#Ontario landlords have been applying for and granted Above Guideline Increases to tenants' rent, in some cases with unaddressed maintenance issues and work not being done properly. Tenant organizers say that AGIs are "just another way to make rent unaffordable for long term tenants."

Our feature explores AGIs and how tenants are fighting back: https://leveller.ca/2026/05/ontarios-landlord-tenant-board-rubber-stamps-above-guideline-rent-increase/

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“The Board of Governors is not democratic… getting these boards to divest from weapons going to Israel and fossil fuels polluting the world is like pulling teeth.”

April marked one year of Carleton4Palestine protests against Carleton’s administration. We report on their response to student and faculty demands.

Read about it here: https://leveller.ca/2026/05/one-year-later-carleton-board-of-governors-remains-complicit/

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May first marks International Workers' Day. In Ottawa, hundreds took to the streets to celebrate working class solidarity, march in the streets, and speak to pressing campaigns.

Groups we heard from include Punch Up Collective, What's the Winter Plan, SEIU Local 2's Justice for Janitors, Off the Defensive tenants' organizations, Shut Down CANSEC and the CAPE-ACEP labour union.

Read about it here: https://leveller.ca/2026/05/ottawas-may-day-rally-brings-together-communities-common-struggles/

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Next week in #Ottawa a weapons trade fair will be met by protests mobilized by a community opposing war profiteering for decades.

We look at the reasons and history behind Shut Down CANSEC including anti-war successes at having the event banned:

https://leveller.ca/2026/05/a-marketplace-of-mass-death/
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