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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services

@kbcls.bsky.social
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Providing legal advice and information to people on low income who live south of Bloor between Ossington and Yonge, and supporting community development and law reform campaigns that benefit working people.

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CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario) @cleolegalrights.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Starting September 21, 2026, the Residential Tenancies Act (RTA) has new rules on unpaid rent, persistent late payments, compensation, and evictions. outreach.cleo.on.ca/en/civicrm/?civiwp=CiviCRM&q=civicrm%2Fmailing%2Fview&reset=1&id=2505
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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Law and compassion
The Neighbourhood Group Community Services is a social agency serving more than 40,000 low-income people and families in 30 locations across Toronto. With more than 1,000 staff and the support of over...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Carney government is using legal tricks to chip away at workers’ hard-won rights. The right to strike is being systematically enfeebled through legal manoeuvring. The working class has had tougher enemies. It will fight back. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The #Carney government "is much more aggressive in its litigation and far less focused on departmental reform and making sure this discrimination doesn't happen again." www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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Carney government files 3rd court challenge in First Nations child welfare complaint | CBC News
The Carney government has filed its third court challenge in a year as a longstanding fight with First Nations organizations over the future of their communities' child and family services continues. ...
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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Follow fairrentontario.ca
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Fair Rent Ontario – Stable Homes. Secure Futures.
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The poor and the law. www.facebook.com/john.clarke....
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Who are the real cartels? Americans it seems. At both borders BTW. #cdnpoli Mexican Pres.: "US Customs and Border Protection data shows that 80% of those arrested for smuggling fentanyl at US ports of entry were US citizens."
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Paul Chislett @pchislett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Portage students protested unfair work permit denials. Then immigration enforcement came to their protest and issued 10 removal orders! Migrants have the right to protest without fear. I sent a letter demanding action. Send yours: migrantrights.ca/RightToProte... #DefendRightToProtest
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Migrant Have The Right To Protest - Migrant Rights Network
250+ organizations across Canada are standing with Portage students and defending migrants’ right to speak out, organize and protest. Migrants are part of our movements. We will not allow immigration ...
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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Please take 2 minutes to complete this survey and please do share it with your contacts in the Chinatown community. This online survey is in English and Chinese: forms.gle/kL9Pn83FyKKx...
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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Please join us September 17, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm RSVP: www.eventbrite.ca/e/489-colleg...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The primary function of non-profits is not to solve social problems, but to run cover for a state that has largely abandoned the direct provision of essential services. As Laurence Braun-Woodbury writes, our housing crisis cannot and will not be solved by a fractious and marketized third sector.
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How not-for-profits make the housing crisis worse
Non-profits no longer exist to supplement social services but to replace them on the cheap. They erode service quality, undermine labour power, and intensify Canada’s democratic deficit. As Laurence B...
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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Your Job is at Risk from Artificial Intelligence… but not for the Reasons You Think - Centre for Future Work
It’s three years since the public launch of ChatGPT, and the rapid roll-out of artificial intelligence apps since then has amplified fears that AI will lead to massive job loss as human workers are re...
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
#Tariffs effectively tax consumption, and lower-income households consume a bigger proportion of their paycheque...Warren Buffett and Elon Musk 'consume' a minuscule proportion of their income and an even lower proportion of their wealth." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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ANALYSIS | How Trump's tariffs work to redistribute wealth up the food chain | CBC News
Though nominally aimed at making foreign "cheaters" pay, the U.S. president's tariffs have in fact been a powerful domestic mechanism for taking money from poor and middle-class Americans and giving i...
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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Please register online: us02web.zoom.us/.../register...
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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The City of Toronto has launched a new Rental Building Violations and Inspections Database. The database provides members of the public with access to information about enforcement activity in rental apartment buildings. www.toronto.ca/community-pe...
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Rental Building Violations & Inspections
Find rental apartment listings with active violations, inspections, health hazards and other concerns across select buildings in Toronto. Each listing covers information that allows you to track inves...
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lorrainelamchops.bsky.social @lorrainelamchops.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
spoke to cbc: if we are concerned abt public drug use, why not address the fact that people have nowhere to go? why not invest in the conditions that prevent people from being stuck outside? stop conflating homelessness w substance use. and the hart hubs are a farce.
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
From 1938, considered the 1st known reference to the term woke youtu.be/VrXfkPViFIE?...
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Lead Belly - "Scottsboro Boys"
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
These results fall into the category of 'overwhelming evidence.' #GlobalHeating
Average global temps since late 90s have risen consistently and dramatically.
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
In two Toronto communities near new transit, nearly 1 in 10 face eviction. How can we protect more tenants? A study of five communities near new UP, Finch West or Eglinton LRT stops found higher eviction rates between 2010 and 2023. www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Ontario is enacting new rules for social assistance payments so people without legal immigration status in Canada cannot receive the benefits. www.cp24.com/politics/que...
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Unregulated power and insatiable greed come in tailored suits ... via Truth Against Hate
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Toronto tenants say federal cash is going to developer who plans to demolish their rent controlled homes. www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
Since receiving notice three and a half years ago that their apartments were to be demolished for condos, Megan Kee and other tenants at their 15-storey midtown building have been living under a cloud of uncertainty. 

They received the notice in November 2022, just after the pandemic market peaked. As the years passed and the condo market slumped, they hoped the slowdown would stall the project near Eglinton Avenue East and Mount Pleasant Road.

But last week they learned federal funding for Toronto rental housing announced by Prime Minister Mark Carney was going toward the redevelopment, and they’re angry that public money is being used for a project that could end in their eviction for the demolition of their homes.
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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Tell Premier Ford Ontario needs full rent control now! fairrentontario.ca
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Fair Rent Ontario – Stable Homes. Secure Futures.
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Cathy Crowe, C.M. 🍁 @cathycrowe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
‼️Thousands of low‑income households in co‑ops rely on rental assistance through the Federal Community Housing Initiative (FCHI) and the Canada Community Housing Initiative (CCHI). FCHI and CCHI are scheduled to end in 2028. Act now to renew rental assistance. share.nwmd.social/s/69eDkP6C
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You Hold the Key: Protect affordable homes. Renew rental assistance.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Here are my four steps you can take to push back the darkness. charlieangus.substack.com/p/push-back-...
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Push Back the Darkness - Four Things You Can Do Right Now
"Wise hope requires that we look the situation in the eye, learn as much as we can about the crisis and then take action anyways.” - Maude Barlow
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CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario) @cleolegalrights.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Check your inbox for On the Radar, CLEO’s bimonthly newsletter. On the Radar helps community workers stay informed about new legal developments. outreach.cleo.on.ca/en/civicrm/?civiwp=CiviCRM&q=civicrm%2Fmailing%2Fview&reset=1&id=2454
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It is vital to discard the notion that #migrants and #refugees are helpless supplicants. They have a huge capacity to organize and struggle and the issue is to act in solidarity with them and provide the most concrete and effective forms of support we can. www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
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Spain deploys military to Ceuta after thousands of people breach Morocco’s border and at least 9 die
Spain will deploy its military to restore order at its border with Morocco in Ceuta after thousands of migrants streamed into the tiny Spanish territory, with at least nine dying in the attempt.
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Trillionaires Are Only Possible Because They Don't Pay Taxes Like Ordinary People www.commondreams.org/opinion/tax-...
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Trillionaires Are Only Possible Because They Don't Pay Taxes Like Ordinary People | Common Dreams
​Without endless tax deferrals, they would have only a tiny fraction of what they own today, yet, as things stand, nothing stops them from wielding the power and influence their wealth buys to benefit...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Mark Carney promised "elbows-up" nation-building. What Canadians are getting instead is a carve-out economy—where environmental protections, Indigenous rights, and labour standards are treated as obstacles to growth, write @shirip.bsky.social and Eve Saint.
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The new rules of Carney’s carve-out economy
It has been one year since Mark Carney introduced the Building Canada Act in Parliament. Since then, a succession of new laws has hollowed out legal protections for the environment, Indigenous rights,...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"The conclusion that nothing can be done is unwarranted and stems from the distortions of the dominant ideology that contends there is no alternative to moving full throttle toward an uninhabitable planet." @johncke.bsky.social on defying despair in the face of climate catastrophe:
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Defying despair in the face of climate catastrophe
The sense of hopelessness generated by the scale and unimpeded advance of global heating extends to other challenges that we must reckon with. Those orchestrating climate catastrophe are also gutting ...
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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Congratulations Mary Jane Mossman! law.queensu.ca/news/Pioneer...
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Pioneering legal scholar and educator awarded honorary Doctor of Laws degree | Queen's Law
Mary Jane Mossman, Law’70, who was the only woman in her graduating class, returns to Queen’s to receive an honorary doctorate recognizing her distinguished career as a legal scholar, educator, and au...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Mexico is solving its housing crisis. Why aren’t we? Claudia Sheinbaum’s reversal of decades of market-driven housing policy offers an important lesson for Canada, writes @laurenceb-w.bsky.social.
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Mexico is solving its housing crisis. Why aren’t we?
The parallel housing journeys Mexico and Canada have been on since the 1990s are now diverging. Claudia Sheinbaum’s government has shown that another path is possible. Canada’s misguided strategies, b...
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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Photos from A TASTE OF MIGRATION, June 12, Kensington-Chinatown Network at Cecil C.C. www.facebook.com/media/set?va...
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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"Parenting as an anthropologist is like seeing into the Matrix: pretty much everything adults do that is annoying and dangerous is just a behaviour that wasn’t intervened in with empathy and care in childhood..." hilaryagro.com/2025/10/15/c...
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Can people with bad political beliefs change?
100% of the people we need to talk to in order to grow the movement have some weird and harmful beliefs. We still need to build with them.
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Why is Mark Carney earning praise from organizations that have spent years campaigning for two-tier health care in Canada? When the loudest applause is coming from groups pushing privatization, Canadians should be worried, writes Christopher Holcroft.
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Under Carney, is Medicare still a Canadian value?
American-funded dark money groups are applauding Mark Carney’s hands-off response to Alberta’s move toward two-tier health care. With Ottawa now embracing provincial “flexibility,” the federal governm...
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
My summer school with the Brothers Karamazov. "In every place today the human mind is starting to lose its awareness of the fact that true security consists not in his own personal, solitary effort, but in the common integrity of humankind.” -Dostoevsky charlieangus.substack.com/p/my-summer-...
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My Summer with The Brothers Karamazov
Since Trump’s return, I have immersed myself in every book I can find that might explain how we got to this moment.
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Ontario Health Coalition @onthealthcoalition.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
From deaths and failed inspections to imperilling the safety of the blood system, the for-profit corporation that the Ford government is allowing to privatize plasma collection must be stopped ⬇️ www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca/index.php/re... #onpoli #cdnpoli #grifols #healthcare #dougford
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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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Sneaky Dee's Was Saved but Nobody at City Hall Should Be Taking a Bow.
The community did this themselves. Don't let anyone at City Hall tell you otherwise.
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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
A reminder that CGEB payments are exempt as income under both OW and ODSP and should not result in a reduction of benefits: OW/ODSP Memorandum, "Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit" (28 April 2026) [CRO No. SAS-G-01552]. www.canada.ca/en/departmen...
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Following June’s one-time payment, Canadians to start receiving first enriched quarterly Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit payment today - Canada.ca
The Government of Canada is relentlessly focused on making life more affordable for Canadians and reducing the cost of groceries and daily essentials.
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CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario) @cleolegalrights.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Steps to Justice has updated information on the amount someone can get from the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP). outreach.cleo.on.ca/en/civicrm/?civiwp=CiviCRM&q=civicrm%2Fmailing%2Fview&reset=1&id=2438
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
American dark money-backed think tanks are celebrating Mark Carney's refusal to intervene as Alberta moves toward two-tier health care. What does that say about the future of Medicare, and the federal government's commitment to defending it?
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Under Carney, is Medicare still a Canadian value?
American-funded dark money groups are applauding Mark Carney’s hands-off response to Alberta’s move toward two-tier health care. With Ottawa now embracing provincial “flexibility,” the federal governm...
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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
www.acto.ca/residential-...
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Residential Tenancies ACT Amendments: Bill 60 & Bill 97 - Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario - ACTO
The Residential Tenancies Act (RTA) is being amended through Bill 60 and Bill 97, introducing…
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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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OW and ODSP rates and OCB as of July 2026: Social Assistance Rates are Stuck in Time - Income Security Advocacy Centre
ISAC’s 2026 Ontario Works (OW) & Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) Rates and Ontario Child Benefit (OCB) Rates Sheet is now available. The Rates Sheet includes: The 1.9% ODSP increase to Basic...
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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Social Planning Toronto released a new report confirming 3 consecutive years of rising child and family poverty rates in Toronto. Read the full report at: www.socialplanningtoronto.org/childpoverty2026
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Advancing the Promise for Toronto’s Children: Child and Family Poverty Report Card, Toronto 2026
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TNG Community Services @tngcommunityto.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Pride is not just a moment — it’s a movement! This Pride Month 2026, we stand with the powerful message of “We Won’t Stop” — a celebration of resilience, pride, and the ongoing fight for equality and justice for 2SLGBTQI+ communities. #Pride2026
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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Renters Action Night, June 22, 6 pm www.jessicabellmpp.ca/rentersactio...
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Renters Action Night
MPP, University–Rosedale
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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
June is Seniors’ Month month in Ontario. It is a time when we recognize the contributions that older adults have made in communities across our province. www.ontario.ca/seniors
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Seniors
See what programs and services are available to help you lead a healthy, active and engaged life over 65.
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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
June 1st, Injured Workers Day, we pay respect to the hundreds of workers who have died or become injured on the job. injuredworkersonline.org
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Injured Workers Online – Working Together for Justice
Working Together for Justice
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