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TORONTO Public health and housing advocates are demanding the return of eviction bans across Canada and feel their arguments are bolstered by a new study that found the policy stopped the spread of COVID-19. People who were evicted and the households that took them in had a 1.5-to-2.5-fold higher risk of being infected than if eviction bans were in place, researchers at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania found. Although many provinces enacted eviction bans early on in the pandemic, by autumn 2020, most of those provinces rescinded those policies, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. ....
Ontario could fine people $25,000 for recording eviction hearings nowtoronto.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nowtoronto.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
TORONTO A single father facing eviction from his Toronto home says dozens of police officers stormed into his apartment on Good Friday, a day before the Ontario government enacted a province-wide shutdown. Hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, Alex, the father of a one-year-old baby and six-year-old child, said he has been having trouble paying rent on time for his apartment unit at 33 Gabian Way in Toronto for a few months now due to the pandemic. The father told CTV News Toronto on Tuesday that he made a verbal agreement with his landlord to have the arrears ready to be paid by March 29, but when he managed to collect the amount plus an extra two months of rent by the due date, the Sheriff’s Office knocked, without warning, on his door to evict him. ....
Toronto advocates furious after dozens of cops show up to a residential eviction blogto.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from blogto.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
As Ontario’s eviction blitz continues, Toronto tenants fight for a ban The Landlord Tenant Board has processed thousands of eviction applications since Doug Ford s government lifted a moratorium in the summer By Julia Mastroianni Courtesy of Parkdale Organize Metcap tenants from across Toronto rallied on December 5, 2020 in a protest against evictions and rent. increases During the pandemic, Toronto renters have been fighting for rent relief in the face of lost jobs and income, and an eviction ban. But with Toronto in a second lockdown and many tenants still out of a job, the Ontario Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) has begun, as one adjudicator put it, an “eviction blitz.” Hearings last mere minutes and tenants who have no way to pay rent are handed eviction orders. ....