ALT The Hon. Kamal Khera Minister of Diversity, Inclusion, and Persons with Disabilities

ALT CASE B HOUSING VULNERABILITY Case Overview Ms. B was a female in her 50s with multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome (MCSS). She had a history of psychiatric hospital care for depression, anxiety, suicidality, and post-traumatic stress disorder, related to childhood trauma. Ms. B had difficulty securing housing that met her medical needs. After years of attempts to secure appropriate housing, the Human Rights Tribunal issued a ruling to allocate funds to renovate her apartment. These renovations did not satisfactorily address her MCSS symptoms. A remaining option presented was to live in a small hypoallergenic space (i.e., a bubble). As a result of her housing situation and conditions, necessary to address her MCSS, Ms. B experienced social isolation, which greatly contributed to her suffering and request for MAiD. Ministry of the Solicitor General | Office of the Chief Coroner

ALT You do not need to have a fatal or terminal condition to be eligible for medical assistance in dying. If your only medical condition is a mental illness, you are not eligible for medical assistance in dying until March 17, 2027. If you have a mental illness along with other medical conditions, you may be eligible for medical assistance in dying. Eligibility is always assessed on an individual basis and takes all relevant circumstances into account. However, you must meet all the criteria to be eligible.

ALT Grievous and irremediable medical condition To be considered as having a grievous and irremediable medical condition, you must meet all of the following criteria. You must: - have a serious illness, disease or disability - be in an advanced state of decline that cannot be reversed - experience unbearable physical or mental suffering from your illness, disease, disability or state of decline that cannot be relieved under conditions that you consider acceptable

ALT Important: On February 29, 2024, legislation to extend the temporary exclusion of eligibility to receive MAID in circumstances where a person's sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness received royal assent and immediately came into effect. The eligibility date for persons suffering solely from a mental illness is now March 17, 2027.

ALT A comment "why are 96% of 76 people who have died Caucasian?"

ALT Service Canada Infographic pertaining to the Disability Tax Credit/Canada Disability Benefit tied supplementary one-time payment of $150 reads: Scenario 1 If you: received your first CDB payment between July 2025 and June 2026 and your Disability Tax Credit (DTC) does not expire or require recertification You will receive a supplemental payment on September 17 2026

ALT Service Canada Infographic pertaining to the Disability Tax Credit/Canada Disability Benefit tied supplementary one-time payment of $150 reads: Scenario 2 If you: received your first CDB payment between July 2025 and June 2026 but your DTC certificate expired or required recertification You will recieve a supplemental payment on September 17 2026, and a recertification supplemental payment in Winter 2027.

ALT Service Canada Infographic pertaining to the Disability Tax Credit/Canada Disability Benefit tied supplementary one-time payment of $150 reads: Scenario 3 If you received your first CDB payment *after* June 2026 and Your DTC does not expire or require recertification You will receive a supplemental payment in Winter 2027

ALT Service Canada Infographic pertaining to the Disability Tax Credit/Canada Disability Benefit tied supplementary one-time payment of $150 reads: Scenario 4 If you received your first CDB payment after July 2026 but Your DTC certificate expired or required recertification You will receive a supplemental payment in Winter 2027 and a recertification supplemental payment in Winter 2027, if applicable.

ALT "Three ways our spring economic update is making life less expensive: 1) Protecting the social programs we rely on, like the Canada Child Benefit, the Groceries and Essentials Rebate, and Dental Care. 2) Automating taxes for low-income Canadians, Lowering barriers to accessing benefits. 3) Building more purpose-built rental housing, With $7 billion in low-cost loans, and launching the Rental Protection Fund to protect Canada's affordable housing supply."

ALT Front of the folded pamphlet features a picture of Danielle Martin wearing a black shirt and glasses. It reads: Danielle Martin Member of Parliament University - Rosedale (Social media handles) "A message from your MP.."

ALT On March 18, 2026, the man was arrested and apprehended under the Mental Health Act, and transported to Victoria Hospital. At the hospital, there was an interaction with an officer that resulted in the man suffering serious injuries. As a result of the SIU investigation, Cst Stephen Farrand is charged with one count of assault causing bodily harm, contrary to section 267(b) of the Criminal Code.

ALT Cheng argued that the court was being asked to make a policy decision on MAID eligibility, “one of the most contentious, complex and sensitive policy issues” at exactly the same time as Parliament is determining the course it will take. A special parliamentary committee recommended in June that people with mental illness as the sole reason for seeking MAID should be “indefinitely” excluded from the life-ending procedure, and the government has not yet said whether it will heed that advice. In essence, Cheng said, the judge was asked to “go and stand out there and be bold and take a move that parliament is unwilling to take.”

ALT Will my life insurance pay out if I choose to die via MAID? This is one of the most common concerns Green hears. MAID is considered healthcare, not suicide. So, as long as it is provided in accordance with the law, claims will be honoured, she says.

ALT Screenshot from link to Ontario page that reads: Quick Facts System managers selected for the new regions include: - WCG (York), a workforce development leader with a proven history of helping people find work, , including working as the system manager in Peel already, - Fedcap/(Halton), a global not-for-profit specializing in tailored support for unemployed people, including those with disabilities, including working as the system manager in Hamilton-Niagara already. - The County of Bruce (Stratford-Bruce Peninsula), a municipality with extensive experience leading employment services in the region. - Serco Canada (Kingston-Pembroke), a national organization, specializing in the delivery of innovative programs and case management.

ALT Doug Ford is keeping legislated destitution active, coercing disabled people to die via MAID. Canada: 💯 Danielle Smith is keeping legislated destitution active, coercing disabled people to die via MAID. Canada: 💯 David Eby is keeping legislated destitution active, coercing disabled people to die via MAID. Canada: 💯 Mark Carney keeping legislated destitution active, coercing disabled people to die via MAID. Canada: how dare you

ALT Mike Bujold 🍊 @monsturmun 12m Seems like you are a paid influencer for the Rich, maybe you can just die. There is no room for these idiots. No Sir do not listen to these lies. Then it links to my post responding to his plea for disabled people to vote for NDP with their voting record. 👀

ALT Over the last three decades, the charity led by “Man in Motion” Rick Hansen has received more than $57 million from the B.C. government to support people with brain and spinal cord injuries The B.C. Neurotrauma Fund has provided up to $2 million every year since 1997 for research and services addressing these injuries, all chosen by the Rick Hansen Foundation. But an Investigative Journalism Foundation analysis of the last six years of annual reports for the fund found no mention of funding specifically devoted to brain injury supports or studies, highlighting a concern advocates have been raising since 2014. Instead, the money from the fund has largely gone to spinal cord injury research and health-care strategies, as well as public advocacy by Hansen

ALT Today, it has assets valued at close to $20 million. Last year, it received more than $4.6 million from provincial and territorial governments, including the money from the neurotrauma fund, and over $3 million from the federal government. In all, government funding accounted for more than half of the charity’s revenue, according to tax records.

ALT At Link 1 (DTC eligibility), the DTC's definitional criteria — requiring a severe and prolonged impairment that markedly restricts a basic activity of daily living at least 90 per cent of the time for at least 12 months continuously — structurally excludes persons with episodic conditions and creates higher eligibility barriers for those with mental health and pain-related disabilities. Only 16.6 per cent of persons with mental health disabilities and 16.4 per cent of those with pain-related disabilities hold a DTC certificate, compared to 47.3 per cent of persons with developmental disabilities (Leanage, Sung-Hee, and Arim 2025). Improving access to the DTC at this link would likely require legislative change to the eligibility criteria and CRA interpretation.

ALT At Link 2 (successful DTC certification), large administrative costs are placed on those with the greatest financial need. Only 15.6 per cent of persons with disabilities identified in the Canadian Survey on Disability hold a DTC certificate. The gaps are systematic: women with disabilities hold certificates at a rate of 13.7 per cent compared to 18.2 per cent for men and persons in the lowest income quintile hold certificates at a rate of only 17.3 per cent. Barriers to DTC certification include a 16-page application, the time and financial cost of engaging a qualifying medical practitioner, and an opaque adjudication process that makes formulating appeals difficult. Improving access to the DTC at this link would require administrative reform

ALT At Link 3 (gateway program access), the DTC is a necessary but not a sufficient condition of access to at least 13 distinct programs, ranging from home renovation credits (of limited poverty- reduction relevance) to the CDB, which is the most consequential for low-income persons with disabilities. Persons who successfully obtain DTC certification may face additional eligibility barriers to these programs. For example, tax filing is a condition of access to some gateway programs such as the CDB and programs that are administered through RDSPs, yet an estimated 19.6 per cent of persons below the poverty line did not file a return in 2015 (Robson and Schwartz 2020), and the rate among low-income persons with disabilities is likely higher.

ALT At Link 4 (benefit adequacy) the CDB's maximum benefit of $2,400 per year ($200 per month) is insufficient to lift most recipients above the poverty threshold. It is estimated that at its current level, the CDB would lift only approximately 10,000 of the roughly 911,000 low-income working-age Canadians with disabilities out of poverty (Scott and Macdonald 2024). Provincial claw back provisions further erode the value of what the gate opens onto: Alberta claws back CDB payments dollar-for-dollar against social assistance benefits, ensuring recipients receive no net gain despite being required to apply.

ALT The province has amended regulations under the Ontario Works Act, 1997 and the Ontario Disability Support Program Act, 1997, to provide clarity on who is eligible for social assistance. Under the updated rules, the following individuals are not eligible for social assistance: Individuals who are in Canada illegally; and Individuals authorized to remain in Canada on a temporary basis, for example, those here with student visas, work permits or as visitors and tourists. These changes take effect immediately to stop people who are not authorized to remain in Canada from receiving these financial supports, ensuring Ontario’s government-funded social assistance programs are reserved for people who meet the province’s eligibility requirements.

ALT “Our government will always be there for those that need it most, but taxpayer-funded social assistance should not go to people living in Canada illegally,” said Michael Parsa, Minister of Children, Community and Social Services. “These changes will protect taxpayer dollars and ensure these programs are there for the people who they were intended to support.”

ALT If you are single, separated, divorced or widowed You will receive the maximum benefit amount if, after subtracting up to $10,000 of working income (if applicable), your adjusted family net income is $23,000 or less. For every dollar of income that's over this threshold, your benefit will be reduced by 20 cents (20%). Link: https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/disability/canada-disability-benefit/amount.html

ALT If you have a spouse or common-law partner who is not eligible for the CDN You will receive the maximum benefit amount if, after subtracting up to $14,000 of combined working income (if applicable), your adjusted family net income is $32,500 or less. For every dollar of income that's over this threshold, your benefit will be reduced by 20 cents (20%). Link: https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/disability/canada-disability-benefit/amount.html

ALT If you have a spouse or common-law partner and you are both eligible for the CDB You will receive the maximum benefit amount if, after subtracting up to $14,000 of combined working income (if applicable), your adjusted family net income is $32,500 or less. For every dollar of income that's over this threshold, your benefit and your spouse or common-law partner's benefit will each be reduced by 10 cents (10%). Link: https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/disability/canada-disability-benefit/amount.html

ALT As part of the next national housing strategy, the federal government should prioritize reform of the Canada Housing Benefit to provide immediate relief to lowest-income Canadians and reduce homelessness, 18 while investing to stop the rapid loss of existing affordable rentals19 and doubling the supply of social and deeply affordable housing to reduce costs at the low end of the market longer-term. 20 Investments should incorporate a consistent and realistic measure of deep affordability, with rent prices set at 30% of pre-tax income for the lowest-income Canadians so they are not asked to choose between housing and other basic needs like groceries and transportation.

ALT Important: Applications submitted on older versions of the form (before 2023) will no longer be accepted beginning September 8, 2026, because they don’t meet the updated requirements. You will need to submit a new application if the version of your form is from before 2023.

ALT Community meme: "I can excuse disabled eugenics, but I draw the line at anti-semitism."

ALT A “hidden penalty” for the unhoused: The report reveals a severe support gap for unhoused individuals, who are often ineligible for shelter benefits.

ALT The Carbon Rebate impact: A major driver of income stagnation was the elimination of the federal carbon tax, which also ended the Canada Carbon Rebate and related provincial/territorial payments after April 2025, leading to significant losses for the most vulnerable. On average, these households received substantially more from the rebate than they paid in carbon taxes.

ALT Inflation eroding support: While many jurisdictions provided nominal increases, nearly half (41 per cent) of households saw their real income decline because increases failed to keep pace with the 2.1 per cent national inflation rate.

ALT The inadequacy trap: A staggering 98 per cent of example households were living in poverty in 2025, with fully 72 per cent of those in “deep poverty,” trying to survive on incomes below 75 per cent of Canada’s Official Poverty Line.

ALT Image from the report: a red and white pattern with black text that reads "Welfare in Canada 2025"

ALT Track 2 patients Once a Track 2 patient’s eligibility for MAID is confirmed, they should be approached for first-person consent for organ donation regardless of when their eligibility for MAID was confirmed. Unlike Track 1 patients, Track 2 patients already are required to provide final first-person consent directly before receiving MAID, due to them not having a foreseeable natural death. The new recommendations add that first-person consent needs to be obtained before transfer and admission to the hospital for organ donation for Track 2 patients as well. Another recommendation suggests that if patients want to receive MAID at home, but also want to donate their organs — which usually requires a hospital — patient requests for organ donation to be carried out at home should be considered on a case-by-case basis. “Further work is necessary to assess the potential for a medical, ethical and legal framework for donation after MAiD at home in the Canadian context,” authors wrote.

ALT CONCERNS SURROUNDING ORGAN DONATION FOLLOWING MAID - Donor motivation for choosing MAID: the primary motivation for a patient choosing MAID should not be organ donation, but rather ending their suffering. - Balancing concerns about donor coercion, while also respecting patient autonomy. If organ donation is not offered because of the fear of donor coercion, then we are denying the autonomous wish of those who want the legacy of saving a life. - Patients might find it hard to change their minds and feel pressure to follow through with MAID after deciding to donate their organs. - Societal pressures: concerns that a patient might consent to organ donation because they did not want to let their MAID provider down (if they perceived the MAID provider to favour donation), or they may feel there is an underlying duty to donate following MAID. Patients may feel that MAID may be in vain if they do not donate their organs.

ALT The government did not make Jobs and Families Minister Patty Hajdu available for an interview. In a statement, her office praised the benefit program but did not address questions about why the definitions differ. A spokesperson for the Jobs and Families Department said in an email that the “definition of disability in the (Canada Disability Benefit Act) is not a criterion used to determine if someone is eligible for the Canada Disability Benefit.” Fraser said the mismatch doesn’t make sense. “I have been approved by the federal government that I am disabled, and can qualify for something like the (Canada) Pension Plan Disability, but then under the same federal government, they use a different definition,” she said.

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ALT "If they want to try to annihilate Ontario, I will do anything, including cutting off their energy — with a smile on my face," Ford said during his first news conference since winning a third majority last week. Ontario is a major electricity exporter to New York, Michigan and Minnesota. "They need to feel the pain. They want to come at us hard? We've got to go back twice as hard," Ford continued.

ALT Dying with Dignity Canada’s exceptional influence is a function of how well financed it is. Some of the lobby organization’s donors have included TD Canada Trust, Rogers, Google Ads, Mackenzie Investments, Telus, Sun Life Financial, RBC, and Pfizer. (Pfizer also makes three of the drugs recommended by the Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers to facilitate MAID.) As a charitable organization, it received $222,077 in government assistance in 2020 and $204,655 in 2021, according to Charity Intelligence Canada. The Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers (CAMAP), an organization founded by a member of Dying with Dignity Canada’s advisory council, received $3.3 million for the development of MAID training modules

ALT 2026 Rate Increase Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) As of July 2026, rates for ODSP increased by 1.9%, based on inflation. This is the fifth rate increase since September 2022. Rates have increasec by more than 22% since then. The increase applies to: • basic needs and shelter maximum amounts for individuals and families • board and lodge amounts for individuals and families • the amount provided for a couple if both people have disabilities• amounts for services provided by a long-term care home or a specialized care residence For more information about ODSP rate increase, visit ontario.ca/ODSP or call the ServiceOntario INFOline toll-free at 1-888-789-4199 TTY toll-free: 1-800-387-5559 Assistance for Children with Severe Disabilities (ACSD) As of July 2026, the ACSD maximum monthly amount increased by 1.9% to $678 per month per child, based on inflation. For more information about the ACSD rate increase, visit ontario.ca/ACSD or call the ServiceOntario INFOline above

ALT Toronto Sun tweet July 10 2026: "WARMINGTON: Toronto's Zombie Apocalypse not a horror film but sadly very real" Contains image of what appears to be a homeless man in tattered clothing walking down the street in downtown Toronto

ALT Maher: Many people suffering from mental illness are pushed to the fringes of society, facing both stigma and poverty. Many people I work with survive on food banks and live in bedbug- and cockroach-infested rooms. You walk into these places and think, this cannot be Canada. To then offer them death deepens their vulnerability. Wiebe: Most of our assisted dying patients are wealthy, well-educated and in charge of their lives. We do have some vulnerable people, and it factors into our assessment. I look at people in the places you describe, with cockroaches, and ask myself: if the patient were rich, would he want to live longer? I cannot make him rich, and he has a horrible illness causing unbearable suffering, so I let him make his decision. We agree on psychiatric suffering being terrible. For both of us, our life’s work has been to reduce suffering.

ALT From Canada Website | Updated 2024: Eligibility of mental illness as a medical condition On March 9, 2023, legislation to extend the temporary exclusion of eligibility for MAID for persons suffering solely from a mental illness until March 17, 2024, received Royal Assent. The temporary exclusion was extended to allow more time: - for provinces and territories to prepare - to consider the Special Joint Committee on MAID's review of the legislation on MAID and its application - to develop key resources to help assessors and providers address these more complex requests On February 29, 2024, legislation to extend the temporary exclusion of eligibility for MAID for persons suffering solely from a mental illness until March 17, 2027, received Royal Assent. This will allow more time for: - provinces and territories to prepare their health care systems as appropriate - practitioners to participate in training and become familiar with available supports guidelines, and standards

ALT On March 17, 2021, changes to the legislation took effect that: revised eligibility criteria for obtaining MAID and the process of assessment changed existing safeguards for eligible people whose natural death is considered reasonably foreseeable expanded the framework for federal data collection and reporting The revised law also contains new safeguards for eligible people who request medical assistance in dying and whose death is not considered reasonably foreseeable.

ALT COVID-19 has disproportionately affected Canadians with disabilities, and highlighted long-standing challenges. The Government will bring forward a Disability Inclusion Plan, which will have: • A new Canadian Disability Benefit modelled after the Guaranteed Income Supplement for seniors;

ALT As a 20-year-old, Felkai was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. But years later, in 2017, while living on disability payments as a Toronto college student, she experienced a fall followed by a rapid decline in her mobility. She went from a cane to a walker to an electric wheelchair in under a year. Felkai cycled through multiple referrals in an attempt to understand what is going on with her body, but said she was often left feeling dismissed. Each time she felt like she was close to receiving treatment, she said, she was faced with new barriers to accessing care. Making her odyssey even more challenging, she has received seemingly contradictory diagnoses amid a shifting understanding of the condition and medical practices that differ by jurisdiction.

ALT Now, at 35, Felkai is standing on the edge, looking at the end. She uses an electric wheelchair and lives in what should have been a temporary neck brace. She has found herself at the limits of Ontario’s health-care system and medical understanding of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), a group of inherited connective tissue disorders. After fighting to get the treatment she needs, Felkai said she is now seeking medical assistance in dying.

ALT Felkai was diagnosed in 2019, by a U.S. neurosurgeon, with a form of EDS linked by some specialists to a condition requiring complex surgery, though the connection remains debated. While the surgery can be performed in Ontario, generally neurosurgeons are reluctant to do it for EDS patients because of limited evidence of its efficacy. Now mainly bed-bound, Felkai is pushing against not only the health-care system, but an evolving and contested field of medicine. “It’s been the battle of my life.”

ALT About the Canada Disability Benefit program The government has completed the regulatory process to provide a supplemental payment of $150 to all Canada Disability Benefit recipients to help reduce the costs of obtaining the disability tax credit (DTC). The amendments to the Canada Disability Benefit Regulations were published in Part II of the Canada Gazette on July 1, 2026. Read the Regulations Amending the Canada Disability Benefit Regulations and the Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement. Summary of Changes The main purpose of the changes to the Canada Disability Benefit Regulations is to enable the government to pay a supplemental Canada Disability Benefit payment of $150 to program recipients. The changes will take legal effect on September 1, 2026.

ALT Supplemental amount Starting in September 2026, the government will be able to pay a supplemental amount to program recipients. The supplemental amount is fixed at $150 and will be paid as a lump sum payment. A person will be eligible to receive the supplemental amount for each approved DTC certificate they have that entitles them to a monthly Canada Disability Benefit payment (including people whose payment is $20 or less per month who receive a lump sum payment for an entire payment period). Any person who received a Canada Disability Benefit payment before the changes take effect, even if they are no longer receiving payments (for example, someone who received a single payment in July 2025), is eligible. There is no need to apply for the supplemental amount. More information on when to expect payment will be available on the Canada Disability Benefit website soon.

ALT Service Canada @ServiceCanada_E Beginning July 2026, Canada Disability Benefit recipients could receive up to $2,450 per year, an increase of approximately 2% from last year to help keep up with rising costs. Learn more at *link*. Maximum Canada Disability Benefit payments are increasing

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