Cole Webber

‘We fight until the end’: Toronto tenants launch rent strike as landlord seeks significant increase YouTube video by CTV News

Chanting “Stop the rent hike,” dozens of tenants at an apartment building in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood launched a rent strike on Sunday afternoon.

MetCap Living, along with the property’s owner Kin Pong Chung, are seeking to up the rent by 5.4 per cent.

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‘It’s not affordable,’ Parkdale tenants launch rent strike over 5.4% hike - NOW Toronto Tenants at 75 Spencer Ave. in Toronto have launched a rent strike, citing after a proposed 5.4 per cent above-guideline rent increase.

Tenants at a Toronto apartment building have officially launched a rent strike in response to their landlord’s request for an above-guideline rent increase totalling 5.4 per cent. #Toronto #Parkdale

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Parkdale tenants launch rent strike over 5.4% hike. #Toronto #Parkdale

Parkdale tenants launch rent strike as landlord seeks significant rent increase Chanting ‘Stop the rent hike,’ dozens of tenants at an apartment building in Parkdale launched a rent strike on Sunday afternoon in response to their landlord’s application for an above-guideline increase (AGI).

‘We fight until the end’: Parkdale tenants launch rent strike as landlord seeks significant increase

Parkdale tenants begin rent strike after property management allegedly attempts illegal rent hike YouTube video by CP24

Parkdale tenants are keeping working-class self-organization and direct confrontation with class enemies on the agenda

Another rent strike brewing in Parkdale as landlord seeks retroactive increase Residents of a west-end Toronto apartment building say they will be going on a rent strike to protest the landlord’s application for a retroactive 2025 rent increase that would amount to more than fiv...

Tenants at 75 Spencer will begin their rent strike on March 1.

Luz Flores, who lives at 75 Spencer, said tenants cannot afford a 5.4 per cent increase. “We’re going through with withholding the rent payment until MetCap withdraws."
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This framing might leave one with the impression that tenants generate the most emissions, when in fact the building category includes commercial and industrial buildings, and the industrial category excludes industrial building emissions

A five-song demo that attempts to make its own way, drawing from a deep well of musical influences, while still respecting convention.

Bleak, yet hopeful. Harsh, but catchy and melodic. For better or worse, Entroper walks its own path.

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Faced with questions about the thousands of eviction applications they file, these landlords used to respond that it is not their job to house low-income people. Now, they just deny that eviction filings are evictions at all

demonstrators take the streets of Minneapolis, January 7, 2026 banners: LAND BACK (upside down american flag) FTP

Minneapolis responds

Locating race in capitalism’s laws of motion: the case of subprime Through a critical engagement with the racial capitalism literature, this article problematizes interpretations of the subprime crisis that foreground expropriation and the historical continuity of...

Me and Mary Robertson in @ripejournal.bsky.social articulating a Marxist perspective on race, racialisation and subprime in a special issue on Raced Finance expertly co-edited by @iliasalami.bsky.social @alibhagat.bsky.social @vincentguermond.bsky.social

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Neoton Família - Holnap Hajnalig '83 YouTube video by Remaster

enjoy your evenings
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My band Entroper released our first song
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Israel demolishes east Jerusalem building, evicting Palestinians Around 100 people were ordered to leave the building just hours before the building was torn down and their homes destroyed.

"Israel demolishes east Jerusalem building, evicting Palestinians"

Toronto Housing issues eviction notices to hundreds of Parkdale tenants.

There is a troubling silence surrounding Toronto Community Housing Corporation’s (TCHC) “relocation” of hundreds of Parkdale tenants from the 144-unit building at 300 Dufferin
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Is The Temporary Foreign Worker Program working? We asked 4 Tim Hortons franchise owners, and one slum landlord The Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program allows Canadian employers to hire foreign workers to fill temporary jobs when qualified Canadians are not available, and that's why it is completely uncontro...

Is The Temporary Foreign Worker Program working? We asked 4 Tim Hortons franchise owners, and one slum landlord

New #LongRead by Anushka Dasgupta

Dwelling-in-eviction: Improvised practices of inhabiting Dublin’s private rental sector

Read the full text in #openacess: radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/dwellin...

#LongRead #Eviction #HousingPrecarity #Improvisation #Overholding #UrbanStudies #HousingJustice

#OtD 4 Dec 1969 Chicago Black Panther leader Fred Hampton was murdered while asleep in his bed during a raid on his apartment by Chicago Police in conjunction with the FBI. Mark Clark was also killed, and other Panthers wounded. Learn more about the BPP: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Rent Strikes Since the nineteenth century, working-class families have predominantly relied on tenements for housing, with rents often consuming a large portion of their household budgets. There is a long and cont...

Even more so, I hope that it can inspire tenant activists of today to see themselves as part of a long historical tradition and to reflect upon past experiences.

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Settler colonialism: What’s in a name? Once a radical breakthrough, settler colonial theory now dominates Canadian scholarship. In his review of On Settler Colonialism in Canada, Bryan D. Palmer welcomes its moral clarity but warns that it...

"Too often, the expropriation of land that made capitalist production possible and the separation of producers from their means of subsistence are depicted as consecutive rather than intertwined moments of a single historical process."
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Doug Ford's war on tenants Ontario’s new housing bill is a gift to corporate landlords — and a warning shot at the rent strikers and organizers who dared to fight back

I wrote about how the proposed changes to Ontario's eviction rules are a state response to rent strikes in Toronto that undermine tenant organizing
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Doug Ford's war on tenants Ontario’s new housing bill is a gift to corporate landlords — and a warning shot at the rent strikers and organizers who dared to fight back

Doug Ford’s war on tenants: Ontario’s new housing bill is a gift to corporate landlords — and a warning shot at the rent strikers and organizers who dared to fight back.

New from @colewebber.bsky.social:

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#HousingIsAHumanRight #onpoli

Doug Ford's war on tenants Ontario’s new housing bill is a gift to corporate landlords — and a warning shot at the rent strikers and organizers who dared to fight back

I wrote about how the proposed changes to Ontario's eviction rules are a state response to rent strikes in Toronto that undermine tenant organizing
ricochet.media/justice/hous...