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Tenants gathered in Thorncliffe Park on Sunday to mark almost one year of withholding rent from their landlords in a bid to convince them to drop their applications to raise rents above the provincial guideline.

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The Ontario Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) has granted a landlord’s request to expedite the hearings for contentious, above-guideline rent increase (AGI) applications at three high-rise apartment buildings in Toronto’s east end.

The Ontario Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) has granted a landlord’s request to expedite the hearings for contentious, above-guideline rent increase (AGI) applications at three high-rise apartment buildings in Toronto’s east end.

Some tenants of a Thorncliffe Park apartment complex who have been withholding rent in protest of the above-guideline increases being sought by their landlord have been served with eviction notices.

Their landlords have proposed a nearly 10 per cent rent increase in the past two years