Marriage Equality

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Graphic created by Democratic Socialists of Canada (www.democraticsocialists.ca) Caption: Photo of Canada, with the maximum disability benefit by province/territory, reads "The Most Vulnerable Canadians are Forced To Live In Poverty, There is a better way". Monthly benefits for BC 1,183, AB 1,685, SK 1,064, MB 1,036, ON 1,169, QC 1,388, NB 1,388, NS 850, PEI 987, N&L 985. Graphic created by Democratic Socialists of Canada (www.democraticsocialists.ca) Caption: Photo of Canada, with the maximum disability benefit by province/territory, reads "The Most Vulnerable Canadians are Forced To Live In Poverty, There is a better way". Monthly benefits for BC 1,183, AB 1,685, SK 1,064, MB 1,036, ON 1,169, QC 1,388, NB 1,388, NS 850, PEI 987, N&L 985.

Disabled Canadians talking right now about how they hope the new promised disability benefits are at least closer to the poverty line TELLS YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DISABILITY RIGHTS IN CANADA

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The Emergency Response Benefit was announced today. This means most Canadian citizens will receive a $2,000 benefit per month for the next four months during this pandemic. Amazing! We are incredibly privileged to have this in Canada. I’m sure that this will calm many stresses that people have been rightfully expressing around their finances in…

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Welcome to the first province/territory we will cover in this series – “Marriage Equality by Province”. You will be able to find your province/territory and see how marriage or cohabitation with a common law spouse will affect your application for provincial/territorial disability benefits. I live in British Columbia, where I first started to understand just…

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Chronic illness and pain life can be hard, friends. I’ve had some serious ups and downs since developing illness. How long did it take you to find other chronic pain people ? I tried to start a chronic pain support group in my community but that didn’t last. Eventually I figured out that all the…

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