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One in three Ontarians report skipping meals due to rising prices ctvnews.ca/ottawa/video/2026…
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More Canadians report skipping meals because they can’t afford groceries: survey ottawa.citynews.ca/2026/11/0…
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BREAKING: For the second year in a row, #Toronto recorded a historic 4.1M food bank visits, a 333% increase over 2019 and enough to fill the Rogers Centre 75x. @DailyBreadTO's new #WhosHungry2026 report reveals why hunger is becoming harder to escape ➡️ dailybread.ca/whoshungry RT
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Yukon MP and former Chief Medical Officer of Health presented a hand-signed petition on behalf of many Yukoners calling for a guaranteed basic income "aimed at reducing poverty and improving economic security across Canada".
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Ottawa homeless man’s shelter demolished ctvnews.ca/ottawa/video/2026…
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‘It doesn’t solve anything:’ Neighbours heartbroken after makeshift shelter near Mud Lake demolished ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/it…
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Happy Halloween 👻🎃🧟🧛🕷️🕸️💀
Have a safe and happy Halloween! Tonight the ghosts will be out and the candy bowls will be full, wear something bright and reflective!
Drive slow and look out for each other.
#happyhalloween #trickortreat #pumpkin #pumpkinspice #pumpkinspiceandeverythingnice #housing #ottawa #ottcity #toronto #torontolife #tocity #ontario #canada
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Ontario is the ONLY province that hasn't raised rates for singles since 2018 — a single OW recipient was $18,874 below the poverty line in 2024. Indexing OW would cost ~$335.5M — one-tenth of the $3B "taxpayer rebate" the province sent out. (ISAC)
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Feed Ontario: over 1 million Ontarians needed a food bank. 8.7 million visits — up 13%, 9th straight year of rising demand. 2 in 3 visitors are on social assistance. OW is 66% BELOW the poverty line; ODSP 53%. Food banks are a symptom of legislated poverty. #RaiseTheRates
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Canadian legal history: an Ontario court ruled homelessness is a ground of discrimination under Charter s.15 — the first time ever. If homelessness IS discrimination, then every budget that freezes people at $733 is discrimination in action. #HousingIsAHumanRight
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Canada passed a law in 2019 recognizing housing as a fundamental human right. Seven years later, Ontario alone has 76,741 known homeless — and the true number is higher. A right the government won't fund is a slogan, not a right. #HousingIsAHumanRight
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The minister responsible said it herself: the disability benefit is 'not what a person needs to sustain themselves.' She's right — and she runs the program. Raise the CDB to a level that ends poverty. That was always the job. #CanadaDisabilityBenefit
The Goal.......
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4.1 million food bank visits in Toronto last year — up 340% since before the pandemic. 1 in 10 Torontonians now relies on food charity. #DougFord froze OW at $733 while hunger exploded. This isn't a food crisis. It's an income crisis he chose. #Toronto #LegislatedPoverty
#onpoli
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Ontario doesn't have a poverty reduction strategy. It has food banks. $733 a month and a donation bin — that's the plan. Charity isn't policy. It's abandonment with a logo.
#Ontario #LegislatedDestitution #onpoli #LegislatedPoverty #ODSP #Canada #DougFord
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Ontario Works has been $733 since 2018. That's not a freeze - that's Ford's entire time in office. Eight years of power. Zero dollars of mercy. The Crisis Worsening each day while #Ford doesn't miss a meal.
#DougFord #OntarioWorks #Onpoli #OntarioPC
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Ontario's own watchdog projects 88,859 homeless by 2028. The government's answer: faster evictions — 7-day notices, pay-half-to-plead. They forecasted the crisis, then hit the gas. Numbers will only intensify.
#Onpoli #HousingCrisis
#Ontario #DougFord #Homelessness
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The budget watchdog priced lifting a disabled Canadian out of poverty: $14,356 a year. Ottawa pays $2,450. One-sixth of dignity. The whole program costs 0.2% of federal spending. They can afford it. They choose not to. #CanadaDisabilityBenefit #Cdnpoli #MarkCarney
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The Canada Disability Benefit maxes at $2,450 a year. The poverty line is about $27,600. That's less than 9%. Nine percent of survival, wrapped in a press release. #MarkCarney #BetterTheBenefit #Ontario
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Another announcement. Another pilot. Another framework. The press release is the policy now — governance by headline, while the food bank lineups do the actual governing. #Ontario #HousingCrisis #Onpoli #Canada #MarkCarney #DougFord