Corporate landlord shows ‘true colours’ by declining mayor's invitation to meet striking tenants

Even so, tenants remain steadfast in their strike, and an expert weighs in on how the city can pressure the province towards action
Tenants hold a banner outside the Weston King Neighbourhood Centre, where Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow met with them to discuss their ongoing rent strike. Photo by Fernando Arce. (either this or next pic?)

While the tenants of 33 King St. and 22 John St., in Toronto, say it's disappointing and "shameful" that their landlord declined the mayor’s invitation to sit at the negotiating table, they remain undeterred in their ongoing rent strike against their landlord's rent increases.

"We are disappointed that Dream has refused even the mayor's invitation to come and meet with tenants as a collective," Chiara Padovani, an organizer with the York-South Weston Tenant Union (YSW), told reporters outside a town hall Wednesday night, Sept. 13, at Toronto’s Weston King Neighbourhood Centre. 

Canadian Police-Involved Deaths in August 2023

Police killings in August 2023.
Vancouver police car at night.

At least 8 people were killed in police actions in August 2023. This means that at least 62 people have had their lives taken through police actions so far this year. This includes people who were directly killed by police, as in police shootings, or died during police deployments or in police custody.

Tenant organizing played crucial role in stopping renoviction

Tenants of 1570 Lawrence Ave. W. gather for a potluck to celebrate their victory at the Ontario Landlord and Tenant Board

Tenants who fight together, win together.

That's what tenants from 1570 Lawrence Ave. West in Toronto want other tenants around the city to know, after the Ontario Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) recently dismissed their landlord's application to evict them in order to complete renovations.

Migrant worker fights for health coverage in Nova Scotia

Burnett's case highlights both the flaws in the temporary foreign worker system as well as the need for community organizing in the face of government inertia
Kerian Burnett (left), Stacey Gomez (centre) from NOII-NS, and Thiago Buchert from the Halifax Refugee Clinic (right) speak at Monday's press conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Photo credit: Kaley Kennedy, sourced from Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=601005592186235&set=a.554057570214371

With the help of her community, a Jamaican migrant worker in Nova Scotia who was diagnosed with cervical cancer last September has finally been approved for the federal government's interim health care program.

Protest calls out growing fascism in India & Hindu supremacist groups in Canada

The demonstration organized by 20+ groups took place in Ottawa

Protesters from the Montreal and Toronto areas joined locals in Ottawa for a protest on Sunday, August 20th, in Canada’s capital city as part of an ongoing grassroots effort to bring attention to human rights violations in India and resist the rise of Hindutva – or Hindu supremacist – ideology in Canada.  

The protest was supported by twenty organizations, and the accompanying letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was signed by over eighty.

Canadian Police-Involved Deaths in July 2023

Police killings in July 2023.
Mounties on Parade

At least 10 people were killed in police actions in July 2023. This means that at least 54 people have had their lives taken through police actions so far this year. This includes people who were directly killed by police, as in police shootings, or died during police deployments or in police custody.

Climate Groups Say No to Landlord Pushing Decarbonization Costs Onto Tenants

Climate activists joined tenants on Thursday to demand a prominent corporate landlord remove what they say are illegal above-guideline rent increases (AGIs) that the landlord says are necessary retrofitting costs incurred as part of a decarbonization effort. 

VIGIL - Raise your voice against horrific sexual violence in Manipur, India

Demand justice and dignity for women from the minority, Dalit and Indigenous communities

Monday July 24, 6pm
Metro Parc, Place de la Gare-Jean-Talon, Montreal
https://www.facebook.com/events/816690203413179

Montrealers will be gathering to protest and express our outrage over the horrific sexual violence in Manipur, India.
On July 20, viral videos of women being paraded naked surrounded by hundreds of men were circulated, blatantly exposing the ethnic violence in the state. The impunity of the mob and the lack of law and order has encouraged the violence.

Canadian mining group denounced in Brazil, denies wrongdoing

Brazilian Indigenous NGO has published a report on Belo Sun's new PVG project
Satellite image of the Xingu River in the Para province in northern Brazil. The PVG project is proposed for the Volta Grande region of the river.

The Canadian-Brazilian mining company Belo Sun has been accused of committing omissions, illegalities, and intimidations against inhabitants of the Volta Grande do Xingu region in the Brazilian Amazon as part of its Volta Grande Project (PVG). Advocates also warn of possible environmental damages if the project moves forward.

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