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Doug Ford Gets Visibly Annoyed By Hilarious Bill 60 Protester, Makes The NYT Over It
Ontario Premier Doug Ford got visibly annoyed by a protest against his bill which negatively impacts tenants rights. I discuss the hilarious interaction, as ...
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 utilizing the LTB to throw sand in the gears of financialized landlords’ predatory business model. Given the affordability crisis, they have no choice but to continue.
Stop Ford’s attack on tenants
Doug Ford has introduced another assault on tenant rights in Ontario. Bill 60, the so-called Fighting Delays Building Faster act is an omnibus bill that makes sweeping changes to 16 different pieces of legislation from construction planning to bike lanes to tenant rights.
After the bill was announced, Ford backtracked on the most egregious provisions on the housing file - those which would have effectively ended rent control for millions of tenants.