Perfect storm hits as COVID-19 outbreak sweeps through Hamilton apartment building
Rebecca Towers is the first residential high rise in the city where an outbreak has been declared. Sixty-seven cases have been recorded there since mid-March. One resident has died.
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Parkdale tenants keep their rent over building upkeep
The tenants are withholding partial rent from their corporate landlord in response to what they call unfair living conditions By Julia Mastroianni
Google Street View of 55 Triller Avenue in Parkdale.
Tenants in a Parkdale building are withholding a third of their rent in an effort to send a message to a corporate landlord over what they call unfair living conditions.
The building, located at 55 Triller and managed by DMS Property Management Ltd, was bought by Starlight Investments a year ago.
Starlight filed the highest number of applications for above-guideline rent increases in Toronto between 2012 to 2019, according to a recent report by RenovictionsTO.
Homeless Encampment Evictions Highlight the Cruelty of Capitalism Amid COVID
Advocates for the homeless and frontline health care workers stage a socially distanced protest aimed at speeding up what they say is Toronto s slow approach to managing COVID-19 in shelters, in Toronto, Canada, on April 15, 2020.
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In Canadaâs homeless encampments, two faces of state brutality are on display. One is the âorganized abandonmentâ that has relegated hundreds of thousands across Canada to homelessness (at twice the rate as in the United States). The other is the âorganized violenceâ that evicts homeless people from encampments erected in the shadow of the stateâs malign neglect.