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The Montreal Autonomous Tenants’ Union (MATU-SLAM) believe that an equitable housing system will not be achieved through greater rent controls or more social housing but through “decommodifying housing and abolishing landlordism.”

Mainstream media paints the “Mom-and-pop landlord” as the reliable family-oriented owner who lives in the building it rents to tenants. Rather, these owners are part of the landlord class in Canada which work with corporate landlords, rea

As we honor this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we acknowledge the enduring and persistent impacts of colonialism on Indigenous peoples and the ways in which they continue to resist for their sovereignty and liberation.

In his 2020 piece

Homelessness has increased at an alarming rate due to the ever-increasing cost of living and stagnant income levels. In response, municipalities are weaponizing bylaws not only undermine legal precedents but they restrict and target homeless people.

Despite rising rents, evictions, and repressive bills like Bill-60, tenants have been able to collectively organize into unions and win victories like the 2023 York South-Weston rent strike.

Tenant unions, Aniket Kali writes, are “a tool for r

We are excited to bring back our 16th annual Writing in the Margins Contest. This year, we are lucky to be joined by: Iryn Tushabe for creative non-fiction, Morgan Tsetta for photography, and Rollie Pemberton for poetry.

Every year, the Writing in t

Over the past few decades, access to housing across so-called Canada has increasingly become a commodity rather than a right. With the diminishing role of the state in providing affordable housing and the drive by federal governments to invest public

Landlords use renovations to “permanently displace tenants from rental units based on the claim that they will renovate the empty units,” effectively using a process called renoviction.

In an abridged excerpt from their book Renoviction

This weekend, Care Not Cops will be hosting its 4th annual convergence, Speculative Abolition: Art, Documentation and Medico-Legal Disruption, dedicated to anti-carcerality in health care.

In this piece, Care Not Cops members reflect on the past fe

In colonial Canada, access to housing is seen as a source of personal enrichment and economic production. This model has not only sought to forcibly displace First Nations people from their lands but also to attack Indigenous systems of communal livi

Mainstream media and politicians often claim that the housing crisis is due to a shortage of supply.

Blaming immigrants or claiming it’s a shortage of supply, governments fail to address the real cause of unaffordability and homelessness: the

Writing in the Margins is back! Every year, for over 15 years, Briarpatch Magazine hosts a contest for creative non-fiction, poetry, and photography that bring to life issues of social and environmental justice.

We look for writing and photos from

As we mark labour day, the fight for housing justice should not be seen merely as a struggle between landlords and tenants but part of the broader fight against the exploitative capitalist system.

Steve da Silva and Marianne Lau (@otd.toronto) of P

In the past few weeks, we’ve hosted 3 launch events in Montreal, Vancouver, and Regina to celebrate our special Housing Justice issue. We were happy to be joined by writers, journalists, and community organizers in housing advocacy for valuable

Artificial intelligence (AI) is nothing new. But what is new is the latest push for its integration in our daily lives in ways that are largely non-consensual – and the rapid push to build the necessary data centres at scale.

The scale of this

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