Saving Money, Financial Traps, Solutions

Last week there was an event in Toronto ( details ) that was designed to help low-income people avoid, or bail themselves out of, financial ...

SAMS (Son of SAMS); Ontario's New Social Assistance Computer Disaster

In November 2014 Ontario launched a new computer program to manage social assistance payments to its citizens. This includes people who are ...

Deputation to the City of Toronto: Reduce TTC Fares For People on ODSP or Social Assistance

Here is the text of another one of my lobbying efforts; this one to Toronto City Council regarding TTC fares. A lot of people liked it. Here...

Submission to Standing Committee on Economic & Financial Affairs

This is the submission I did to Ontario's Standing Committee on Economic and Financial Affairs, on behalf of the ODSP Action Coalition, ...

Moving While on ODSP Now That Moving Allowance is Distributed by Municipalities

In May 2014 I got a phone call from Toronto Non-Profit Housing. They finally had a wheelchair accessible apartment. I’d been on the waiting ...

Poverty and Homelessness Studies Overlook the Needs of Disabled Citizens

Kingston recently presented the results of a 3-year poverty reduction plan for the city. A few months earlier, in April to be exact, Kingst...