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'Anti-woke' comedian's show at Thunder Bay Community Auditorium cancelled

"The group includes 70 individuals and representatives of organizations, and describes its purpose as working towards an inclusive, equitable community free of racism and discrimination of any kind." So 70 residents ruined it for the rest of the community because they can't handle some jokes? Freedom of expression only matters when it fits their agenda?

- Real Tradesman

'Anti-woke' comedian's show at Thunder Bay Community Auditorium cancelled

There is nothing less tolerant than a "tolerant" leftist. If an opinion does not come from their echo chamber, it simply cannot be allowed. So much for diversity.

- Axel Schweiss

Local residents protest against tenancy reform bill

I am writing in strong support of Bill 60. Landlords aren’t always large companies or millionaires with unlimited resources. In many cases, they are single homeowners renting out a basement unit or an extra room just to make ends meet. The reason this bill is being put in place is because far too often, tenants have been taking advantage of the current system. When a tenant abuses the process, delays payment, or refuses to leave, it isn’t a corporation that suffers—it’s an ordinary person who suddenly finds themselves at financial risk, sometimes even facing homelessness in their own home.Bill 60 is the right thing to do. It creates more balance, protects small landlords who rely on rental income to afford their mortgages, and ensures the system can’t be exploited to harm the very people providing much-needed rental housing. Fairness must work both ways, and this bill is a necessary step toward that balance.

- OverTheEdge

'Anti-woke' comedian's show at Thunder Bay Community Auditorium cancelled

That's okay, I'll see Ben somewhere else. But I'm a tight budgeter, so those travel costs will have to be offset somewhere..... likely by admission to anything ever hosted at the TBCA again.

- Phil Theodore

Local residents protest against tenancy reform bill

They always talk about the "rich corporate landlords". there are many small landlords that own one or 2 properties that cant afford to be stuck with a tenant that doesn't pay. Many have gone bankrupt because of some tenant that refuses to pay or cant pay and will not leave. It can take 1 to 2 years to get a tenant out leaving the landlord to foot the bill and lose everything. is this really fair?

- Tbay4life

Local residents protest against tenancy reform bill

I feel for the landlords who have to miss 6 months of rent or more to evict someone. We shouldn't go from making one person homeless for not paying their bills to two people (including the landlord). I've had a neighbour who was a drug dealer on ODSP not paying rent. These rules should not protect delinquent tennants. If people are living that close to their means they should seek alternative housing or a different job.

- Link Belowski

Local residents protest against tenancy reform bill

@PositivityHelps There is no sense in the suggestion that the ratio of bad tenants to bad landlords is 1:1. It's not even close. The tenant population in Canada is multiples of the landlord population. There are far, far more bad tenants than there are bad landlords. There are certainly some terrible landlords out there, but let's be realistic. Should a good landlord have to go through months, or years, of proceedings to evict a bad tenant because some bad landlord in another city wasn't acting appropriately? Again, I will back this up by saying that no decent landlord would ever evict a GOOD tenant just because of an incidental late payment due to extenuating circumstances. A good tenant would let the landlord know what's going on and make arrangements. They would not simply refuse, or not bother, to pay on time....or at all. People need to stop looking at this in generalities. Good tenants are assets to the landlord. Why would they want to evict a good tenant? Be a good tenant.

- PABob Ratkins

'Anti-woke' comedian's show at Thunder Bay Community Auditorium cancelled

Watched some of his stuff on Youtube - not funny - just ignorant comments with some swearing. Jim Jeffries is a much better comedian for this type of focus

- dynamiter

Local residents protest against tenancy reform bill

Good enough is enough… landlords should have more rights than tenants… it’s their property. Pay your rent and respect the place or you will be evicted. Why is that a bad thing?

- RIVA WILD

Local residents protest against tenancy reform bill

If u pay your rent, you have nothing to worry about. Tenants have more rights and protection s then landlords. It’s about time a bill like this happened.

- JEdinburgh

Local residents protest against tenancy reform bill

For every bad tenant, there are bad land lords. This whole situation should have been fixed with Ford doing his job and hiring LTB adjudicators to get to the real solutions. They've had nearly 10 years and sat on their hands.

- PositivityHelps

Local residents protest against tenancy reform bill

I wonder what the real reason is that these people are protesting this change on policy. It's very clear to me that they are ignoring the main point, here. NO good tenant is "one emergency or missed paycheque away from eviction," as TBnewswatch chose to focus on be making it the opening line of the article. No landlord is going to evict a good tenant who has a record of consistently paying their rent on time and not causing problems because they have a family emergency or miss a paycheque. If you have a track record of consistently being late on rent payments, causing conflicts or damaging the property, then that's on you and the landlord SHOULD have every right to remove you. I don't know a single landlord who would sacrifice a consistently good tenant who called to explain their unexpected situation because of one late rent payment. This entire article and the people being quoted in it are fear mongering, and nothing more.

- PABob Ratkins

Local residents protest against tenancy reform bill

I know many people who are landlords, none of them are millionaires. They are people looking to plan long term for retirement. What happens to them when a tenant doesn't pay their rent. Do you think the bank calls the landlord and says "sorry your tenant didn't pay the rent, dont worry about your mortgage payment this month", no instead their credit takes a hit or they are paying out of their own personal monthly budget. It is not someone else's responsibility to carry a strangers obligations and for far too long renters have been given all the rights to someone else's home. I encourage some of these people to go and see what a home looks like when a tenant moves out.....it isn't all sunshine and rainbows.

- Johnathan Simkins

Local residents protest against tenancy reform bill

I completely agree. A friend of mine, who is retired, had a tenant who didn't pay rent. It took her nearly a year to evict the tenant. Meanwhile, my friend, who relies on rental income to supplement her pension, had to borrow money from friends and family to stay afloat. When the tenant finally left, the property was damaged and in disgusting shape, yet there is basically no chance my friend will ever see a dime in compensation or get the missing rent. The eviction process needs to be much easier and faster than it has been.

- Axel Schweiss

Local residents protest against tenancy reform bill

The irony here is that one of the main reasons that rental housing is hard to find and expensive is that people no longer want to be a landlord. The law around rental housing is slanted so steeply in favour of the tenant that it just doesn’t make sense anymore. Bill 60 is a much needed step in the right direction.

- WT2

Local residents protest against tenancy reform bill

Tenants have nothing to worry about when they pay rent on time and follow the rules, bill 60 should be of no concerns to tenants. Should they be having an issue with making a rent payment they should have no problem if they speak up to their landlord about the situation before rent is due. The problem is when they don't pay rent on time, landlords like tenants cannot afford this, many landlords are only one payment away from falling behind on the mortgage and bills. For that reason bill 60 is important, and a win for both landlords and tenants. Any one opposed would likely be a tenant no landlord would want.

- GFT

'Not factual': Local hospital the focus of widely-shared AI story

This is especially true when listening to CBC / CTV. Think be you believe their reporting.

- Johnny Best

Local residents protest against tenancy reform bill

If MPP Holland can bring himself to pass legislation such as Bill-60, he should have the guts, human decency, and respect of democracy to be accountable and defend his vote. If not, people know how to vote in the next election.

- jdbjdb

Rural schools closed, rural buses cancelled

I get cancelling the busses, BUT the schools should have remained open! And if ya it's just the public board! Parents can drive their kids to school when busses are cancelled. There is no valid reason for closing the schools! The rest of us all have to get to work still, so teachers and school staff can go to work ! This is too disruptive and stressful to CLOSE all rural schools every time it snows! This wasn't the way things operated a few years ago! And really to close Norwester school! Ridiculous all students live with in a mile or two of that school! We should all call the Lakehead school board and tell them to smarten up!

- J Colby

Local residents protest against tenancy reform bill

...I can show you what bad tenants do to a home...

- Feldwebel Wolfenstool