Financial Accountability Office paper is essential reading for every Ontarian

Part 1: Rent control, rent freezes, vacancy controls—the terms can be hard to keep track of. This is your reference guide.

Part 2: In theory, Canada’s most populous province has protection for tenants. In practice, landlords can find lots of ways to hike up rents.

Part 3: Landlords systematically use AGI applications to bypass provincial guidelines

Part 4: Landlords and developers love scientific-sounding arguments against rent control. There’s just one problem—they’re not true.

Part 5: The policy solutions to skyrocketing rents are quite straightforward—but enacting them means taking on the power of landlords and developers

Part 6: Tenants in Ontario have resources available to defend themselves against landlords—and against bad-faith anti-tenant arguments. Here are a few of them.

#Blocksidewalk was a grassroots campaign that shut down Google's attempt to turn Toronto into a surveillance-driven "smart city"

Yet another missed opportunity to tackle big problems

No province in Canada gives less funding per student to post-secondary institutions than Ontario

Provincial coffers are short $7.7 billion this year

For every dollar per person spent on programs in other provinces, Ontario spent 75 cents

Ontario government is squirreling money away while public services suffer

With that kind of money, developers could buy 60,000 brand new Cadillacs — or 100 high-end private jets

There’s no sign that anybody will face real consequences for the $10 billion giveaway

“All sectors spent less than planned,” Financial Accountability Office says.