Cole Webber

My book on renovictions, co-authored with Philip Zigman, is now available for pre-order

@debbierachlis @dsherwoodb @readBTLbooks Thanks, Debbie!

@colefwebber @dsherwoodb @readBTLbooks Ooooh so excited for this!!

Check out the May 1 sale tomorrow @readBTLbooks and get 30% off your pre-order

@JoannaLavoie @readBTLbooks Thanks, Joanna!

@colefwebber @readBTLbooks congrats!!!

Roncesvalles renoviction: naturopathic landlords, a TikTok influencer, lawyer's letters, and two tenant families who won't back down torontotoday.ca/local/real-est…

@anotherglassbox this is neglect of his duties of public office

I ran into Gord on the subway ~1 year after he left Twitter and he grabbed me by the shoulders, looked me in the eyes, and told me quitting had improved his mental health/life. This is a real story, I’m still on Twitter, and earlier this year I had high blood pressure issues.

Gord Perks back on twitter when

My book is now available online for those of you who have access to such things brill.com/display/title/…

Election season is going to be even more obnoxious than usual

Showed the new @ParkdaleLegal student caseworkers around the neighbourhood and ran into Kim from 12 Lansdowne who schooled us on the fight against renoviction at her building a few years back

It's been a long time in the works, but undead is finally ready to start taking preorders for the reprint run of Endnotes #1-4. The preorder period ends May 11th. @endnotesjournal

Doug Ford just gave a $300 million loan to a private equity fund run by a weed entrepreneur. to buy up unsold condos, bail out developers, and keep housing unaffordable

"Bourgette’s situation is part of a broader dispute at 388 Roncesvalles Avenue, where tenants are at odds with the building’s owners—who also own and operate Bloom Health Clinic on the ground floor—over eviction notices and the future of the property." cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

@laundryy_dj Thanks, man!

@colefwebber great news

My book on renovictions, co-authored with Philip Zigman, is now available for pre-order

credit where credit is due: this is good jacobin.com/2026/04/review…

HM Book Series forthcoming softcover Phil A. Neel: Hellworld: The Human Species and the Planetary Factory historicalmaterialism.org/book-series/he…

Presented without editorial judgement; from my news roundup this morning

Summary of the current strike / riot wave in Delhi and beyond... @longhaul_mag @NotesFrom_Below @ElSalariado @FAUGewerkschaft @labournettv @weareplanc @heatwvmag @adam_tooze @as_a_worker angryworkers.org/2026/04/15/mee…

Excited to announce that Renoviction and Resistance in the Capitalist City, by Cole Webber and Philip Zigman, comes out in June. The book looks at how and why landlords renovict tenants and how tenants have organized to fight back and keep their homes. btlbooks.com/book/renovicti…

@dsherwoodb Thanks, Dave!

@colefwebber I’ve preordered one for me, one for work, and one as a loaner copy haha

Local Roncesvalles book store @AnotherStoryTO has ordered “a huge stack”, so preorder with them now or swing by in June to grab one (or two, or three)