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Legal aid lawyers in Quebec hold half-day strike

  • Post Author By Rimuru
  • Post Date July 28, 2024
Legal aid lawyers in Quebec hold half-day strike

A group of legal aid lawyers is going on strike for half a day on Monday, while the renewal of their collective agreement remains unresolved with the Quebec government.

The group is made up of lawyers attached to the CSN-affiliated Fédération des professionnels, who were on strike in the morning after they walked out earlier this month.

In mid-June, lawyers in the Montreal-Laval, Bas Saint-Laurent-Gaspésie and Laurentides-Lanaudière regions also voted in favor of another strike mandate, this time for seven days, to be exercised at the appropriate time.

The other group, the Fédération des avocates et avocats de l’aide juridique,

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Soaring housing costs have renters mulling how they’ll vote in the midterms

  • Post Author By Rimuru
  • Post Date December 29, 2022
Soaring housing costs have renters mulling how they’ll vote in the midterms
Soaring housing costs have renters mulling how they’ll vote in the midterms.

Soaring housing costs have renters mulling how they’ll vote in the midterms.

Shacoma Wilton-Waddell always thought she’d be a homeowner by now.

Instead, the 41-year-old clinician at a domestic abuse shelter in Tucson, Arizona, was forced to downgrade from a two-bedroom to a one-bedroom rental apartment last month.

“It has been a nightmare. I have moved multiple times. I’m seeing some of the same units in the same properties rent for double the price, and nothing has changed as far as the aesthetic,” she said. “It’s not like they’re adding amenities and upgrading the units. They’re literally just changing the

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