"Housing advocates question why the municipal government is spending on policing and evictions, rather than increasing the number of affordable housing options throughout the city" BRACING FOR A POST-ENCAMPMENT WINTER Rachel Chen from the Dec issue of WEP www.westendphoenix.com/stories/brac...

Bracing for a post-encampment winter — West End Phoenix

Following new provincial and municipal legislation, the city evicted residents tenting in Dufferin Grove Park. But there’s still no real plan for the winter ahead.

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Protest ride Monday evening. Meet at the heart outside the main entrance of Quebec st mall at 5:40 and we'll roll out at 6:00. Please join us to support us even if you're not riding with us. If you or anyone you love bikes in this city - we need you to write in to council.

Bill 33 is an attack on public education. We know what would help students: smaller class sizes, more supports and better funding. Instead the Ford government is attacking teachers and trustees. We'll keep fighting back.

A group of Toronto tenants raised the alarm over a landlord with a long history of bad faith "renovictions" in apartment complexes across Ontario Now, a provisional order from the LTB means he'll have to appear in court if he wants to defend himself.

Weston Tenants Win Right to Face Top Renovictor Landlord

A provisional order from the Landlord-Tenant Board means that landlord Michael Klein, who is known to renters across Ontario, will have to either appear to defend himself or have tenants’ claims…

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This week is another tough one as the Ontario Government wages war on the working class as the government moves to pass: Bill 25—which will give the MCCSS Minister the power to make political directives for social service agencies.

My good friend Jess reading out names of innocent ppl who have a lost their lives to road violence. Candles represent lives lost. It’s so wrong when our elected reps place the convenience of drivers over prioritizing the safety of vulnerable road users. via @ffsafestreets.bsky.social #WDoR2025

Friends and Families for Safe Streets@ffsafestreets.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Join us Sun Nov 16 4:30pm at Queen's Park (South Lawn) for the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. We are holding it at QP for the second year in a row because our govt continues to wage war on road safety, guaranteeing more violent death and devastation from car crashes.

🦆In the 1970s, Guelph leaders and the GRCA bought the former Frank Kortright Waterfowl Park lands to protect them forever as parkland. In June 2024, the GRCA approved a plan to sell 20 acres, betraying that original vision and the public investment behind it.

@guelph.ca should do the same. For a city that loves to call itself progressive, there needs to be more solidarity towards victims of genocide +their families. Market square was blue and white in support of Israel and @camguthrie.bsky.social posed with an Israeli flag on social media. #freepalestine

Toronto city hall agrees to fly Palestinian flag this month for the first time

The move by the city comes in the wake of Canada’s recognition of Palestine in September.

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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 ...

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“Doug Ford is making people homeless and making the rest of us deal with the consequences. Bill 60 should be called the ‘Create Encampments Faster’ Act,” said Encampment Justice Coalition organizer Diana Chan McNally. www.torontotoday.ca/local/politi...

Toronto housing advocates warn Ford government’s Bill 60 will expedite homelessness

Tenant and housing advocates say changes to the Residential Tenancies Act in Bill 60 will fuel evictions and ‘create encampments faster’

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The doctor shortage isn’t an accident. It was policy. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/10/c... @codeblackamerica.bsky.social

Canada’s doctor shortage is no accident

It was policy.

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Thank you to all supporters of the #vacanthomestax and #Renoviction bylaws. Both passed unanimously by committee of the whole and are set to be implemented in 2026. We are pleased that the VHT was approved at 4%, as we had advocated for. Way to go #guelph! #cityhall #guelphontario #guelphcityhall

After a furious outcry, the Ontario government reversed course on the most controversial part of Bill 60. But the policy makes six other changes to landlord-tenant law that overwhelmingly benefit landlords, @emmapaling.bsky.social reports. 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…

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When introducing Bill 60, the Ontario government said the bill would unlock tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of new units but the numbers don't add up by @ricardo_tranjan www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

The rationale for Ontario’s Bill 60 does not hold up - CCPA

Yesterday, the Ontario government introduced Bill 60, Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act, 2025, which contains many disconcerting, proposed changes to the Residential Tenancy Act.

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ACTO's Top 5 Concerns On Bill 60 - Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario - ACTO

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 24, 2025 The Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO) is sounding…

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@breachmedia.ca on Ontario banning bike lanes "...more cyclists and pedestrians will be killed by cars, and more carbon emitted on our roads will intensify climate change. And traffic won’t even get better" breachmedia.ca/ontarios-plan-to-ban-bike-lanes-is-ripped-from-the-business-lobbys-wish-list/

Ontario’s plan to ban bike lanes is ripped from the business lobby’s wish list ⋆ The Breach

Buried in a new omnibus bill, the latest salvo in Doug Ford’s war on bikes is more than a vendetta—it’s a gift to corporate lobbyists

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The Court confirmed that people who call 9‑1‑1 during an overdose will not face arrest for simple drug possession — a critical clarification during Canada’s ongoing toxic drug crisis. Read the press release: drugpolicy.ca/supreme-cour...

Today, the Supreme Court of Canada delivered a landmark ruling affirming that the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act must be interpreted to fulfill its life-saving purpose. Read the press release: drugpolicy.ca/supreme-cour... @aidq.bsky.social @hrna.bsky.social

Opinion: Ontario Government Set to Ban Bike Lanes Proving Stupid is as Stupid Does. momentummag.com/opinion-onta...

Opinion: Ontario Government Set to Ban Bike Lanes Proving Stupid is as Stupid Does

Ford’s government is once again trying to handcuff cities and erase years of progress on making roads safer and more livable.

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It's obvious that Ford and Sakaria are using bike lanes to divide Ontarians & distract from some pretty monumental f-ups in Ontario. Instead of uniting us & using his mandate to build a better province, he's playing politics with peoples lives (of course not just people on bikes).

Doug Ford's conservative government is proposing the the biggest attack on Ontario renters and rental affordability in a generation. Not only would landlords be able to evict tenants without cause, but rent control in units built before 2018 would effectively be over. (See last row in the image.)

There's a lot to be said about Ford's proposal to allow no fault evictions, effectively ending rent control, but I just keep thinking about how I know *lawyers* who can only afford to live in Toronto because of the current RTA law. I don't know what kind of city we would become.

New proposed provincial legislation would strip away key tenant protections, fast-track evictions, and open the door to ending rent control as we know it in Ontario. Tell Queen's Park: Don't end rent control acorncanada.org/take_action/...

URGENT Message to Doug Ford: Don’t End Rent Control! - ACORN Canada

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Ford government opens door to ending indefinite leases for Ontario tenants

Attorney General Doug Downey says current system discourages landlords from renting out vacant units

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Doug Ford is trying to pass a bill which would allow landlords to arbitrarily end lease agreements due to “personal needs, business strategies, or market conditions.” How about the “personal needs” of tenants to remain housed in an already hellish rental market? This is terrifying. #ONpoli #housing

Ontario bill would look at ‘alternative options’ for ending residential leases, scrap Toronto green roof bylaw. Here are the highlights

The Ford government has tabled an omnibus bill that would make changes to a whole suite of laws and regulations, from green roofs to tenant evictions and driver’s licences.

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Ontario cities are clearing homeless encampments. Where are people supposed to go? Amidst a housing crisis with no end in sight, municipalities across the province have been cracking down on the unhoused: pressprogress.ca/ontario-citi...

Ontario Cities Are Clearing Homeless Encampments. Where Are People Supposed to Go?

Amidst a housing crisis with no end in sight, municipalities across the province have been cracking down on the unhoused

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“Following clinic closures, this July saw a 160 per cent increase in overdoses at and around the Queen Street site” EVERY ONE OF THOSE OVERDOSES IS GOING TO BE SOMEONE’S SON, DAUGHTER, MOTHER OR DAD The latest from our October issue by Christian Malong www.westendphoenix.com/stories/ever...

“Every one of those overdoses is going to be someone’s son, daughter, mother or dad” — West End Phoenix

Supervised consumption sites have closed across the province, and the ones that remain are struggling to keep up.

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Canada vowed to end #poverty by 2030, yet progress has stalled. The government can’t wait any longer to deliver real solutions. By Jasmine Ramze Rezaee and Leila Sarangi @policyalternatives.ca #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Canada set a poverty reduction goal. We’re falling behind. - CCPA

Canada vowed to end poverty by 2030, yet progress has stalled. The government can’t wait any longer to deliver real solutions.

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Saddened but not surprised to hear that Bill 28 was voted down by the PC-led provincial government at Queen’s Park today. Doug Ford is a scourge to society and is running this province into the ground. #onpoli #queenspark #housing

Mike Schreiner@mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The Ford government has a chance to take meaningful action to end homelessness by passing @aislinnclancy.bsky.social and @lfairclough.bsky.social's bill today. I encourage my fellow MPPs to read their powerful op-ed before we vote later today.