Here's a shocker -- Landlord kills tenants who asked for repairs

The Maple (a Canadian progressive newsletter) directed  me to this under-reported story:

On Saturday, a landlord in Hamilton, Ont., shot and killed his two tenants who had approached him asking for repairs to be made to their unit. He took aim at them and fired his gun as they were fleeing from the home. A few hours later, police shot and killed the landlord following a standoff at the house, in which the landlord and the tenants had both lived in.

There is much more about the pressures on renters in Ontario and the rest of the country, but this is the heart of it.

Now I am no Marxist but an over-used phrase is appropriate here:  class warfare.  The rest of the Maple report refers to the large number of landlords who sit in the Canadian Parliament and the great advantages that landlords have in disputes, even when tenants exercise their right to appeal what they think are unreasonable rent increases,  The article goes in some detail about both topics.

Last year a trucker-led march  (the "Freedom Convoy") besieged the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa protesting masking policies meant to control the spread of COVID.  Others blocked the most important border crossing (Windsor-Detroit).  This march did not get a lot of sympathy from the population at large,  in part because the truckers were unbelievably rude.  Their main tactic was honking their horns day and night for weeks, making the lives of people who live in downtown Ottawa hellish.  The protesters claimed to be (or at least represent) the people but harassed people using the streets or going in and out of their homes.  Their "power" went to their heads and the way they used it

Since the Convoy I have a vision of another march:  the Rent March. There are far more people suffering from impossible rent increases and the impossibilities of buying a house than there are anti-vaxxers.  Many people have to choose between rent and food.  If they got organized and marched on Queen's Park (how people refer to Ontario's provincial parliament), it might be a very large march indeed.  Maybe this seems unlikely, but the pressure is building up.

Oh, yes. After the landlord had killed his tenants, the police showed up and tried to arrest him. Their efforts were in vain, and they shot and killed him.  If this was the initial skirmish of class warfare, nobody won.