{"id":50722,"date":"2025-11-24T19:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/50722\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T19:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:52:09","slug":"passage-of-housing-bill-sparks-protest-clearing-of-queens-park-public-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/50722\/","title":{"rendered":"Passage of housing bill sparks protest, clearing of Queen&#8217;s Park public gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">TORONTO \u2014 Shouts and chants rained down upon politicians at the Ontario legislature Monday as the government passed a housing bill that critics say makes it easier for landlords to evict tenants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Queen&#8217;s Park security eventually cleared the public gallery in order to complete the final vote on Bill 60.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Premier Doug Ford told the yelling crowd to &#8220;go find a job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Members of ACORN Canada, a tenant advocacy group, were kicked out after chanting &#8220;people over profits&#8221; at the time of the vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The organization says the bill accelerates evictions and strips tenants of their ability to defend themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Housing Minister Rob Flack says the province is restoring balance in the landlord-tenant system and maintains tenant protection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 24, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Liam Casey, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Shouts and chants rained down upon politicians at the Ontario legislature Monday as the government passed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[5648,9,24,63,28349,122,124,123,28350],"class_list":["post-50722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-bill","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-premier-doug-ford","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}