Media and Updates

2021

• Daily Bread Foodbank Podcast The 2030 Project “Trapped Behind the Welfare Wall on Disability Assistance”
  • https://www.dailybread.ca/research-and-advocacy/advocacy/the-2030-project/ 
• CityNews – Concerns expressed as province transforms social assistance program
  • https://toronto.citynews.ca/2021/08/02/concerns-expressed-as-province-transforms-social-assistance-program/
• Toronto Star – Ontario’s strategies to end poverty will make life worse for low-income people post-pandemic
  • https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2021/07/28/ontarios-strategies-to-end-poverty-will-make-life-worse-for-low-income-people-post-pandemic.html
• Toronto Star – An insiders’ grim portrait of life on social assistance in Ontario
  • https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2021/06/28/an-insiders-grim-portrait-of-life-on-social-assistance-in-ontario.html
• Toronto Star – Life stabilization on a welfare income is impossible
  • https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2021/06/23/life-stabilization-on-a-welfare-income-is-impossible.html

2019

• Toronto Star – City council joins growing wave of opposition to province’s proposed cuts to welfare for disabled
  • https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/12/18/city-council-joins-growing-wave-of-opposition-to-provinces-proposed-cuts-to-welfare-for-disabled.html
• Toronto Star – Help stop Ford government’s ‘extremely damaging’ social service cuts, city council urged
  • https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/12/17/help-stop-ford-governments-extremely-damaging-social-service-cuts-city-council-urged.html
• Toronto Star – Province offers no comfort to disabled who fear loss of support
  • https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/12/10/province-offers-no-comfort-to-disabled-who-fear-loss-of-support.html
• Global News: The Morning Show Radio Interview – Anti-poverty, disability activists calling on Ford government to abandon proposed changes to ODSP
  • https://omny.fm/shows/am640-the-morning-show/anti-poverty-and-disability-activists-calling-on-f
• CBC – Why Canada’s broken disability support system is needlessly costing millions, harming mental health
  • Opinion piece regarding deficits in the federal disability programs
  • https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-disability-system-pamela-valentine-1.5367913
• Toronto Star – People struggling on disability raise fears over proposed changes to ODSP
  • https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/12/09/people-struggling-on-disability-raise-fears-over-proposed-changes-to-odsp.html
• Income Security Advocacy Centre – ODSP expenditures have increased because the program is better meeting the needs of Ontarians with disabilities: ISAC responds to the Auditor General’s Report
  • http://incomesecurity.org/policy-advocacy/odsp-expenditures-have-increased-because-the-program-is-better-meeting-the-needs-of-ontarians-with-disabilities-isac-responds-to-the-auditor-generals-report/
• Toronto Star – Ford government cancels planned cuts to social assistance payments
  • https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2019/10/03/ford-government-cancels-planned-cuts-to-social-assistance-payments.html
• Toronto Star – Health care, social service groups unite to fight Ford government’s proposed welfare changes
  • https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/10/02/it-will-mean-more-hardship-health-care-social-service-groups-unite-to-fight-ford-governments-proposed-welfare-changes.html
• Media release regarding letter to Minister of Children, Community, and Social Services
  • https://defenddisability.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/media-release-letter-to-the-minister.pdf
• Toronto Star – Changing disability definition a dangerous mistake that will harm thousands
  • https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2019/04/08/changing-disability-definition-a-dangerous-mistake-that-will-harm-thousands.html

2018

• TVO – The PC Plan for Social Assistance
  • https://www.tvo.org//video/programs/the-agenda-with-steve-paikin/the-pc-plan-for-social-assistance
• Behind the Numbers – Smoke & Mirrors: Gutting Social Assistance without Cutting Social Assistance Rates
  • http://behindthenumbers.ca/2018/11/30/smoke-mirrors-gutting-social-assistance-without-cutting-social-assistance-rates/

2017

• Toronto Star – Disability Tax Credit Not Extended to Those with Mental Illness
  • https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/01/13/disability-tax-credit-not-extended-to-those-with-mental-illness.html
• Fighting for Fairness – Disability Tax Fairness Campaign
  • http://www.fightingforfairness.ca/index.php?navID=1