In early July 2025, the Nova Scotia government abruptly terminated its contract with Out of the Cold (OOTC), a non-profit that had been operating two…
On May 21, members from 230 Fightback, York South-Weston Tenant Union and other grassroots organizations joined Parkdale Housing Justice Network (PHJN) for a planned action…
Just before the Ontario legislature rose for its winter break, Doug Ford introduced Bill 242, the Safer Municipalities Act, which escalates the ongoing criminalization of…
In this episode of Spring Radio, we sat down with Ricardo Tranjan to discuss the Conservatives’ slogan ‘Build the Homes,’ versus what the evidence actually tells us about housing in Canada.
The fall sitting of the Nova Scotia legislature provided yet another piece of evidence that Tim Houston’s Conservatives are willing to change the law to…
On August 1st, Immigration Minister Marc Miller told reporters that his government would not be following through on their promise of a regularization program to…
August 18, 2021, has become synonymous with the willingness and ability of the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) to mobilize large-scale, violent evictions of houseless encampments….
On June 1, 2023, tenants at 33 King Street started a rent strike in response to above-guideline rent increases (AGIs) from their landlord, Dream Unlimited….
As a former international student in the UK, the start of the academic year is a reminder of the outrageous ‘overseas student’ fees I had…
The #StopTheSweeps coalition has been organizing for nearly 2 years now – bringing together individuals and representatives from the Coalition of Peers Dismantling the Drug War, Defund 604 Network, Pivot Legal Society, VANDU, and the Vancouver Tenants Union to directly confront street sweeps.
Landlords are looking for ways to build their wealth by exploiting the housing needs of workers and their families. But tenants can and must fight back.
On June 1, tenants at 33 King Street started a rent strike in response to yet another above-guideline rent increase (AGI). The group is part…
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