Parkdale Community Legal Services
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PCLS is a Toronto community legal clinic and Ontario's premier teaching clinic. Trendsetting community lawyers and organizers since 1971.
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New Parkdale Community Legal Services blog post: the proposed renters’ bill of rights 'affirm private landlordism by doing nothing meaningful to change the conditions that make evictions possible and profitable'
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Fare inspectors spotted on the King Streetcar. #nofareinspectors #freetransit 🛑 criminalizing the poor, Black, indigenous, racialized and the youth who use #ttc TTCriders invest in good, reliable and safe services to the ones who use and need it the most. All govt. invest now
Sameer Beyan is one of the Thorncliffe Park residents who recently launched a #rentstrike to protest against a nearly 10 per cent rent hike at his apartment complex. Here, he talks about the leadup to the strike, and if it's part of a coordinated effort. macleans.ca/economy/reales…
'History judges poorly those who stay neutral in the face of injustice.' Important new piece on current #TO #rentstrikes from CCPA Ontario's Ricardo Tranjan, out today: thestar.com/opinion/contri…
'Renoviction is a landlord strategy to permanently displace tenants from their homes...Renoviction is primarily about displacement, not renovations, and is simply one way landlords work to close rent gaps.' Cole Webber and Philip Zigman of RenovictionsTO
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Tenants across the city continue to be displaced in the name of renovations. Dilshad Burman looks into a new report which delves into why renovictions are possible and speaks to tenants who are fighting back. toronto.citynews.ca/2023/04/18/tor…
As governments continue to allow renoviction, only tenant organizing has the potential to become a countervailing force capable of contesting the power of landlords.
Cole Webber and Philip Zigman of RenovictionsTO on Toronto's hidden eviction epidemic. canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…