Dozens of demonstrators occupy two ramps leading to the parking garage at the Superior Court of Ontario
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Activists and protesters gathered outside a Toronto courthouse this morning to physically block the city’s rental enforcement units from conducting evictions.
“This conversation has been happening for six months,” Mr. Joshi said, pointing out calls from housing activists to freeze rent payments going as far back as March. Last month, Queen’s Park passed Bill 184 – the Protecting Tenants and Strengthening Community Housing Act – which received widespread condemnation from housing-rights activists who say the law gave landlords excessive power to evict tenants.
Paterson Hodgson, a tenant at Westlodge Towers in Parkdale and housing-rights organizer, is not confident elected officials will make much of a difference in the battle against pandemic evictions.
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