Community Justice Collective

The Community Justice Collective provides free legal services to organized communities in Toronto and the GTA.

[Community Justice Collective @cjc_TO]

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Our work is always free for our clients, so if you are able to donate to help keep us going, we appreciate it. A monthly donation of $5/month to celebrate our five year anniversary goes a long way! https://t.co/9iRE5EBXOE

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2025 marks CJC's 5 year anniversary! Here are a few things we've partnered with working class movements to accomplish over the last decade:

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➤ Conduct +80 Know Your Rights sessions
➤ Train 200 articling and placement students in movement lawyering
➤ Host +50 convenings for +300 community lawyers and students in Toronto
➤ and much more!

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Premier Doug Ford announced last month that he wants cash bail to be the law of the land in Ontario. But this is not bold new policy. It is a recycled idea from failed experiments in the United States. Read our op-ed for @CDN_Dimension on the cash bail system at the link below

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

THREAD. There are alarming developments in Canada recently. Some politicians are apparently doing their best impression of Trump's Executive Orders on cash bail--they want to determine who is in a cage and who is free with their family based on who pays up-front cash.

[Canadian Dimension @CDN_Dimension]

Doug Ford's plan to require bail cash up front risks cementing a two-tiered justice system: freedom for those who can pay, detention for those who cannot.

Human rights lawyer @simaatri of @cjc_TO on why false, fear-based narratives will not make us safer. https://t.co/eSjtZZFhZG

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The goal of Ford's proposal is to silence poor and working class tenants and the organizations they’ve built, to guarantee continued churn -- the key to the business model of large landlords. #Bill60 #ONPoli #TOPoli
https://t.co/3VERpnxWF1

[Canadian Dimension @CDN_Dimension]

Doug Ford’s new housing law promises efficiency, but its real purpose is to clear the way for evictions and profits.

@Leora_smith of @cjc_TO on why the "Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act" will protect financialized landlords, not tenants: https://t.co/FNfR68Tita

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Read more at: https://t.co/3VERpnxoPt
#Bill60 #ONPoli #TOPoli

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Ford may think that disappearing tenants and their unions from the LTB will disappear them from the city, but it won’t. Read our oped on #Bill60 and how it’s designed to protect financialized landlords: https://t.co/3VERpnxoPt

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In 2020, financialized landlords bought ~90 percent of rental units sold in #Toronto. Nationally, Canada’s 25 largest corporate & financial landlords held ~1/5 of the entire private rental market. Now, these corporate firms want your rent to go up & Ford is making it happen.

[Canadian Dimension @CDN_Dimension]

Doug Ford’s new housing bill has been sold as efficiency reform, yet it prioritizes landlords over tenants. Long-term renters will face faster evictions, fewer protections, and higher rents while corporate landlords consolidate control of the market. https://t.co/FNfR68TQiI

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Toronto! Join us on Sept 18 for a discussion on Copaganda with @equalityAlec, lawyer, author and founder of @CivRightsCorps. Tickets here: https://t.co/Z6P4e9n3S6

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Counsel Call is a know your rights podcast for rejecting fear & building solidarity. Lawyer Sima Atri & organizer/podcaster Aliya Pabani discuss frequently asked legal questions about protests & community organizing. Listen to the whole series here: https://t.co/6WLv87WWwC

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🔊In the latest episode of Counsel Call we’re talking Digital Security with @aliyapabani! Listen here: https://t.co/onC8GHaueR

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Learn about:
❌The two types of information you should never share online
🚔How police surveil protests & what you can do to protect yourself
📱How to make your device more secure in case of arrest
💭What to think about if you’re sharing info before, during & after a protest

[Chiara Padovani @chipadovani]

I gotta give a huge shout out to my neighbour, Yogesh who represented his tenant union like a total boss.

The LTB and Landlord Lawyers can be so scary and disheartening, but Yogesh knew he was standing with hundreds of neighbours at this hearing and was completely FEARLESS!💪🏼❤️