legal clinic worker in Parkdale
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Apr 14
My book on renovictions, co-authored with Philip Zigman, is now available for pre-order
Apr 14
Excited to announce that Renoviction and Resistance in the Capitalist City, by Cole Webber and Philip Zigman, comes out in June. The book looks at how and why landlords renovict tenants and how tenants have organized to fight back and keep their homes.
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ALT Photo of book cover “Renoviction and Resistance in the Capitalist City — Cole Webber and Philip Zigman”
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Cole Webber retweeted
Jun 15
‘Renoviction and Resistance in the Capitalist City’ by Cole Webber and Philip Zigman is a case study on how to fight against wrongful eviction. torontotoday.ca:443/local/re…
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Jun 12
RT @KindaHagi: bosnian fans marching through toronto and chanting free palestine im hoping they win
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Cole Webber retweeted
My belated attempt to intervene in the Capital translation discourse while also thinking about how it connects to the history of the Marx revival
Chris O'Kane presents the latest edition of Marx’s Capital as another attempt by translators to crystallize a particular political interpretation of Marx—this time, the novel synthesis misapprehended as a straightforward “Marx revival.” @chrisokane_nyc
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Jun 11
no one wants to see you north of Bloor anyway
Jun 10
Updated Toronto vibes map after living here for almost 4 years.
Toronto is a New York bordered by 8 Houstons
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Jun 11
sullying a fairly respectable tradition of east coast migration to Toronto, hate to see it
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Cole Webber retweeted
Jun 11
Anyone else horrified by the number of police on in the subways system today? My observation is they are either looking at their phones or roaming in groups of 10 kicking homeless people out of the subway stations.
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We've created individual child and family poverty rate profiles for each of Toronto's 25 wards. socialplanningtoronto.org/ch…
Jun 9
New child poverty report finds the ward Parkdale-High Park to have the lowest child poverty rate in Toronto, and Jameson and West Lodge—where Parkdale tenants are concentrated—to have child poverty rates comparable to wards with the highest rates in the city
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Cole Webber retweeted
Jun 10
❗️HAPPENING NOW ❗️
Striking workers occupy Donna Skelly’s office in Hamilton.
@SpeakerSkelly these workers are putting their livelihoods on the line, the time is NOW to join the call for funding for critical services that your constituents need.
#WorthFightingFor #onpoli
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Cole Webber retweeted
Jun 10
Join us next Thursday at 6:30pm for the launch of Renoviction and Resistance in the Capitalist City
Book launch for Renoviction and Resistance in the Capitalist City featuring @colefwebber
and Philip Zigman in conversation with Kevin Laforest.
@renovictions
🗓️June 18, 2026, 6:30pm–8:30pm ET
📍Queen Books, Toronto, ON
🔗 Register via Eventbrite: tinyurl.com/58ebdz8j
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Cole Webber retweeted
Jun 10
“[T]he LTB established with the case of [795 College] that it has no authority to reinstate a renovicted tenant who wishes to return to their unit once the landlord has rerented [it]. In light of this[…], why should tenants consider its authority to evict them to be legitimate?”
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Jun 9
New child poverty report finds the ward Parkdale-High Park to have the lowest child poverty rate in Toronto, and Jameson and West Lodge—where Parkdale tenants are concentrated—to have child poverty rates comparable to wards with the highest rates in the city
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Cole Webber retweeted
GREAT CONTRIBUTION TO MARXIST THEORY OF RENT, BOTH THEORETICALLY AND EMPIRICALLY...
I am so happy to see Ilia's excellent dissertation, in which I was proud to be involved, is finally out in book form, albeit only in PDF form so far.
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Jun 4
Since the late 1990s, the proportion of Ontarians eligible for welfare has been cut in half. Meanwhile, a private claims administrator involved in the program received $672 million from Ontario in 2023-2024
Jun 4
A new report from OPSEU/SEFPO argues the Ford government has been funnelling billions of taxpayer dollars into private, for-profit intermediaries all while underfunding frontline services.
opseu.org/worth-fighting-for…
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Jun 3
doing a Toronto post: the photo I snapped from the window as the train pulled into Union pleases me
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Jun 2
If there's one place that can't afford any further blows to its literacy levels, it's the valley
Five Annapolis Valley libraries to close July 20
saltwire.com/nova-scotia/ann…
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Jun 1
the terms of toronto's host city agreement with FIFA requires us to put all kinds of public resources towards defending FIFAs intellectual property. bylaw officers are gonna be put to work crackin down on bars hosting events etc. the money is supposed to flow upwards and out
Toronto police make largest seizure of counterfeit soccer jerseys in Canadian history cp24.com/local/toronto/2026/…
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Cole Webber retweeted
May 29
my article's up online now, so that's cool. I'd appreciate if you'd read it, please. thank you. (fair warning, it's kind of a downer.)
read.dukeupress.edu/labor/ar…
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Cole Webber retweeted
I heard an AI guy say people are upset at AI because they get uneasy about rapid change. But what change are we experiencing from LLM AI? I don't see any. AI is an avatar for legitimate class grievances, concerns about elite political capture and economic precarity.
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