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Housing and Tenant Rights.

Eviction, the Landlord and Tenant Board, and tenant rights in Ontario.

Feature · J. Okafor · Jun 26, 2026

The car that quietly became a mobile home.

Climate control that runs all night. A camp setting that turns the back seat into a bedroom. A mode that keeps the dog safe and tells the parking lot so. A tow hook for the trailer, and software that steers itself toward the next place. Somewhere in the last few years the family electric crossover stopped being only a car. It became a small house you can move. That is genuinely wild, and it is also a quiet sentence about the country it parks in.

Housing · D. McLeod · May 23, 2026

The car as the last room the country left affordable.

The average asking rent for a one-bedroom apartment in the Waterloo Region is nineteen hundred dollars a month. A used-vehicle payment, on a car purchased three years ago at a price the market now considers entry-level, is three hundred and fifty dollars a month. The country has spent forty years making the room unaffordable and the car inevitable. The country is now surprised when the car becomes the room.

Housing · D. McLeod · Mar 3, 2026

The case for the concession road.

The country's housing market is a predator. The polite advice is to bid harder. The honest advice is to leave. There is more land in this country than in almost any country on earth. Most of it has a road through it, a power line above it, and a price below the median monthly rent in any city worth fleeing.

Immigration · D. McLeod · Jan 22, 2024

The students the country courted, then blamed.

For a decade Canada recruited international students as a revenue stream for starved colleges and a pipeline for a hungry labour market. Then, in January 2024, with rents at record highs, it capped their numbers and let them carry the blame for a housing crisis they did not cause. The cap was real policy with real effects. So was the scapegoating.

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