@AShoutAbout

Retired/PWD - Community Volunteer - Disability Advocate B.C. ***send me an e-mail to - jleggat42@hotmail.com** Angry, White, Entitled people can keep scrolling

Vancouver Island
Joined January 2011
If you LIVE in B.C. & are UNABLE to come to the RALLY on Oct 5th in Victoria - please consider SUPPORTING us by CREATING a SIGN & standing in public Oct 5th from 1:30pm to 3:30pm in YOUR AREA or AT YOUR MLA office. POST on SOCIAL MEDIA as an act of solidarity! tag @AShoutAbout
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Jeff Leggat retweeted
That $2200 doesn’t even cover rent in a lot of cities
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We, the 150,000+ Persons With Disabilities in B.C., are calling for monthly disability income support to be made EQUAL & TIED TO the Official Poverty Level of Canada (MBM 2025 = $1950/mo) so that BASIC NEEDS like food, shelter, clothing, medicine, utilities are COVERED each month
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I have #appointments tomorrow (Thursday) my bank account is DEEPLY in the negative; some #help for #transportation (about $20-$30?) would be greatly appreciated E-transfer doubledouble416@gmail.com #ODSP #poverty #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #MutualAidCanada
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Yesterday, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance released its recommendations for Federal Budget 2026. We were pleased to see four recommendations that align with priorities Inclusion Canada and others have been urging the federal government to address: Recommendation 35 - "Continue and sustain the Ready Willing and Able (RWA) labour force inclusion program" Recommendation 62 - calling on government to "modernize the disability tax credits (DTC)" Recommendation 120 - "double the Canada child disability benefit (CCDB)" Recommendation 121 - "increased funding for the Canada Disability Benefit (CDB), expand eligibility and streamline the application process" This report is important because it represents an all-party report calling for the same thing and urging the government to act. We appreciate that they listened to us, other disability organizations and people with disabilities. Budget 2026 should now act on these recommendations: renewed and expanded funding for RWA over the next five years, increased funding to the CDB and the CCDB, expanded and streamlined eligibility for the CDB, and a transformation to the DTC. You can see the full parliamentary report below and the specific recommendations as referenced. buff.ly/rQtlFgn
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I was very lucky to represent people with disabilities who face legislated poverty, wsib failures, sex workers with disabilities, seniors poverty, homelessness and addictions associated, disproportionately BIPOC and female identifying/LGBTQIA+ and odsp/ow/cdb/dtc failures. I represent a few thousand voices, without an organization, solo and loud. Still filled with the survivors rage and societal injustice and serial social murder for profit happening at federal, provincial, territorial and municipal levels. We are at the table on this one. We are the largest mimority and a huge voting block and the more we align and explore the intersections between us, the stronger we get as a community. #onpoli #cdnpoli #odsp
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Why is it "acceptable" to provide less than POVERTY LEVEL financial support to Persons With Disabilities (PWD) in Canada in 2026 (every single Province!)? $2200/mo NOW! EQUAL & TIED TO the Official Poverty Level of Canada...period! #NoMorePovertyPWD (Persons With Disabilities) 🇨🇦
2191 Days ago a poverty ENDING #CanadaDisabilityBenefit was promised to #Disabled #Canadians @MarkJCarney @FP_Champagne @shafqatalimp Instead $10DC, Dental, Pharma, Ukraine & Military prioritized over the lives & safety of our most vulnerable. $200 monthly hasn't done fuck all.
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This is Lorne - our new Leader. A caring and selfless man who listens and works hard.
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Replying to @AShoutAbout
Carmen’s done nothing dictate average or the poor. He only cars about big business and jobs that won’t happen for years The country needs immediate relief.
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Rent subsidy would help to. 750 rent subsidy and wt least give people poverty level which is? 35 thousand a year?
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PWD in B.C. - due to yesterday's announcement of a PROVINCIAL ELECTION - on Oct 24th, the Poverty Level Financial Support NOW RALLY, scheduled for Oct 5th, 1:30pm to 3:30pm at the B.C. Legislature...has been CANCELLED DEMAND Poverty Level financial support NOW for ALL PWD in B.C.
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We, 150,000+ Persons With Disabilities B.C., are calling for monthly disability income support be EQUAL & TIED TO the Official Poverty Level of Canada (MBM 2025 = $1950/mo) so that BASIC NEEDS like food, shelter, clothing, medicine, utilities are COVERED each month. #BCElection
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Canada - a country with 1.5 MILLION Disabled living in GOVERNMENT-IMPOSED POVERTY... What a LEGACY!!!! #NoMorePovertyPWD (Persons With Disabilities) 🇨🇦
2190 Days ago a poverty ENDING #CanadaDisabilityBenefit was promised to #Disabled #Canadians @MarkJCarney @FP_Champagne @shafqatalimp Instead $10DC, Dental, Pharma, Ukraine & Military prioritized over the lives & safety of our most vulnerable. $200 monthly hasn't done fuck all.
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Canada - a country with 1.5 MILLION Disabled living in GOVERNMENT-IMPOSED POVERTY... What a LEGACY!!!! #NoMorePovertyPWD (Persons With Disabilities) 🇨🇦
On a scale of Dystopianism @atRachelGilmore.. Lower, Equal or Higher than the Government promising Disabled Canadians they'd be lifted out of poverty* (2020-2024) then cutting the benefit to $200 monthly (an 80% cut vs repeated promises*) but made MAiD faster & easier to use ?
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Don't miss the chance to hear directly from Green Party Leadership Candidate Mike Morrice this Friday at the Young Greens Leadership Town Hall, LIVE on Instagram and TikTok at 6:15 pm PT / 9:15 pm ET!
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