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 ...

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 ...

The AODA and the Lack of Enforcement

In, " Ontario must enforce equality rules for disabled: Editorial " the article states that the government is not enforcing the AO...

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...