Good evening everyone, and welcome to our third and final #CripTheVote chat in the lead-up to the Hamilton municipal election. The #AODA is a law that was passed by the Ontario government in 2005, "to develop, implement and enforce standards for accessibility related to goods, services, facilities, employment, accommodation and buildings" by 2025. Accessibility is usually understood to mean the design of products, spaces and services so that disabled people can use them. Desi

Good evening, and welcome to the second of three online town halls in the lead-up to the #HamOnt municipal election. Tonight's theme is #transportation, an important issue that affects disabled people everywhere, whether they live in urban centres, or in rural areas. For people with disabilities, getting around their neighbourhood, town or city can be time-consuming, exhausting, and can often feel like they are playing some kind of complicated strategy game. Zach Anner's "Que

According to Statistics Canada, nearly a quarter of Canadians with disabilities live in poverty - more than twice the rate for non-disabled Canadians. This number increases for Canadians with multiple and 'severe' disabilities - more than 35 percent of whom live below the poverty line. The Ontario government recently cut a planned increase to disability benefit rates, and cancelled the province's basic income pilot programme. Meanwhile, many Canadian cities are facing dramati

With elections underway the Disability Justice Network of Ontario is hosting a #CripTheVote campaign from October 15th to October 20th for the mayoral elections in #HamOnt!! Many people with disabilities are directly affected by local municipal politics, yet cannot physically or directly engage their candidates with important questions in traditional formats for a variety of health or access related reasons. To fill this gap, the Disability Justice Network of Ontario (DJNO) w