they have treated him better if it wasn’t cheaper to help him end his life?

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'Easier to let go' without support: B.C. woman approved for medically assisted death speaks out A B.C. woman is speaking out about her experience accessing 'death care' with more ease than health care at a time when federal policymakers are considering further expanding access to medical assista...

Like this woman with EDS - who thought that being approved for MAiD would open up treatment options or palliative care.

Instead she’s been left in pain to suffer with death being the only option:

bc.ctvnews.ca/easier-to-le...

One of reasons I fear slippery slope into eugenics with assisted dying policies is how little outrage there is when disabled people are harmed

When DNRs are put on us without consent. When - like Stephanie Lavoie - we’re denied the care we need to survive & do MAiD instead

No one speaks up for us

Repost if BlueSky is now your primary social media site.

You can’t support politicians and political parties that spew hatred and division and expect that the hate will never arrive on your doorstep.

Disabled people are often first to be targeted - but we’re rarely the last /8

Giving up $1.8Billion in tax revenue is a non-issue to the Federal government. (Unless it's on medical cannabis, that is)

However, Spending more than $1.4Billion per year on the Canada Disability Benefit? That's an issue to multiple government parties.

Namely Liberals and NDP.

The amount of tax dollars the Federal government of Canada is relinquishing with this tax rebate ($1.8Billion) is more than the Federal Canada Disability Benefit has *per year* in it's budget.

The same government feels spending more than $1.4B/year on disabled folks is not "fiscally responsible."

spongebob and patrick from spongebob squarepants are standing next to each other Alt: spongebob with a rainbow and the word "dissociation" below it

It took me 6 years to build that and in those 6 years my disability has compounded even more and so it's like can I even do it again? I'm stuck and need advice or some shit 😣

I honestly have no idea what I should do. Lost my Twitter account with almost 6K followers.

Do I restart on twitter? Ditch it?

It's weird seeing people choose to leave it permanently when all I want is my account back to connect me with people again 😒

That platform truly held me up. I'm lost.

MAID TIMELINE MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IN DYING LEGISLATION IN CANADA

MAID legislation timeline in Canada

Meme. Picture of Justin Trudeau shaking Doug Ford's hand and smiling at the camera. Beside Ford: "$200 to every age & class" Beside Trudeau: "$250 exclusively to employed individuals under $150k" Bottom: " the Conservative has the more liberal bribe"

When you realize Doug Ford is more "liberal" than Justin Trudeau. 👀

Gentle reminder that having a loved one use medically assisted death by choice doesn’t mean the program isn’t a threat to disabled people

Once you hear “you don’t like our service? There’s always MAiD” it’s hard to feel safe again

Once you’re told “have you considered a rest”.. you can’t unhear it

March 2021 is when it changed

A plea to maskless health-care workers from vulnerable patients - Healthy Debate Health-care workers have a responsibility to protect their vulnerable patients. Our lives are in your hands.

Sick Kids - the leading children’s hospital in Canada - have not returned to mandatory masking despite most other facilities in Toronto doing so.

Some folks have shared my masks in healthcare article with patient relations - feel free to send!

Let’s get masks BACK to Sick Kids