Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services
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Providing legal advice and information to people on low income who live south of Bloor between Ossington and Yonge, and supporting community development and law reform campaigns that benefit working people.
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Doug Ford’s new housing bill has been sold as efficiency reform, yet it prioritizes landlords over tenants. Long-term renters will face faster evictions, fewer protections, and higher rents while corporate landlords consolidate even more control of an already deeply financialized market.
Landlords want your rent to go up. Doug Ford is making it happen
Ford may think that disappearing tenants and their unions from the LTB will disappear them from the city, but it won’t. Tenants and the growing tenant union movement in Ontario have been successfully ...
canadiandimension.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Doug Ford’s new housing bill has been sold as efficiency reform, yet it prioritizes landlords over tenants. Long-term renters will face faster evictions, fewer protections, and higher rents while corporate landlords consolidate even more control of an already deeply financialized market.
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We can have a sober national conversation about how much immigration is suitable to meet our social and economic goals. But scapegoating immigrants for the state of housing and health care obscures the real causes of these crises and stokes resentment against vulnerable members of our communities.
The myth of the immigrant threat
Anti-immigrant sentiment is surging in Canada, with politicians and pundits blaming newcomers for crises like housing, health care, and unemployment. But these problems stem from policy failure and in...
canadiandimension.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
We can have a sober national conversation about how much immigration is suitable to meet our social and economic goals. But scapegoating immigrants for the state of housing and health care obscures the real causes of these crises and stokes resentment against vulnerable members of our communities.
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Bill 60 is a vicious, one-sided tenancy legislation. It will cause widespread suffering and loss of life. Anyone who stays neutral is complicit. In this @thestar.com article, I focus on why mayors should fight it.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Ricardo Tranjan: Think Doug Ford has walked back his war on tenants? There’s more to come. Here’s how it should be fought.
Last week, the Ontario government introduced Bill 60, Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act. It includes many troubling legislative changes, but popular outcry so far has focused on the direct attack
www.thestar.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Bill 60 is a vicious, one-sided tenancy legislation. It will cause widespread suffering and loss of life. Anyone who stays neutral is complicit. In this @thestar.com article, I focus on why mayors should fight it.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Bill 60 an attack on tenants!
www.thegrindmag.ca/despite-reve...
www.thegrindmag.ca/despite-reve...
Despite Reversal on Rent Control, Ford Government Still Plans to Make Evictions Easier
After a wave of furious backlash, the Ontario government backtracked on the most controversial part of its proposed Bill 60. But the housing bill will still make it faster and easier for landlords to…
www.thegrindmag.ca
November 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Bill 60 an attack on tenants!
www.thegrindmag.ca/despite-reve...
www.thegrindmag.ca/despite-reve...
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Friends, there have been waves of landlord and government propaganda for us to consider our fight to #StopBill60 over.
But it is not even close. Read on about what is actually in Bill 60 for us to still beat back.
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But it is not even close. Read on about what is actually in Bill 60 for us to still beat back.
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October 28, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Friends, there have been waves of landlord and government propaganda for us to consider our fight to #StopBill60 over.
But it is not even close. Read on about what is actually in Bill 60 for us to still beat back.
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But it is not even close. Read on about what is actually in Bill 60 for us to still beat back.
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Bill 60 still:
- Limits a tenant’s ability to raise new issues at an LTB arrears hearing unless the tenant paid 50% of the rent arrears claimed in the landlord's application.
- Provides the AG with authority to limit how a final decision or order of the LTB can be reviewed.
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- Limits a tenant’s ability to raise new issues at an LTB arrears hearing unless the tenant paid 50% of the rent arrears claimed in the landlord's application.
- Provides the AG with authority to limit how a final decision or order of the LTB can be reviewed.
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October 28, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Bill 60 still:
- Limits a tenant’s ability to raise new issues at an LTB arrears hearing unless the tenant paid 50% of the rent arrears claimed in the landlord's application.
- Provides the AG with authority to limit how a final decision or order of the LTB can be reviewed.
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- Limits a tenant’s ability to raise new issues at an LTB arrears hearing unless the tenant paid 50% of the rent arrears claimed in the landlord's application.
- Provides the AG with authority to limit how a final decision or order of the LTB can be reviewed.
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Bill 60 still:
- Allows landlords who have provided 120 days notice for an Landlord’s Own Use eviction, to not to have to provide compensation to the tenants or offer another unit.
- Shortens the Arrears Eviction Notice Period from 14 to 7 days—making evictions even faster.
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- Allows landlords who have provided 120 days notice for an Landlord’s Own Use eviction, to not to have to provide compensation to the tenants or offer another unit.
- Shortens the Arrears Eviction Notice Period from 14 to 7 days—making evictions even faster.
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October 28, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Bill 60 still:
- Allows landlords who have provided 120 days notice for an Landlord’s Own Use eviction, to not to have to provide compensation to the tenants or offer another unit.
- Shortens the Arrears Eviction Notice Period from 14 to 7 days—making evictions even faster.
4/4
- Allows landlords who have provided 120 days notice for an Landlord’s Own Use eviction, to not to have to provide compensation to the tenants or offer another unit.
- Shortens the Arrears Eviction Notice Period from 14 to 7 days—making evictions even faster.
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Canada’s deficit is projected to rise by $17B, yet ordinary folks face cuts to essential services while the ultra-rich and corporations avoid billions in taxes. Closing loopholes and taxing offshore wealth could fully fund health care, housing, and education—proving the crisis is a political choice.
A deficit paid by workers and a bailout for the wealthy
Canada’s deficit is projected to rise by $17 billion, yet ordinary Canadians face cuts to essential services while the ultra-wealthy and multinational corporations avoid billions in taxes. Closing loo...
canadiandimension.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Canada’s deficit is projected to rise by $17B, yet ordinary folks face cuts to essential services while the ultra-rich and corporations avoid billions in taxes. Closing loopholes and taxing offshore wealth could fully fund health care, housing, and education—proving the crisis is a political choice.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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A multi-millionaire central banker tells us that we should make sacrifices so he can boost military spending and grease the wheels of profit making by fossil fuel companies. #Carney #Austerity
October 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
A multi-millionaire central banker tells us that we should make sacrifices so he can boost military spending and grease the wheels of profit making by fossil fuel companies. #Carney #Austerity
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October 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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🚨 ACTION ALERT 🚨 Sign & share the petition to get as many signatures as we can before the deadline: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en.... Pls confirm the House of Commons email after signing.
#onpoli #cdnpoli #healthcare #dougford #markcarney
#onpoli #cdnpoli #healthcare #dougford #markcarney
October 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
🚨 ACTION ALERT 🚨 Sign & share the petition to get as many signatures as we can before the deadline: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en.... Pls confirm the House of Commons email after signing.
#onpoli #cdnpoli #healthcare #dougford #markcarney
#onpoli #cdnpoli #healthcare #dougford #markcarney
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The situation is extremely urgent. Pls fill the Public Galleries at the Legislature on Wed Oct 29, host a Legislature Watch event in your town, and spread the word. Do everything you can to pour on the pressure. Details below 👇
#onpoli #ontario #healthcare #dougford #toronto
#onpoli #ontario #healthcare #dougford #toronto
October 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The situation is extremely urgent. Pls fill the Public Galleries at the Legislature on Wed Oct 29, host a Legislature Watch event in your town, and spread the word. Do everything you can to pour on the pressure. Details below 👇
#onpoli #ontario #healthcare #dougford #toronto
#onpoli #ontario #healthcare #dougford #toronto
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The theatrical setting for #Carney's announcement on combatting crime brings a number words to mind but subtlety isn't one of them. Is he trying to appease Trump or make him jealous?
October 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The theatrical setting for #Carney's announcement on combatting crime brings a number words to mind but subtlety isn't one of them. Is he trying to appease Trump or make him jealous?
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