Right to Repair (R2R)

Meet Repair Café Toronto’s R2R lead, Ken Vickerson.

Ken is a long-serving jewellery fixer with RCT. Ken has taken on the role of RCT lead regarding right to repair issues and will share information here regarding R2R legislation, news, initiatives, and events. Interested in the subject? Contact ken.vickerson(at)gmail.com.

Listen: Ken & Quentin’s Interview

Check this out! Quentin de Becker of Scarborough Zero Waste (SZW) interviewed Ken on R2R. Their conversation zeroes in on what’s afoot locally, nationally, internationally as at May 2025, and how you can help the cause. Click HERE.

Latest R2R News:

January 2026 – Excerpt from CanRepair’s December 2025 Newsletter:
“Back Again! Right to Repair Makes a Return in Ontario – This Time Even Stronger
Right to Repair is back on the order paper of the legislature of Canada’s largest province!

Earlier this month, MPPs Tom Rakocevic, Terence Kernaghan, and John Vanthof introduced Bill 91, Right to Repair Act, 2025. CanRepair applauds this effort and is calling on all MPPs to support the legislation. The bill would cover automotive, agricultural, consumer electronics and appliance repair, which are some of the highest priority categories of the right to repair movement! 
The bill builds on legislation that had been introduced in 2024, but features even stronger consumer protections. In particular, it…

Provides consumers and repair shops with access, at no or a fair cost, to the tools, manuals, parts and embedded software needed to conduct repair and diagnostic work

Bans parts pairing and requires that the means to bypass digital locks be provided, when needed for repair

Prohibits the voiding warranties solely because of repair by a consumer or independent repair business or because parts not authorized by the supplier were used in the repair 

Gives government the power to levy fines when violations occur and ensures that compensation, or the repair, is provided to the consumer

The proposed legislation is based heavily off of CanRepair’s model bill, which we are encouraging all provinces to use as a template for right to repair legislation in their jurisdiction. You can find our model bill here.“

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Latest R2R Posts

  • Think BIG – Inspiration for Canada
    In the UK, the Restart Project is holding a Repair Café at the House of Commons on June 11, 2025! The UK Repair & Reuse 5-point Declaration, says: For more information visit https://therestartproject.org Thank you, Lawson Hunter (Burlington Repair Café) for sharing this.
  • Informative, Inspiring Interview!
    Quentin de Becker (Scarborough Zero Waste) and Ken Vickerson (Repair Café Toronto) talk right-to-repair.
  • Right to Repair – Legislative Developments
    By Ken Vickerson You might have missed this, I know I did, but there have been some significant developments regarding the “Right to Repair” (RTR) movement both in Europe and North America. In April the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly to adopt legislation(1) that would enshrine various principles of the Right to Repair agenda into law… Read more: Right to Repair – Legislative Developments