It is absolutely heartbreaking how society and government treat people with disabilities in Canada. The Ottawa mayor called it like it is: people with disabilities are treated like second-class citizens in Canada, or worse. Why? Because they had the misfortune of either being... https://twitter.com/EveryAlbertan/status/1301521757375852544

...born with a disability or acquired one later in life, either through an accident or through illness.

It is disgusting and I am sick of seeing such blatant discrimination. I don't know which is worse: the systemic discrimination or the pure apathy. A disability can happen...

...to anyone. Please start pressuring ALL levels of government to do something about the punishing conditions of poverty in which people with disabilities live.

Please view the news item I RT'd, and get some understanding of the dire circumstances in which our most vulnerable citizens live. Would you want that for your children? Thought not, so please help do something. Please start by signing this petition.

https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-2821

I'm not sure how I managed to f*ck up this thread. It's probably because I'm crying so hard after reading that article that I couldn't think about what I was doing, but there's a longer thread than this. I managed to tack the rest of the thread on an earlier tweet, but I hope...

...you'll be able to find it and read it. I have to take off for a phone conference but I will try to fix it when I get back, so it is flowing under the main tweet. This issue and the treatment of First Nations, Innuit/Innu and Métis get my blood boiling. Enough!