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Disability Justice Network of Ontario
@djno.ca
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Creating a world where people with disabilities are free to be.
- Website: http://djno.ca
- Support: [email protected]
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We also run enablingjustice.com!
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Announcing new prisoner support lines! Share with folx in custody to call us collect from any jail/prison in so-called ontario. Interested in volunteering? Visit our links in bio to learn more.

navy background with a white line drawing of a corded telephone with DJNO and Enabling Justice's logos in white. the slide is titled Prisoner Support Lines. Yellow font below reads "call collect from any jail/prison in Ontario" with the following bullet points: access resources, get support, receive printed materials, report prison conditions. On the bottom right is a swipe bubble with an arrow directing to swipe left navy background with Prisoner Support Lines titled in a white bubble in black text in Open Dyslexic font. The following 10 prisoner support lines are in yellow text Prisoner Support Lines Hamilton 905-631-4084 Kenora/North 807-548-4312 Kingston 613-881-0050 London/West 519-690-0836 Milton/GTA 416-775-7983 Niagara 905-227-5066 Ottawa/East 613-768-9951 Penetanguishene 705-797-7002 Sudbury 705-522 7136 Warkworth 705-270-8073 in a navy background with a white box bordered in yellow are black and white logos of DJNO and Enabling Justice with two arrows at the bottom pointing at a QR code that leads to the Enabling Justice websites. In between is the following description: Enabling Justice is a project of Disability Justice Network of Ontario that supports Racialized and Disabled Youth and Adults, their loved ones, supporters, and support workers navigate the criminal legal system and systems that intersect with it. This QR Code contains a link to our recent digital toolkits, which include resources for: For disabled and racialized youth being criminalized For disabled and racialized adults being criminalized A printable toolkit for those already in prison Family and friends of those being criminalized, with resources and tips on how to support. Professionals working within the criminal legal system on how to support clients who are racialized and disabled. Navy background with a title in yellow text that reads "Interested in volunteering?" The description in white text reads: Weekly / biweekly shift commitment 9 AM to 1 PM 1 PM to 5 PM 5 PM to 8 PM must have access to quiet space with stable phone and internet connection communicate with the team via internal chat Below the description is an email contact image of a blue envelope with the email pjp_phoneline@djno.ca, a blue QR code to the volunteer application form, and an blue image that says "link in bio" with a cursor image above it
December 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Read the full report at the link in bio or: tr.ee/l2BTAsl6qz
(we're working on getting a more accessibly formatted copy of the report)
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Alt: Both images contain a text-based report announcement with a purple background. At the top, large yellow text reads, "The Federal Housing Advocate’s Report on Visit to Southern Ontario re: Encampments." Below this, there is a white rounded rectangle with black text detailing the visit by the Federal Housing Advocate to Southern Ontario between September 21 and 26, 2025. The text in the second tweet paragraph of the quoted text above is found in the first image, and the third through fifth tweets is found in the second image. The number "1" or "2" in white bold font appears in the bottom right corner of each image respectively.
December 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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-Support Indigenous + Migrant Unhoused Community Members.
-Address gender-based, systemic violence.
-Implement strategies/resources re: extreme weather year-round.
-Protect + empower community organizations, ending retaliation/surveillance against service providers/advocates.
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Alt: Both images contain a text-based report announcement with a purple background. At the top, large yellow text reads, "The Federal Housing Advocate’s Report on Visit to Southern Ontario re: Encampments." Below this, there is a white rounded rectangle with black text detailing the visit by the Federal Housing Advocate to Southern Ontario between September 21 and 26, 2025. The text in the second tweet paragraph of the quoted text above is found in the first image, and the third through fifth tweets is found in the second image. The number "1" or "2" in white bold font appears in the bottom right corner of each image respectively.
December 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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- Develop and maintain real federal investments.
- End forced encampment evictions and the criminalization of homelessness.
- Stop using coercive methods that force people to choose between the harms of an eviction and inadequate housing.
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Alt: Both images contain a text-based report announcement with a purple background. At the top, large yellow text reads, "The Federal Housing Advocate’s Report on Visit to Southern Ontario re: Encampments." Below this, there is a white rounded rectangle with black text detailing the visit by the Federal Housing Advocate to Southern Ontario between September 21 and 26, 2025. The text in the second tweet paragraph of the quoted text above is found in the first image, and the third through fifth tweets is found in the second image. The number "1" or "2" in white bold font appears in the bottom right corner of each image respectively.
December 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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The purpose of the trip was to assess how federal, provincial, and municipal responses to encampments are impacting people’s lives and to monitor the implementation of federal investments. The Report is now live and makes critical recommendations to:
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Alt: Both images contain a text-based report announcement with a purple background. At the top, large yellow text reads, "The Federal Housing Advocate’s Report on Visit to Southern Ontario re: Encampments." Below this, there is a white rounded rectangle with black text detailing the visit by the Federal Housing Advocate to Southern Ontario between September 21 and 26, 2025. The text in the second tweet paragraph of the quoted text above is found in the first image, and the third through fifth tweets is found in the second image. The number "1" or "2" in white bold font appears in the bottom right corner of each image respectively.
December 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Between 21 and 26 September 2025, the Federal Housing Advocate visited the Southern Ontario (Region of Waterloo, London, Hamilton, and Toronto to hear directly from residents of homeless encampments, frontline workers, community organizations, and local politicians.
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Alt: Both images contain a text-based report announcement with a purple background. At the top, large yellow text reads, "The Federal Housing Advocate’s Report on Visit to Southern Ontario re: Encampments." Below this, there is a white rounded rectangle with black text detailing the visit by the Federal Housing Advocate to Southern Ontario between September 21 and 26, 2025. The text in the second tweet paragraph of the quoted text above is found in the first image, and the third through fifth tweets is found in the second image. The number "1" or "2" in white bold font appears in the bottom right corner of each image respectively.
December 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Friends, the report on encampments in Southern Ontario is out and the recommendations reflect the demands of our communities.
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Alt: Both images contain a text-based report announcement with a purple background. At the top, large yellow text reads, "The Federal Housing Advocate’s Report on Visit to Southern Ontario re: Encampments." Below this, there is a white rounded rectangle with black text detailing the visit by the Federal Housing Advocate to Southern Ontario between September 21 and 26, 2025. The text in the second tweet paragraph of the quoted text above is found in the first image, and the third through fifth tweets is found in the second image. The number "1" or "2" in white bold font appears in the bottom right corner of each image respectively.
December 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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But we still have much to do:
• Greater Eligibility for WSIB, CPP-D, and member programs like CNIB Cardholders.
• More accessible, simpler registration.
• Move from 50% to free transit for all disabled and low-income riders."
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Alt: The image features two vehicles set against a green background. On the left is a white DARTS access van viewed from an angle showing the side and front. On the right is a bus with a large display reading "5C WEST HAMILTON MD WEST HAMILTON LOOP" on the front. Below the vehicles is a black and yellow rectangular text box with a bold message reading: "We Won A Big Victory But More Needs To Be Done." Below the main text is a paragraph reading: "Yesterday, our Coalition and the ACPD (as HSR staff noted) created the pressure and conditions to increase the Fare Assist Discount from 30% to 50% (back to the discount level of the previous paid pass program) effective 1 January 2026. But we still have much to do: • Greater Eligibility for WSIB, CPP-D, and member programs like CNIB Cardholders. • More accessible, simpler registration. • Move from 50% to free transit for all disabled and low-income riders.". At the bottom, a yellow strip displays the text "Hamilton Disabled Transit Coalition."
December 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Yesterday, our Disabled Transit Coalition and the ACPD (as HSR staff noted) created the pressure and conditions to increase the Fare Assist Discount from 30% to 50% (back to the discount level of the previous paid pass program) effective 1 January 2026.
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Alt: The image features two vehicles set against a green background. On the left is a white DARTS access van viewed from an angle showing the side and front. On the right is a bus with a large display reading "5C WEST HAMILTON MD WEST HAMILTON LOOP" on the front. Below the vehicles is a black and yellow rectangular text box with a bold message reading: "We Won A Big Victory But More Needs To Be Done." Below the main text is a paragraph reading: "Yesterday, our Coalition and the ACPD (as HSR staff noted) created the pressure and conditions to increase the Fare Assist Discount from 30% to 50% (back to the discount level of the previous paid pass program) effective 1 January 2026. But we still have much to do: • Greater Eligibility for WSIB, CPP-D, and member programs like CNIB Cardholders. • More accessible, simpler registration. • Move from 50% to free transit for all disabled and low-income riders.". At the bottom, a yellow strip displays the text "Hamilton Disabled Transit Coalition."
December 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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This ‘Giving Tuesday’, consider donating to a non-charity like DJNO. While we are not a charity, our work benefits the whole of disabled communities around Ontario—let’s keep it going!

See your options to donate at: djno.ca/donate
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December 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Support DJNO on ‘Giving Tuesday’ Friends, DJNO needs your support now more than ever. Our Communities need more support and we want to build structures to make that happen—on housing, home care, transit and social assistance—all areas we aren’t actually funded to work on.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Friends, it’s time to respond again on Fare Assist in Hamilton! Sign up to delegate to Public Works Committee by noon tomorrow!

Sahra on our team (sahra@djno.ca) can help get you connected to the reports and help you register! Let’s make a more accessible Hamilton now!
Alt: background and a prominent section showcasing a city bus. The bus sign reads "5C West Hamilton to West Hamilton Loop" and displays a wheelchair accessibility symbol. Below the bus, there is a bold yellow title block with black text: "Disabled Hamiltonians Need Transit Access." Underneath, a white block of text encourages residents to inform the City Council about the Fare Assist program and urges for better access and discounts. Key details of a meeting are listed, with white text on a black background, highlighting the date, time, and location: "Public Works Committee, Monday, 1 December 2025, 1:30 PM EST, Hamilton City Hall." The bottom strip, also yellow with black text, credits the "Hamilton Disabled Transit Coalition."
November 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Mixed feelings about the recent Ombudsman Report "Lost in Transition" on the hospitalization of adults with developmental disabilities and the developmental services system in Ontario

Link to Media Release & Proposed Additional Solutions: tr.ee/Hgn22PfQBu or in bio.
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Alt: The image features a grayscale photograph of a long, empty hallway with a person walking away in the distance. The individual is highlighted in yellow, contrasting with the monochrome surroundings, emphasizing isolation. The hallway has brick walls with white railings on both sides. Above the photo, a black panel with torn edges. At the top of the image, text reads: "NEW REPORT: ONTARIO OMBUDSMAN REPORTS ON THE USE OF PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTIONALIZATION FOR PEOPLE LABELLED WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES. Below the image, text reads: This Report supports what disabled people and their families have said for decades: Disabled People are over-medicated, under-supported, and suffering behind the locked walls of psychiatric institutions for months and years at a time. Current efforts to expand adult institutionalization through large-scale group homes will not address these concerns and recent legislation, like Bill 17, will only intensify institutionalization and violence against us.
November 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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While this Bill has passed, we cannot stop the pressure and organizing we can built now. We will defend our communities and fight back.
Alt: Black graphic with yellow with a red shadow and white body text. Title text reads, Bill 60 has passed. Body text matches the first two posts/tweets.
November 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Ontario has rammed this bill through the Legislature that:
- cause tenants in arrears to have to pay up to 50% before being able to raise other issues at the LTB.
- undermine various green standards and transit.
- open the door to privatization of water".
Alt: Black graphic with yellow with a red shadow and white body text. Title text reads, Bill 60 has passed. Body text matches the first two posts/tweets.
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Ontario has rammed this bill through the Legislature that:
- massively increases the balance of power in tenant law towards landlords.
- will lower notice for tenants and speed up the LTB—for landlords.
Alt: Black graphic with yellow with a red shadow and white body text. Title text reads, Bill 60 has passed. Body text matches the first two posts/tweets.
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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And if we fail to build accessible housing now? “History offers a warning... We need homes that are permanently affordable and that meet people's needs now, and for generations to come.”

Link in bio or www.chrc-ccdp.gc.ca/...
Alt: a blue background with a prominent title in yellow and white text at the top reading, "Landmark Statement on Accessible Housing." Below the title are two circular, blue-bordered portraits. The left portrait shows a person with short hair and glasses, labeled "Marie-Josée Houle, Federal Housing Advocate." The right portrait depicts another person with glasses and a beard, labeled "Christopher T. Sutton, Accessibility Commissioner." Below the portraits is a white, torn-texture graphic with text: quote in tweet/post 4, too long for alt text here.
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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As they say here, we have the tools we need to make housing accessible and affordable—but we need the Building Code to catch up fast and for Build Canada Homes to ensure that funds for affordable housing are held to the highest standard of accessible housing construction.
Alt: a blue background with a prominent title in yellow and white text at the top reading, "Landmark Statement on Accessible Housing." Below the title are two circular, blue-bordered portraits. The left portrait shows a person with short hair and glasses, labeled "Marie-Josée Houle, Federal Housing Advocate." The right portrait depicts another person with glasses and a beard, labeled "Christopher T. Sutton, Accessibility Commissioner." Below the portraits is a white, torn-texture graphic with text: quote in tweet/post 4, too long for alt text here.
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Their calls here are the same calls all members of the Accessible Housing Network and our many allies have been making for years—that affordability and accessibility are not a tradeoff or opposed, but instead two goals all disabled people on these territories need and demand
Alt: a blue background with a prominent title in yellow and white text at the top reading, "Landmark Statement on Accessible Housing." Below the title are two circular, blue-bordered portraits. The left portrait shows a person with short hair and glasses, labeled "Marie-Josée Houle, Federal Housing Advocate." The right portrait depicts another person with glasses and a beard, labeled "Christopher T. Sutton, Accessibility Commissioner." Below the portraits is a white, torn-texture graphic with text: quote in tweet/post 4, too long for alt text here.
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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For National Housing Day, we are very pleased to see this critical call to action from Marie-Josée Houle, Federal Housing Advocate and Christopher T. Sutton, Accessibility Commissioner.
Alt: a blue background with a prominent title in yellow and white text at the top reading, "Landmark Statement on Accessible Housing." Below the title are two circular, blue-bordered portraits. The left portrait shows a person with short hair and glasses, labeled "Marie-Josée Houle, Federal Housing Advocate." The right portrait depicts another person with glasses and a beard, labeled "Christopher T. Sutton, Accessibility Commissioner." Below the portraits is a white, torn-texture graphic with text: quote in tweet/post 4, too long for alt text here.
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Some further details on the National Housing Day rally!
- 11AM: Meet at 67 Yonge St
- 11:30-12:30: March to Queens Park
- 12:30-1:30: Rally at Queen’s Park
Alt: The image is a promotional poster for the "National Housing Day Rally." The background is a deep blue with bold, yellow and red text that reads "National Housing Day Rally" at the top. Below, white text on a blue background provides additional details, inviting tenants, renters, and housing advocacy groups from Ontario to participate in a march from FRPO’s head office to Queen's Park on National Housing Day. A horizontal yellow bar at the bottom displays a website link in bold black text. To the right, several raised fists hold hand-drawn signs with different messages, including logistics about meeting times and locations. At the bottom of the image, there are various logos of supporting organizations, depicted in a horizontal line.
November 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Friends: Join tenants, renters, and housing advocacy groups from across Ontario in a march from FRPO’s head office to Queen’s Park on National Housing Day. STOP BILL 60!

Details: TENANTUNION.CA/HOUSI...

SATURDAY NOV 22ND 11AM - 1:30PM TORONTO

#stopbill60 #onpoli
Alt: The image is a promotional poster for the "National Housing Day Rally." The background is a deep blue with bold, yellow and red text that reads "National Housing Day Rally" at the top. Below, white text on a blue background provides additional details, inviting tenants, renters, and housing advocacy groups from Ontario to participate in a march from FRPO’s head office to Queen's Park on National Housing Day. A horizontal yellow bar at the bottom displays a website link in bold black text. To the right, several raised fists hold hand-drawn signs with different messages, including logistics about meeting times and locations. At the bottom of the image, there are various logos of supporting organizations, depicted in a horizontal line.
November 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Across the Metroland papers today, Brad writes about the silent crisis in housing: accessibility for disabled renters. And, friends, Bill 60's speeding up of evictions and limits on those owing arrears will only make things worse. Link in bio or tr.ee/b-M2MEhM8O
Alt: a blue background with yellow and white text, highlighting issues related to accessible rental housing. In the top left, bold yellow text reads, "Bill 60 Makes the Silent Crisis of Accessible Rental Housing Even Worse." There is a logo to the right, featuring "DJNO" in yellow and "in metroland" in white, accompanied by a stylized sun graphic. Below, there is a dark translucent box containing text: "Disabled tenants have to weigh their options every day they leave their home. They wonder, “Will I be able to get to my medical appointment if the elevator in my building goes down?” Elevator failure and lack of repair regularly trap older adults and tenants with disabilities at home, from Toronto to Sudbury, for weeks at a time..." read the full article for the rest of the quote, too long for alt. text in these apps!
November 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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We can't forget this Bill, even though it is law now, nor those legislators who voted it into law.
We didn't carry the day today, but we can't stop keeping the pressure up to build a better Ontario for every single disabled and non-disabled Ontarian.
2. The image depicts a legislative chamber with members seated on either side. At the center, an individual is standing at a podium in the background, while several members stand nearby. The room is ornate, with wood paneling and green carpets. There are two rows of desks with papers and electronic devices. At the bottom, a digital display shows voting results with "Ayes" at 74 and "Nays" at 40. Below this scene, bold text on a white background reads, "WHO MADE BILL 33 THE LAW?" with "THE LAW" highlighted in bright pink.
November 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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The Bill:
- forces Universities/Colleges to follow ideologically-driven regulations on applications.
- forces regulations on Universities/Colleges that will undermine student and campus organizing/fees.
- does little meaningful to amend the Provincial Child Apprehension System.

1. The image is a graphic with a black background featuring bold text about Bill 33 passing in Ontario. At the top, in large white and pink capital letters, it reads "BILL 33 HAS PASSED." Below, in smaller white text, is an explanation detailing the perceived impacts of the bill. It lists several points: an increase in Ministerial power over school boards, the enforcement of political directives for schools, regulations on universities, and a lack of meaningful amendments to the Provincial Child Apprehension System. Each point begins with a bullet.
November 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM