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Ottawa’s ByWard Market vendors are fighting back against a multi-million dollar revitalization plan they fear will force them out—calling it “renoviction.” After posting posters urging residents to contact the mayor and demanding the plan be repealed, the Market Authority swiftly removed them, citing tenancy violations. Longtime vendors, including Maxine Hill of Canada in a Basket, who’s been there for 30+ years, say they’re not trying to stir trouble—they just want to be heard and included in shaping the future, not displaced. Their petition to city council last July went unanswered, prompting the protest campaign. Critics, including an urban architect, see the poster crackdown as censorship driven by fear of displacement. Vendors warn that turning the historic market into a cafeteria-style space could ruin its charm and hurt Ottawa’s character.

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