Hubert van Niekerk OCT #NDIP 🇨🇦🇾🇪

My birthday is in a week, if you wish to contribute to my advocacy and disability survival, I am very appreciative, I'm turning 44 on 09/09. Etransfer [email protected] Wishlist amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/3E2… Thanks to everyone who reads, shares and comments. Special thank you to all my donors over the past year who have kept me going. #odsp #disability #onpoli

"Tremblay faces a new stressor: an eviction threat this summer from the Guelph apartment that’s let him feel “relatively safe.” “I’m terrified. I won’t survive it this time. I’m too old,” Tremblay said, describing how his trauma “comes speeding back so quickly” and can leave him overwhelmed.That terror leaves him upset to think how MAID is now potentially off the table. “I get angry and I get scared, and I see that in a lot of the people that I’m talking to every day on social media,” he said. “There isn’t any kind of a solution for it, other than more support.” At the same time, Tremblay wants to share a message of hope. He feels the national conversation may be shifting toward giving vulnerable people more of that support, citing April comments from new federal NDP Leader Avi Lewis around a broken system, with some choosing MAID “out of desperation.” “We need hope as a community,” Tremblay said." ctvnews.ca/health/article/ta… @avilewis @NDP #maid #odsp #cdnpoli

What do people not understand about legislated poverty? When you eat so poorly you develop illnesses like the sliding hiatial hernia I have, which untreated wakes me up in the middle of the night with panic attacks from the acid reflux and GERD. This has been caused by a poor diet since I was 17 and first homeless on the streets on Guelph. The agoraphobia from 6 more times being homeless has eaten away at my muscles. I tried walking to University of Guelph to take pictures in the Arboretum. When I arrived I was terrified I couldn't make it back, my legs were shaking, my spine aches and I was on the verge of Charlie horsing. This has been caused by trauma, terror and being forced to live in horrible shelters, or slums with terrible landlords that threaten my physical and emotional wellbeing. I have no money, ever. I cannot go see a movie. I cannot afford a phone bill. My rent and groceries purchase empty my account at the start of the month and no one will hire me due to being stuck in my room for days with agoraphobia made worse by not having money to thrive or even survive. This has been caused by gaslighting about fraud (odsp is less than 1% fraud, it took me two doctors and seven years to be accepted, lived on $733 ow before that) and purposeful underfunding of shelters, addictions, and affordable homes by Premiers and Prime Ministers who care only about their friends and bank accounts. It costs YOU, the public, to keep me in legislated poverty. Less than three cents from your paycheck goes towards social services, how much are you paying for a spa in Toronto, how much for the fake private jet scandal, why $5 billion to expand an airport with less traffic than Pearson, why give away mining rights to foreign companies or forgive billion dollar dues for foreign owned highways???? #Ontario spends $33 billion on poverty maintenance, new first month's rents after illegal evictions from an overwhelmed judicial system (on purpose), or food programs as we allow a grocery monopoly led by an Eptein Lister in Galen Weston. #Canada spends $80 billion minimum on poverty maintenance whilst a fully funded basic income would cost only $60 billion. These terrible choices by Mayors, Premiers and Prime Ministers to make you hate the poor, disabled and unemployed is a gambit to keep you distracted while they steal from your pocket and vilify the sick and dying so you feel false righteousness. It's time to stand up and demand action from all tiers of government, for your grandparents fearing LTC, for your sick or disabled children who just want a safe place to learn with support, for your neighbors who lost their jobs to AI or for yourself. Anyone can become disabled, anyone can become unemployed and that anyone will be you if these greedy politicians have their way. #poverty

Between this news of Ford's failures in disability job training, #DougFord telling us we are lazy, need to find jobs and stop watching the Flintstones AND the Maytree report that ODSP and OW are built to fail... WHEN IS THE TIME FOR A MASSIVE LAWSUIT? We can prove criminal negligence, the funding has gone to foreign spa scams and Ford even forgave a billion in tolls to a foreign country. This conservative government is costing you more, paying over $33 billion in poverty maintenance instead of preventative measures like ABOVE POVERTY LINE social assistance. We go homeless, we become addicted, and we die frozen to your curb. I have been homeless 7 times because of insufficient support. People are dying from self-harm, MAiD applications and dangerous conditions on the streets, in shelters and even in slum apartments. #onpoli #Ontario Source Maytree: maytree.com/publications/des… Source Flintstones: pressprogress.ca/doug-ford-c… Source Erin (Veganlovebunny): ottawacitizen.com/news/local… Class Action Needed!!! We ARE DYING! @BakerLaw_TO @pooranlawpc @djnontario @StlawyersOttawa

"I didn't want to die, but at the same time I didn't want to live an undignified life stuck in longterm care." - Michal, LIFE AFTER participant When the lack of dignified care options drives people to apply for medically assisted dying, the care system is broken. It's unacceptable to give disabled people the means to die, before supporting them with the means to live and thrive. We need affordable, universal healthcare, home- and community-based services, and disability supports. Interested in diving more deeply into the why and how behind this issue? Gather your friends, community, colleagues and and watch LIFE AFTER together. Available to rent starting TOMORROW on Kinema, Apple TV, and Google Play." kinema.com/films/life-after-… #MAiD #assisteddying #cdnpoli

Our two person team is proud to share #TheDisabilityBulletin Spring 2026 edition is here! linktr.ee/thedisabilitybulle… This issue covers the balance of #MAiD in #Canada, healthcare privatization, and even includes a comprehensive MAiD fact sheet assembled by me. Download the interactive PDF through our linktree, print and share it within your bubbles and communities.