Cynthia Black (she/her)
@cynthiablack.bsky.social
Everyone should have access to high-quality housing and healthcare that suits their needs.
Organizer, Livmore High Park Tenants’ Association:
👉 lhpta.bsky.social
👉 https://linktr.ee/lhpta
Organizer, Livmore High Park Tenants’ Association:
👉 lhpta.bsky.social
👉 https://linktr.ee/lhpta
Pinned
Maybe allowing profit-driven corporations to have significant control over people’s ability to find, afford, and remain in housing that meets their needs is problematic after all 💁🏼♀️
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>4,000 refugees are in Toronto's shelter system, yet Fed Gov’t plans to CUT supportive IHAP funding.
This would result in mass homelessness and the elimination of shelter space.
Org’s/individuals working in and adjacent to the housing/refugee rights space, SIGN HERE:
forms.gle/Qhusz8ByH6zC...
This would result in mass homelessness and the elimination of shelter space.
Org’s/individuals working in and adjacent to the housing/refugee rights space, SIGN HERE:
forms.gle/Qhusz8ByH6zC...
Sign on: Ensuring Federal Funding for Refugees
The federal government is severely reducing funding for refugee shelter in the City of Toronto. If this funding is cut, it would mean the loss of shelter space and thousands of refugees on the street ...
forms.gle
September 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
>4,000 refugees are in Toronto's shelter system, yet Fed Gov’t plans to CUT supportive IHAP funding.
This would result in mass homelessness and the elimination of shelter space.
Org’s/individuals working in and adjacent to the housing/refugee rights space, SIGN HERE:
forms.gle/Qhusz8ByH6zC...
This would result in mass homelessness and the elimination of shelter space.
Org’s/individuals working in and adjacent to the housing/refugee rights space, SIGN HERE:
forms.gle/Qhusz8ByH6zC...
I signed…
“To pass the Consent Awareness Week Act, 2025 to declare the third week of September as Consent Awareness Week and facilitate expanded consent awareness education, programming and initiatives in Ontario schools, workplaces and across the province.”
www.alexagilmour.ca/establish-co...
“To pass the Consent Awareness Week Act, 2025 to declare the third week of September as Consent Awareness Week and facilitate expanded consent awareness education, programming and initiatives in Ontario schools, workplaces and across the province.”
www.alexagilmour.ca/establish-co...
Establish Consent Awareness Week
www.alexagilmour.ca
September 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I signed…
“To pass the Consent Awareness Week Act, 2025 to declare the third week of September as Consent Awareness Week and facilitate expanded consent awareness education, programming and initiatives in Ontario schools, workplaces and across the province.”
www.alexagilmour.ca/establish-co...
“To pass the Consent Awareness Week Act, 2025 to declare the third week of September as Consent Awareness Week and facilitate expanded consent awareness education, programming and initiatives in Ontario schools, workplaces and across the province.”
www.alexagilmour.ca/establish-co...
Join to honour the past, present and future victories of the Labour Movement at this year’s annual Labour Day Parade!
Sept 1 at 9:30 a.m. Parade route: University Avenue → Queen Street → Dufferin Street → CNE Grounds
www.labourcouncil.ca/labour-day-p...
Sept 1 at 9:30 a.m. Parade route: University Avenue → Queen Street → Dufferin Street → CNE Grounds
www.labourcouncil.ca/labour-day-p...
September 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Join to honour the past, present and future victories of the Labour Movement at this year’s annual Labour Day Parade!
Sept 1 at 9:30 a.m. Parade route: University Avenue → Queen Street → Dufferin Street → CNE Grounds
www.labourcouncil.ca/labour-day-p...
Sept 1 at 9:30 a.m. Parade route: University Avenue → Queen Street → Dufferin Street → CNE Grounds
www.labourcouncil.ca/labour-day-p...
Reposted by Cynthia Black (she/her)
Federal #publicsectorworkers will soon be on the frontlines of the fight against #Carney's austerity agenda. They will be fighting for all of us.
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August 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Federal #publicsectorworkers will soon be on the frontlines of the fight against #Carney's austerity agenda. They will be fighting for all of us.
www.readthemaple.com/chretien-era...
www.readthemaple.com/chretien-era...
Oh look! 💁🏼♀️ The Fed Labour Board just added fuel to the fire!
(✊🏻 #Solidarity with #AirCanada CUPE component workers!)
#OnLab #CdnPoli #unfaircanada @oflabour.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
(✊🏻 #Solidarity with #AirCanada CUPE component workers!)
#OnLab #CdnPoli #unfaircanada @oflabour.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Federal labour board deems Air Canada flight attendants' strike 'unlawful' | CBC News
The independent tribunal that administers Canada's labour laws has deemed the strike by Air Canada's some 10,000 flight attendants illegal and is ordering workers back to the skies.
www.cbc.ca
August 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Oh look! 💁🏼♀️ The Fed Labour Board just added fuel to the fire!
(✊🏻 #Solidarity with #AirCanada CUPE component workers!)
#OnLab #CdnPoli #unfaircanada @oflabour.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
(✊🏻 #Solidarity with #AirCanada CUPE component workers!)
#OnLab #CdnPoli #unfaircanada @oflabour.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Reposted by Cynthia Black (she/her)
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... "To legislate us back to work 12 hours after we started? I'm sorry, snowstorms have shut down Air Canada for longer than we were allowed to strike."
Air Canada flight attendants to defy back-to-work order, remain on strike: union | CBC News
Air Canada flight attendants will defy the back-to-work order and remain on strike after the federal government ordered binding arbitration to end the work stoppage, the Canadian Union of Public Emplo...
www.cbc.ca
August 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... "To legislate us back to work 12 hours after we started? I'm sorry, snowstorms have shut down Air Canada for longer than we were allowed to strike."
They tend to your comfort and safety while soaring 600km/hr 10,000 meters above the Earth.
Trampling their Charter-protected right to strike after years of underpay & forced free labour is — at the very least — a *bad* idea.
✊🏻Solidarity with Air Canada Flight Attendants
@oflabour.bsky.social
Trampling their Charter-protected right to strike after years of underpay & forced free labour is — at the very least — a *bad* idea.
✊🏻Solidarity with Air Canada Flight Attendants
@oflabour.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
They tend to your comfort and safety while soaring 600km/hr 10,000 meters above the Earth.
Trampling their Charter-protected right to strike after years of underpay & forced free labour is — at the very least — a *bad* idea.
✊🏻Solidarity with Air Canada Flight Attendants
@oflabour.bsky.social
Trampling their Charter-protected right to strike after years of underpay & forced free labour is — at the very least — a *bad* idea.
✊🏻Solidarity with Air Canada Flight Attendants
@oflabour.bsky.social
I lived in here briefly while it was still under construction. Its target market was students & it placed tenants in shared units w/others.
I recall informing mgmt that they were obligated to deliver the cleaning services *that were included* in lease agreements 🫠
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
I recall informing mgmt that they were obligated to deliver the cleaning services *that were included* in lease agreements 🫠
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
Ottawa lawyer says eviction plan for Little Italy apartment building sidesteps tenants’ rights
An Ottawa lawyer says a proposed mass eviction at a Little Italy apartment building sidesteps the legal protections Ontario tenants are entitled to and is being brought before the wrong court.
www.ctvnews.ca
July 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I lived in here briefly while it was still under construction. Its target market was students & it placed tenants in shared units w/others.
I recall informing mgmt that they were obligated to deliver the cleaning services *that were included* in lease agreements 🫠
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
I recall informing mgmt that they were obligated to deliver the cleaning services *that were included* in lease agreements 🫠
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
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Another great quote from the Judge’s overview of the reasons for judgement (re: “fear of opening the floodgate” argument):
“Rights claims are not denied because others may make a similar claim or because it is administratively inconvenient to comply with the Charter.”
Another great quote from the Judge’s overview of the reasons for judgement (re: “fear of opening the floodgate” argument):
“Rights claims are not denied because others may make a similar claim or because it is administratively inconvenient to comply with the Charter.”
"The advice provided to the govt, both before + after Bill212 was passed, was that removal of the target bike lanes to restore a lane of motor vehicle traffic will not achieve the asserted goal of the law, as it will not reduce congestion" -Justice Schabas #biketo
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www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario court strikes down Ford government's plan to remove Toronto bike lanes | CBC News
An Ontario court has deemed the province's plan to remove three major Toronto bike lanes unconstitutional. A spokesperson for Ontario's transportation minister said the government will appeal.
www.cbc.ca
July 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Another great quote from the Judge’s overview of the reasons for judgement (re: “fear of opening the floodgate” argument):
“Rights claims are not denied because others may make a similar claim or because it is administratively inconvenient to comply with the Charter.”
Another great quote from the Judge’s overview of the reasons for judgement (re: “fear of opening the floodgate” argument):
“Rights claims are not denied because others may make a similar claim or because it is administratively inconvenient to comply with the Charter.”
A groundbreaking new report has just revealed a pipeline of hundreds of ongoing arms shipments from Canada to Israel and the government's web of lies over the last 21 months. Read it and act now - we can’t let a single MP off the hook. #ArmsEmbargoNow armsembargonow.ca/report
Arms Embargo Now!
Canada’s secret arms trade with Israel, exposed: This hard-hitting report exposes the damning data—hundreds of shipments, hundreds of thousands of bullets—and the Canadian government’s web of lies tha...
armsembargonow.ca
July 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
A groundbreaking new report has just revealed a pipeline of hundreds of ongoing arms shipments from Canada to Israel and the government's web of lies over the last 21 months. Read it and act now - we can’t let a single MP off the hook. #ArmsEmbargoNow armsembargonow.ca/report
I just wrote a letter: Report reveals Canada's Lies + Complicity: Demand an Arms Embargo. Write one here: leadnow.ca/campaigns/ar...
Report Reveals Canada's Lies + Complicity - Leadnow
leadnow.ca
July 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I just wrote a letter: Report reveals Canada's Lies + Complicity: Demand an Arms Embargo. Write one here: leadnow.ca/campaigns/ar...
Reposted by Cynthia Black (she/her)
Can’t believe it finally passed. We tried this year ago and if not for some of the same opposition, it could have lowered rents across the board and forced millions in repairs during both COVID and now
Councillor Matlow's motion to establish a colour-coded sign rating system for apartment buildings based on inspections, similar to DineSafe, CARRIES 20-3. Interesting trio here. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...
July 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Can’t believe it finally passed. We tried this year ago and if not for some of the same opposition, it could have lowered rents across the board and forced millions in repairs during both COVID and now
Reposted by Cynthia Black (she/her)
thecradle.co/articles-id/... ‘The report was written by Israeli professor Yaakov Garb, who used data-driven analysis and spatial mapping to show how the Israeli army’s siege of Gaza and indiscriminate attacks on civilians in the enclave have led to a serious drop in its population.’
Harvard-linked study finds Israel ‘disappeared’ nearly 400,000 Palestinians in Gaza, half of them children: Report
The study by a Ben Gurion University professor uses data-driven analysis and spatial mapping to highlight a severe decline in Gaza’s population since October 2023
thecradle.co
June 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
thecradle.co/articles-id/... ‘The report was written by Israeli professor Yaakov Garb, who used data-driven analysis and spatial mapping to show how the Israeli army’s siege of Gaza and indiscriminate attacks on civilians in the enclave have led to a serious drop in its population.’
I just wrote to PM @mark-carney.bsky.social Ministers Anandasangaree & Diab demanding that Bill C-2 be rescinded. This law gives dangerous unchecked powers to the government to deport people, including permanent residents and attacks refugees. Add your name:
migrantrights.ca/take-action/...
migrantrights.ca/take-action/...
Stop Bill C-2 - Migrant Rights Network
Send an Email Now! Bill C-2 is a cruel and violent law that aims to create a mass deportation machine: One-Year Refugee Deadline: Bill C-2 blocks anyone in Canada over one year from claiming refugee s...
migrantrights.ca
June 17, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I just wrote to PM @mark-carney.bsky.social Ministers Anandasangaree & Diab demanding that Bill C-2 be rescinded. This law gives dangerous unchecked powers to the government to deport people, including permanent residents and attacks refugees. Add your name:
migrantrights.ca/take-action/...
migrantrights.ca/take-action/...
Reposted by Cynthia Black (she/her)
How Canada’s ‘Condo Class’ Has Disrupted Political Organizing www.readthemaple.com/how-canadas-...
By @emmapaling.bsky.social 👏
By @emmapaling.bsky.social 👏
How Canada’s ‘Condo Class’ Has Disrupted Political Organizing
The rise of condos is making door-to-door political campaigning obsolete.
www.readthemaple.com
June 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
How Canada’s ‘Condo Class’ Has Disrupted Political Organizing www.readthemaple.com/how-canadas-...
By @emmapaling.bsky.social 👏
By @emmapaling.bsky.social 👏
Reposted by Cynthia Black (she/her)
Thrilled to join the Annual Community BBQ in the High Park buildings!
It’s always heartening to see neighbours come together and build community over great food & conversations.
Thank you Livmore High Park Tenants' Association for hosting, and for your continued advocacy & community leadership!
It’s always heartening to see neighbours come together and build community over great food & conversations.
Thank you Livmore High Park Tenants' Association for hosting, and for your continued advocacy & community leadership!
June 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Thrilled to join the Annual Community BBQ in the High Park buildings!
It’s always heartening to see neighbours come together and build community over great food & conversations.
Thank you Livmore High Park Tenants' Association for hosting, and for your continued advocacy & community leadership!
It’s always heartening to see neighbours come together and build community over great food & conversations.
Thank you Livmore High Park Tenants' Association for hosting, and for your continued advocacy & community leadership!
Reposted by Cynthia Black (she/her)
We were thrilled to have
@alexagilmour.bsky.social attend our Annual Community BBQ last weekend!
Thank you, Alexa, for speaking in support of rent control ✊
@alexagilmour.bsky.social attend our Annual Community BBQ last weekend!
Thank you, Alexa, for speaking in support of rent control ✊
Thrilled to join the Annual Community BBQ in the High Park buildings!
It’s always heartening to see neighbours come together and build community over great food & conversations.
Thank you Livmore High Park Tenants' Association for hosting, and for your continued advocacy & community leadership!
It’s always heartening to see neighbours come together and build community over great food & conversations.
Thank you Livmore High Park Tenants' Association for hosting, and for your continued advocacy & community leadership!
June 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We were thrilled to have
@alexagilmour.bsky.social attend our Annual Community BBQ last weekend!
Thank you, Alexa, for speaking in support of rent control ✊
@alexagilmour.bsky.social attend our Annual Community BBQ last weekend!
Thank you, Alexa, for speaking in support of rent control ✊
Reposted by Cynthia Black (she/her)
A home…a home…a home is with the fight!
No more greedy landlords.
Housing justice NOW.
@230fightback.bsky.social @nodemovictions.bsky.social @springmagca.bsky.social @demsocialistsca.bsky.social
No more greedy landlords.
Housing justice NOW.
@230fightback.bsky.social @nodemovictions.bsky.social @springmagca.bsky.social @demsocialistsca.bsky.social
June 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
A home…a home…a home is with the fight!
No more greedy landlords.
Housing justice NOW.
@230fightback.bsky.social @nodemovictions.bsky.social @springmagca.bsky.social @demsocialistsca.bsky.social
No more greedy landlords.
Housing justice NOW.
@230fightback.bsky.social @nodemovictions.bsky.social @springmagca.bsky.social @demsocialistsca.bsky.social
F*ck Bill 5 ✊🏻
I’m at Queen’s Park tonight fighting Bill 5 — the PC government's dangerous power grab that lets them override laws at will.
We’re filibustering to stop it. All night if we have to.
We’re filibustering to stop it. All night if we have to.
May 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
F*ck Bill 5 ✊🏻
Reposted by Cynthia Black (she/her)
This is unbelievable. The government is silencing debate and skipping public hearings to push through their plan to politicize Ontario’s courts.
First Bill 5. Now this. How far are they willing to go?
First Bill 5. Now this. How far are they willing to go?
May 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This is unbelievable. The government is silencing debate and skipping public hearings to push through their plan to politicize Ontario’s courts.
First Bill 5. Now this. How far are they willing to go?
First Bill 5. Now this. How far are they willing to go?
“We must see this as an opportunity to break the grip of the developers and speculators and defeat the established political orthodoxy that holds that housing provision requires the incentivization of these parasitic interests.”
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The bubble of speculative greed is bursting and the developers are in trouble. At the same time, those who desperately need #housing face increased hardship. My column this month for @canadiandimension.bsky.social.
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
Two housing crises in one city
We often speak of a “housing crisis” and it is certainly true that profit-driven housing provision means rapidly intensifying hardship for hundreds of thousands of people. However, the beneficiaries o...
canadiandimension.com
May 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
“We must see this as an opportunity to break the grip of the developers and speculators and defeat the established political orthodoxy that holds that housing provision requires the incentivization of these parasitic interests.”
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🎯 “…financial firms are more aggressive in pursuing rent increases because they say that they are: the firm themselves state that their growth is driven by raising rents, and that they pursue more aggressive increases...”
👏 Fantastic research by @uwaterloo.ca
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
👏 Fantastic research by @uwaterloo.ca
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Financialization, housing rents, and affordability in Toronto - Martine August, Cloé St-Hilaire, 2025
This article examines the links between financialization, rent increases, and spatial inequality in Toronto, Canada. By drawing on qualitative data from the gre...
journals.sagepub.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:41 AM
🎯 “…financial firms are more aggressive in pursuing rent increases because they say that they are: the firm themselves state that their growth is driven by raising rents, and that they pursue more aggressive increases...”
👏 Fantastic research by @uwaterloo.ca
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
👏 Fantastic research by @uwaterloo.ca
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
It’s *not* immigrants.
It’s *not* lack of supply.
It’s $$$ firms that are making housing unaffordable.
“Census data shows that the supply of housing has been greater than population growth almost every year since 2010, yet housing price increases consistently outstrip inflation every year.”
It’s *not* lack of supply.
It’s $$$ firms that are making housing unaffordable.
“Census data shows that the supply of housing has been greater than population growth almost every year since 2010, yet housing price increases consistently outstrip inflation every year.”
The rapid evaporation of affordable housing has created a dire situation for working Canadians. Since financialized firms entered the housing market average home prices have risen 318%. Two-thirds of tenants are now being charged unaffordable rents.
The REIT-ification of housing
The financialization of housing is a result of policy choices made by successive federal and provincial governments over decades. The Federal Housing Advocate points to three major policy drivers: the...
canadiandimension.com
May 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
It’s *not* immigrants.
It’s *not* lack of supply.
It’s $$$ firms that are making housing unaffordable.
“Census data shows that the supply of housing has been greater than population growth almost every year since 2010, yet housing price increases consistently outstrip inflation every year.”
It’s *not* lack of supply.
It’s $$$ firms that are making housing unaffordable.
“Census data shows that the supply of housing has been greater than population growth almost every year since 2010, yet housing price increases consistently outstrip inflation every year.”
Reposted by Cynthia Black (she/her)
The rapid evaporation of affordable housing has created a dire situation for working Canadians. Since financialized firms entered the housing market average home prices have risen 318%. Two-thirds of tenants are now being charged unaffordable rents.
The REIT-ification of housing
The financialization of housing is a result of policy choices made by successive federal and provincial governments over decades. The Federal Housing Advocate points to three major policy drivers: the...
canadiandimension.com
May 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The rapid evaporation of affordable housing has created a dire situation for working Canadians. Since financialized firms entered the housing market average home prices have risen 318%. Two-thirds of tenants are now being charged unaffordable rents.
Reposted by Cynthia Black (she/her)
Agreed:
Financialized landlords…
(like GWL Realty Advisors, Dream Ultd, Starlight, Minto, Brookfield, etc)
…should NOT be accessing supports when they are literally pricing people out of their homes.
@mark-carney.bsky.social @gregorrobertson.bsky.social @ontariopc.bsky.social
Financialized landlords…
(like GWL Realty Advisors, Dream Ultd, Starlight, Minto, Brookfield, etc)
…should NOT be accessing supports when they are literally pricing people out of their homes.
@mark-carney.bsky.social @gregorrobertson.bsky.social @ontariopc.bsky.social
A @uwaterloo.ca researcher:
“We don't think that they should be accessing support from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation or Canada's National Housing Strategy.” 💯
Now fix it, @mark-carney.bsky.social @gregorrobertson.bsky.social @ontariopc.bsky.social
uwaterloo.ca/news/financi...
“We don't think that they should be accessing support from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation or Canada's National Housing Strategy.” 💯
Now fix it, @mark-carney.bsky.social @gregorrobertson.bsky.social @ontariopc.bsky.social
uwaterloo.ca/news/financi...
Financial landlords are leading Toronto rent hikes | Waterloo News
Financial landlords in Toronto charge monthly rents 44 per cent higher than the average neighbourhood price, according to a groundbreaking new study. The increase translates to $670 more on average. A...
uwaterloo.ca
May 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Agreed:
Financialized landlords…
(like GWL Realty Advisors, Dream Ultd, Starlight, Minto, Brookfield, etc)
…should NOT be accessing supports when they are literally pricing people out of their homes.
@mark-carney.bsky.social @gregorrobertson.bsky.social @ontariopc.bsky.social
Financialized landlords…
(like GWL Realty Advisors, Dream Ultd, Starlight, Minto, Brookfield, etc)
…should NOT be accessing supports when they are literally pricing people out of their homes.
@mark-carney.bsky.social @gregorrobertson.bsky.social @ontariopc.bsky.social