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Many of us who live in larger buildings know how hard it can be to get a hold of the actual landlord. Often there are layers of property management staff between tenants and the owners of buildings.
With that in mind, I found this 1991 article that describes a rowdy protest at Queen’s Park against rent control by (gasp!) actual landlords joined by construction contractors interesting.
Note the inventive protest techniques – maybe we can learn from them (LOL).
Rent-control protest went over the top
Ottawa Citizen – November 22, 1991
by Jim CoyleToronto — Housing Minister Evelyn Gigantes has seldom sounded so eloquent, rarely seemed so reasonable, probably never made her case so well.
And she didn’t say a word.
She couldn’t. The band of slavering landlords, construction workers and contractors who showed up Thursday at Queen’s (more…)
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