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  • WIN: TO's new Airbnb rules could bring 5k units back for residents

    Posted on News & Insights by Sutton Eaves · November 21, 2019 10:37 PM

    Clichés be damned! Toronto has shown that when it comes to Airbnb, we can have our cake and eat it too. This week, a provincial tribunal ruled in favour of Toronto’s proposed rules for short-term rentals. The important part is that up to 5,000 Airbnb units could be returned to the long-term residential market in Toronto thanks to the new regulations.

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  • WIN: Ontario court gives another 👍 to pricing carbon pollution

    Posted on News & Insights by Sutton Eaves · July 17, 2019 11:02 PM

    A second provincial court has ruled in favour of Canada's national policy on pricing carbon pollution, and a better future for younger generations. Just before Canada Day, the Ontario Court of Appeal confirmed the federal government's authority to respond to the global climate emergency, including by putting a price on carbon pollution.

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  • WIN: Saskatchewan court gives 👍 to carbon price

    Posted on News & Insights by Paul Kershaw · May 16, 2019 10:59 PM

    When Saskatchewan and Ontario went to court to fight a national carbon price, we formed a coalition and hired lawyers to push back. Our work shows pricing pollution can go hand in hand with affordability, and Canada has — we argue — a constitutional obligation to take emergency-level action to limit global heating to 1.5 degrees.

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  • WIN: Burnaby releases bold 10-part housing plan

    Posted on News & Insights by Eric Swanson · May 16, 2019 10:34 PM

    After honing in on Burnaby — which has the worst rental market in B.C. and the third worst in all of Canada — we've helped the City craft a bold "Quick Start" housing affordability plan to turn things around.

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  • WIN: Generational analysis in Budget 2019

    Posted on News & Insights by Paul Kershaw · March 22, 2019 11:07 PM

    After years of work — and with help from thousands of Gen Squeeze supporters, MPs and staff — we've secured the first-ever intergenerational analysis in a Canadian federal budget. The 2019 federal budget analysis includes three big wins: read on to find out more.

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  • WIN: Parental leave top-up coming even sooner

    Posted on News & Insights by Lyndsey Easton · September 26, 2018 10:05 PM

    Today the federal government announced an expedited five additional weeks of parental leave, available as a “use it or lose it” benefit top-up when both parents agree to share time off to care for a newborn.

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  • WIN: Vancouver approves two new secure rental housing projects

    Posted on News & Insights by Lyndsey Easton · June 08, 2018 10:40 PM

    On June 5, Vancouver City Council voted unanimously in favour of passing two purpose-built rental projects that will provide 61 secure rental homes for local residents at 855 Kingsway and 4459 Rupert St. This is a big win for Vancouver renters — who make up 53 per cent of households — and Gen Squeeze supporters, who rapidly responded to the opportunity to act.

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  • WIN: B.C. expands Foreign Buyers Tax

    Posted on News & Insights by Lyndsey Easton · March 26, 2018 11:20 PM

    The B.C. government has strengthened the Foreign Buyers Tax by raising it from 15 to 20 per cent, and by expanding it to Greater Victoria, the Fraser Valley, the Central Okanagan, and the Nanaimo area — something we've been calling for since early 2017!

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  • WIN: younger Canadians recognized as vulnerable in the National Housing Strategy

    Posted on News & Insights by Lyndsey Easton · December 01, 2017 10:10 PM

    We achieved an important victory this week by getting young adults added to the list of vulnerable groups in Canada's new National Housing Strategy ("NHS"). A big thanks to volunteer and Gen Squeeze advisor N.K. Singh and to Vancouver Quadra MP Joyce Murray for helping lock in this small change, which has the potential to make a big difference for young people!

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  • WIN: Vancouver passes new 10-year housing strategy

    Posted on News & Insights by Lyndsey Easton · November 30, 2017 10:31 PM

    On Nov. 23 and after more than a year of consultations — including with Gen Squeeze — the City of Vancouver released its 10-year Housing Vancouver Strategy. After reading the 80+ pages we knew right away it was one of the strongest municipal housing strategies we had ever seen, and needed to be passed.

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