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    <title>Change for Ontario Disability Support Program polices and directives and the ODSP Act Petition: Signature List Feed</title>
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      <title>Mrs. Anonymous [Signature #207]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20328919?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 8 Sep 2016 08:29:21 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Viktoria Bouillon [Signature #206]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Viktoria Bouillon, Whitby, ON, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2016 07:30:43 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #205]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Ontario, Canada<p>I am on Disability and am having issues with my teeth breaking. I&#039;ve had to not get a root canal for a year because they are denied. A whole year, teeth are breaking too. I did not chose to be on Disability. I did not plan on getting any injury to put me in this situation but I am afraid to smile. I am afraid of loosing all my teeth. I am only 38 years old. Still it is my fault that my teeth are cracking because the others had to be pulled out and the stress on my mouth is because of me? I have TMJ as well and that doesn&#039;t help when my mouth slams shut and breaks a tooth! All of this is important. People need to realize we did not choose to be like this. We did not choose to not be able to work, or only work part time. I like most people would rather be not poor, not left to the yes or no of others who do not care about us. So yes I am upset and yes I think all of this would be helpful to people on disability. Instead the government makes us feel like we are to blame for our situation. We are to blame for even daring to have issues that make us a burden on them. The problem is that they forget we are not to blame for any of it. No one chooses to be sick instead of healthy. No one.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2015 06:40:27 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Colin Barnard [Signature #204]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Colin Barnard, Port Perry, ON, Canada<p>The entire Act needs to be rewritten to eliminate the punitive nature of ODSP. The income support needs to be above the poverty line. There needs to be a COLA clause to ensure that inflation does not erode real income. Language of Act needs to be congruent with statements current Premier has made on social justice issues.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 2 Sep 2015 12:29:36 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mr. Matthew Obasohan [Signature #203]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr. Matthew Obasohan, Toronto,, Ontario, Canada<p>THE CURRENT ODSP PAYMENTS IS TOO MINIMUM TO SUPPORT RECIPIENT LOOKING AT THE HIGH COST OF LIVING IN ONTARIO TODAY AS A WHOLE. THE GOVERNMENT OF ONTARIO SHOLUD LOOK INTO THE POLICY AND REVIEW IT AND MADE ADJUSTMENT TO IT ASAP</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 2 Jun 2015 05:43:38 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>ms marlene lamarche [Signature #202]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18338720?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[ms marlene lamarche, alfred, Ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2015 12:27:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #201]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18265060?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2014 12:42:14 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Jennifer Benstead [Signature #200]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Jennifer Benstead, Welland, ON, Canada<p>I would really like to see some of these ODSP case managers live on the small income we have. Also I&#039;d like to see them deal with all the delays,and barriers that prevent us from accessing the benefits that we should be entiltled to. Perhaps then we could get something changed in the legislation. I&#039;ve had a hrad time even getting my medical transportation costs covered by my worker Kelli Christian. It&#039;s ridiculous, health care is a basic human right, and we shouldn&#039;t be denied access to it</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 3 Feb 2014 11:35:31 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>kristi woolley [Signature #199]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[kristi woolley, hamilton, ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2014 03:37:05 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms. Patricia Watson [Signature #198]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms. Patricia Watson, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada<p>I agree whole heartedly being on ODSP myself.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:45:52 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Susan Spry [Signature #197]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Susan Spry, Brantford, Ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:24:49 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Amber Dawn Pullin [Signature #196]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Amber Dawn Pullin, St. Thomas, ON, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2014 05:16:24 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Martine D'Amours [Signature #195]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Martine D&#039;Amours, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2014 02:52:40 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr John Cowles [Signature #194]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr John Cowles, Hamilton, Ont., Canada<p>O.D.S Should give more money for people have disability not less.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2014 02:48:36 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>laurie flynn [Signature #193]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[laurie flynn, ON, Canada<p>Bring back Humanity.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:44:30 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>ms Shannon Spry [Signature #192]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ms Shannon Spry, Brantford, Ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:24:58 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>ms Anonymous [Signature #191]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, toronto, ON, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:16:52 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms. Angela Browne [Signature #190]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms. Angela Browne, ST. CATHARINES, Ontario, Canada<p>I want to stop being punished by being married to somebody with a disability, being forced to live in a house that is falling apart, being forced to work 20 hours a day because I can&#039;t hire staff and being forced to live in poverty.  I can&#039;t leave the husband, because he will then have to sue me for half of my income, in order for him to retain benefits.  They need to make the benefit unit the individual and stop attacking self-employed recipients and their spouses.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:30:24 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Paul Pighin [Signature #189]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Paul Pighin, Ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:23:55 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Tammy Slote [Signature #188]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Tammy Slote, Caledonia, Ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:10:04 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Dina McCabe [Signature #187]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Dina McCabe, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<p>It&#039;s about time people with disabilities are no longer treated like secon hand citizens. I never asked to get sick, &amp; I sure did not think my government woul turn it&#039;s back on me. Change things before more people suffer needlessly.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:55:53 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr. Daniel Dufresne [Signature #186]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr. Daniel Dufresne, Welland, Ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:39:35 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>ms jasmine bay-lewis [Signature #185]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ms jasmine bay-lewis, ON, Canada<p>you can not cut ODSP because, these people can not always work, i am personally not apart of ODSP but I do undstand that these people do not deserve these cut backs, so please don&#039;t . I know this will affect people on ODSP negatively.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 12:52:02 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Loren Bay [Signature #184]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16304423?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Loren Bay, ON, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 12:27:37 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Michael O'Donnell [Signature #183]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16272616?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Michael O&#039;Donnell, Cumberland, Ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2013 02:51:37 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Julia Williams [Signature #182]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16068681?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Ms Julia Williams, Innisfil, Ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2013 06:52:06 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>MS. Nancy Laing [Signature #181]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[MS. Nancy Laing, Midland, ON, Canada<p>My roommate is on ODSP and a very small pension, which keeps him in poverty. Before he went on ODSP he had a car ,insurance, and money for fuel. Now his car is off the road because he got sick and now can not afford to drive.. This is wrong</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2013 02:44:51 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Catherine D Henneker [Signature #180]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15176315?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Catherine D Henneker, Sarnia, Ontario Canada, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 4 May 2013 09:54:11 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>MS JULIA WILLIAMS [Signature #179]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[MS JULIA WILLIAMS, Innisfil, Ontario, Canada<p>I am not getting the medial supplies I need to have a good quality of life.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 7 Apr 2013 12:14:01 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Marthe Hook [Signature #178]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14955364?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Marthe Hook, Kingsville, ON, Canada<p>remove disincentives to employment<br />
one being the loss of drug coverage and other benefits if not being replaced by other coverage as in the case f self employment</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:17:17 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs. Karren Seifert [Signature #177]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14291602?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Mrs. Karren Seifert, Trenton, ON, Canada<p>Absolutely repulsive behaviour from the government!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 07:15:52 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #176]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13037233?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Arkona, Ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 11:21:30 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>MS Sarah Ramage [Signature #175]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12614893?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[MS Sarah Ramage, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:02:15 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>JOSIE CIANO [Signature #174]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[JOSIE CIANO, canada, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 4 Apr 2012 03:31:42 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs. Roberta Hickey [Signature #173]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs. Roberta Hickey, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 2 Apr 2012 12:32:50 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs. Pansy Kirkman [Signature #172]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs. Pansy Kirkman, LASALLE, Ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 04:01:32 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Wenda Vallee [Signature #171]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Wenda Vallee, Ontario, Canada<p>People with disabilities are kept in perpetual poverty if they have to rely solely on ODSP.  Quit taking half of the meanial wages that I am lucky enough to earn!!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 8 Mar 2012 06:27:21 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Chris Vallee [Signature #170]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Chris Vallee, Ontario, Canada<p>People with disabilities are kept in perpetual poverty if they have to rely solely on ODSP.  Quit taking half of the meanial wages that I am lucky enough to earn!!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 8 Mar 2012 06:20:54 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>yvette caron [Signature #169]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[yvette caron, ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 8 Mar 2012 05:12:05 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr. Kenneth Kirkman [Signature #168]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr. Kenneth Kirkman, Chatham, Ontario, Canada<p>As my rent goes up, and the price of groceries rise, I keep falling farther and farther behind since the cost of living rises faster than the increase in my ODSP. CPP is gauged to inflation, why shouldn&#039;t my sole income, ODSP be the same.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 8 Mar 2012 02:51:56 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Sean Dantas [Signature #167]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Sean Dantas, Chatham, Ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 8 Mar 2012 01:37:40 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mr. kelly kirkman [Signature #166]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr. kelly kirkman, lasalle, ON, Canada<p>Some people on ODSP are sufferers of permanent mental or physical disaabilities and will never be able to hold jobs  in the mainstream or any for that matter. For them, ODSP is not a transition area where they would remain until retrained. ODSP is for them a disability pension and as such should rise with inflation like CPP or other similar pensions.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 8 Mar 2012 12:05:38 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Jody Percy [Signature #165]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Jody Percy, Ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 6 Mar 2012 10:08:13 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr. Michael Bertrand [Signature #164]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr. Michael Bertrand, Ontario, Canada<p>We are starving on ODSP. My 91 year old father has been in hospital and discretionary funds paid me $35.00 for parking ( 1 week) and I have had to pay the rest out of my food allowance ( all of it ). I have lost 30 pounds and ODSP or OW will not return my calls for help. Some system when they don&#039;t even care if you are starving.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 12:08:22 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #163]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Whitby, ON, Canada<p>Basic human needs and rights are being ignored and discriminated so that the disabled are living alone and under dire circumstances.  The Harris draconian measures such as being penalized for a spouse income is just a petty and mean form of punishment and sentences a disabled person to never having the opportunity of a caring partner.  This is horrendous as much as the treatment dished out by ODSP workers and their lack of knowledge or indifference to the plight of the disabled.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 07:23:51 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Donna Bentley [Signature #162]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Donna Bentley, ON, Canada<p>There but for the Grace of God go I....</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:30:47 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Louise Bark [Signature #161]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Louise Bark, Ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:39:35 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Wm. Thornton [Signature #160]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Wm. Thornton, Scarborough, On., Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:07:23 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>ms vicky swerbrick [Signature #159]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ms vicky swerbrick, smiths falls, on., Canada<p>we should be able to get married and be happy its not fare that the other spouse has to pay odps i have a lot of health promblems and i lose odsp we would be living on the streets .one more thing i think they should pay for the hotel room when you have to be at the hospital around 8 30 am even if you live an hour a when you are in a speacil testing that you are there most of the day.they paid for my hotel room before i got a new worker</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:56:08 UTC</pubDate>
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