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THREAD: Live from the LTB. Today starting at 9AM the Goodwood Tenant Union argues why corporate landlords shouldn't be allowed to hide their faces from the families they're trying to evict. Login now at bit.ly/SLVCzoom92

#NoCOVIDEvictions #EastYork50 Image
The hearing is delayed 20 mins because of what adjudicator Dale Whitmore calls "technical difficulties". The chaotic online LTB hearings have been riddled with delays, confusion & tech issues, but the LTB is still choosing to make online hearings permanent post-pandemic Image
Hearing to resume at 10AM because Whitmore didn't get the lawyers' written arguments, emailed to the LTB. This issue constantly comes up since the LTB moved online. But the LTB's measure of success is not how fairly its hearings run, but how many evictions it can push through
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The LTB is functioning as an eviction factory. I sat through a day of covid-related hearings yesterday. I was there to serve as a witness in support of the #EastYork50, who have brilliant legal & community backing

But for others, it was a nightmare...
The hearings are chaired by adjudicators who not all thoughtful or even necessarily fair, so tenants are at the mercy of the draw. Some are better (kinder, more willing to listen to tenants’ reasons for their inability to pay arrears) than others.

Some are downright cruel...
In one case yesterday, documented by @Peoples_Defence, a tenant was pressured into signing a repayment plan that he clearly didn’t understand. When a lawyer there for another matter offered to help him, the chair kicked the lawyer off the call instead of agreeing to the help...
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