Don't do this.
You cannot withhold rent unless the landlord's been told to fix the problem, and generally you'll want the LTB to issue that order, rather than withholding it of your own accord. Other jurisdictions will let you do this and/or use escrow, but Ontario isn't one of them.
tl;dr consult a lawyer or paralegal before withholding rent.
Tell me again how both sides are the same?
They're so desperate for a horse race that it's cringeworthy
I hate to say this, but you're probably living in a bit of a bubble. I know I was.
A lot of men, across all age ranges, tend to lean fascist. There's a lot of reasons for this, but the core problem is that progressive neoliberalism does a terrible job speaking to cis-het male anxieties, while fascism welcomes them with open arms.
It's all bullshit, of course, but at least they're being heard.
Progressive politicians really need to let the 1990s go. Third-way triangulation worked great then, but it's ineffective now.
Oil is fungible, lesbianism is not.
Not sure what my point is, there.
Time to institute a specific tax on Loblaw, Empire, Metro and Save-On that goes directly to farmers.
I would add, though, that while farming is not always profitable, the bulk of land is owned by "farmers" that are very wealthy. They're more like real estate investors that employ professional farm managers, then actual farmers.
The old adage is "you don't have a labour shortage, you have a wage shortage", and it's true here. If we had a labour shortage, companies could pay more and/or train people, but that would be expensive. Better to just strip-mine south Asians for every cent they're worth.
I would point you to a recent Lemmy post that shows grocery and processor profits spiking, while farm income is flat.
Cancelling the TFW program would help, sure, but the other half of the coin should be much, much higher marginal tax rates that put a brake on profiteering. One of the reason everything is so theadbare is because the rich are taking an increasing share of the wealth, and the reason they're doing that is because we don't tax them for it. Because we don't tax them, they have no incentive to invest in people or productivity improvements, and every incentive to use those profits for financialization.
When the Thompson family's pet newspaper is saying it's a bad thing, you know we've gone too far.
To be honest, this is probably Couche Tard more than 7-11, but they're both greasing wheels.
I hate Ford as much or more than the average progressive Ontarian, but the origins of the housing crisis predates him by at least fifteen years, if not twenty-five. Many federal and provincial governments have comprehensively failed to address this problem, choosing to do as little as possible to fix it because, dammit, there was so much money to be made allowing the wound to fester.
Now, he's totally helped throw gasoline on the fire, true, but again, he's not alone in that, either.
Welp, that pretty much nixes housing being affordable any time soon.