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My book on renovictions, co-authored with Philip Zigman, is now available for pre-order: btlbooks.com/book/renovic...

The book looks at how and why landlords renovict tenants and how tenants have organized to fight back and keep their homes

Tenants win as tribunal dismisses eviction bid over plan to shrink London units Adjudicator found landlord failed to meet compensation requirements by the deadline.

Beating renoviction at the LTB on a technicality is a short-term reprieve—landlords can simply issue new eviction notices. Only confrontational tenant organizing that raises the social and financial costs of pursuing renoviction disciplines landlords
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'The kids I teach in Parkdale gossip about rent increases, tenant meetings, evictions' These Toronto teachers say the effects of high housing costs are showing up in the classroom, from missed meals to outbursts.

One 75 Spencer resident whose child attends school in Parkdale, Lobsang Nyima, said he has lived in the building for 15 years.

He is on rent strike and faces eviction, he said, but his reason for striking is “easy” — “We don’t have enough money to pay (the AGI).”
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The Toronto Schools Using Non-Teachers Most Are in the Poorest Neighbourhoods | The Local Exclusive data shows a stark divide in how the TDSB relies on untrained emergency replacements—and schools in low-income neighbourhoods are bearing the burden.

In case you missed it: The TDSB’s use of untrained “emergency replacement people” has increased by a staggering 1,152 percent since the pandemic. These are the schools using them most.

They marched from the school yard to the door of 75 Spencer to show their appreciation for the lengths that tenants are going to in order to defend Parkdale. The message to Kin Pong Chung is clear: the only decent thing to do is direct Metcap to withdraw this rent increase

Parkdale teachers rally in support of 75 Spencer - Parkdale Organize On March 26, teachers and students from Dr. Rita Cox Kina Minagok and Parkdale Public Schools, along with 75 Spencer rent strikers and supporters from the neighbourhood, rallied in the rain to show th...

Teachers and students from DRCKM and Parkdale Public School, along with 75 Spencer rent strikers and supporters from the neighbourhood, rallied in the rain to show their support for the rent strike at 75 Spencer set to enter its second month

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How RCMP spies infiltrated the 1970s Indigenous rights movement | CBC News A CBC Indigenous investigation has found the Cold War-era RCMP Security Service had a widespread and intrusive surveillance operation targeting at least 30 legitimate Indigenous political organization...

Newly declassified RCMP Security Service files of nearly 6,000 pages (!)show how Canada and Liberal govt infiltrated & sought to disrupt Indigenous organizations in 1970s, in an extensive program of covert surveillance, wiretapping, informants and countersubversion.

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Teachers supporting rent striking tenants, their students' families among the rent strikers, is a positive development for working-class politics in our city

Parkdale teachers voice support for tenant rent strike ahead of rally this week - NOW Toronto Parkdale teachers join tenants on rent strike, warning that a proposed above-guideline rent increase could displace families and students.

A group of teachers in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood are rallying in support of tenants on rent strikes, citing concerns about the impact of potential above-guideline rent increases on students. #Parkdale #Toronto

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This means police visited tenants Jano personally identified to them and requested they visit.

Last night, tenants held a lobby meeting to discuss next steps in their fight against the above guideline rent increase. Tenants stand united and will not be intimidated by Metcap or police.

Toronto Police Fail to Intimidate Parkdale Tenants - Parkdale Organize On Thursday, March 19, members of Toronto Police Services pounded on tenants’ doors at 75 Spencer and, in one case, harassed a tenant’s child who answered the door. Police targeted tenants who returne...

Last week, members of Toronto Police Services pounded on tenants’ doors at 75 Spencer. Police targeted tenants who returned N4 eviction notices to Metcap property manager Fjoralba Jano’s mailbox.
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Tenant who accepted Ontario landlord’s $40K to move out for renos says he’s worse off | CBC News After a months-long fight with his landlord, Shannon Lucas accepted a $40,000 payout to move out of the North Bay, Ont., townhouse where he lived for eight years, but says he would give it all back if...

Landlords use the social power of money, along with other extra-legal and legal tactics, to renovict tenants. When tenants accept buyouts, landlords profit and tenants' often end up living under worse conditions
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‘We fight until the end’: Toronto tenants launch rent strike as landlord seeks significant increase YouTube video by CTV News

Chanting “Stop the rent hike,” dozens of tenants at an apartment building in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood launched a rent strike on Sunday afternoon.

MetCap Living, along with the property’s owner Kin Pong Chung, are seeking to up the rent by 5.4 per cent.

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‘It’s not affordable,’ Parkdale tenants launch rent strike over 5.4% hike - NOW Toronto Tenants at 75 Spencer Ave. in Toronto have launched a rent strike, citing after a proposed 5.4 per cent above-guideline rent increase.

Tenants at a Toronto apartment building have officially launched a rent strike in response to their landlord’s request for an above-guideline rent increase totalling 5.4 per cent. #Toronto #Parkdale

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Parkdale tenants launch rent strike over 5.4% hike. #Toronto #Parkdale

Parkdale tenants launch rent strike as landlord seeks significant rent increase Chanting ‘Stop the rent hike,’ dozens of tenants at an apartment building in Parkdale launched a rent strike on Sunday afternoon in response to their landlord’s application for an above-guideline increase (AGI).

‘We fight until the end’: Parkdale tenants launch rent strike as landlord seeks significant increase

Parkdale tenants begin rent strike after property management allegedly attempts illegal rent hike YouTube video by CP24

Parkdale tenants are keeping working-class self-organization and direct confrontation with class enemies on the agenda

Another rent strike brewing in Parkdale as landlord seeks retroactive increase Residents of a west-end Toronto apartment building say they will be going on a rent strike to protest the landlord’s application for a retroactive 2025 rent increase that would amount to more than fiv...

Tenants at 75 Spencer will begin their rent strike on March 1.

Luz Flores, who lives at 75 Spencer, said tenants cannot afford a 5.4 per cent increase. “We’re going through with withholding the rent payment until MetCap withdraws."
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This framing might leave one with the impression that tenants generate the most emissions, when in fact the building category includes commercial and industrial buildings, and the industrial category excludes industrial building emissions

A five-song demo that attempts to make its own way, drawing from a deep well of musical influences, while still respecting convention.

Bleak, yet hopeful. Harsh, but catchy and melodic. For better or worse, Entroper walks its own path.

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Faced with questions about the thousands of eviction applications they file, these landlords used to respond that it is not their job to house low-income people. Now, they just deny that eviction filings are evictions at all

demonstrators take the streets of Minneapolis, January 7, 2026 banners: LAND BACK (upside down american flag) FTP

Minneapolis responds

Locating race in capitalism’s laws of motion: the case of subprime Through a critical engagement with the racial capitalism literature, this article problematizes interpretations of the subprime crisis that foreground expropriation and the historical continuity of...

Me and Mary Robertson in @ripejournal.bsky.social articulating a Marxist perspective on race, racialisation and subprime in a special issue on Raced Finance expertly co-edited by @iliasalami.bsky.social @alibhagat.bsky.social @vincentguermond.bsky.social

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