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A New Brunswick tenant says he’s being pushed out of his rented bungalow as retribution for complaining about his landlord, but his landlord says she’s the victim of an unfair tenancy tribunal ruling that is preventing her from using the unit to house family. Jonathan King and his landlord, Ashmin …

Several tenants in a building in Winnipeg’s West Broadway neighbourhood say their privacy, rights and safety were violated during months of non-permitted construction this summer, prompting some to leave. But the new owner argues the aging complex needs upgrades and defended management’s notices to tenants. Mira Koop, who moved out …

A wanted fugitive accused of being the ringleader of a grandparent scam has left tenants in two southwestern Ontario cities with a host of maintenance issues and no one to turn to for help.  Gareth West, 45, owns two apartment buildings in London and St. Thomas, according to property records …

A group of tenants on Montreal’s South Shore are accusing their new landlord of pushing them to leave their apartments and they say his behaviour is evidence of a business model that makes money at the expense of low-income, vulnerable people.  They say their landlord, Yosef Rabi, bought the building …

Beverly Hoadley never thought she’d have to move out of her Hamilton apartment of over 50 years.   But now facing a possible eviction, the 87-year-old says she’s afraid she’ll soon have no choice but to leave her beloved home.  “It’s pretty awful,” Hoadley told CBC Hamilton a week before Christmas. …

First, Floyd Poulain’s landlord said he was evicting him to make room for his brother-in-law. Then he said it was because of bad behaviour. But in the end he ensured that Poulain couldn’t stay by throwing out his possessions and starting renovations to his unit. The landlord said Poulain abandoned his …

In the middle of the small crowd — near the tents, the lineup of kids awaiting face painting, the snack table — stood a jubilant Chiara Padovani. “When I say ‘tenant, you say ‘power,’” she commanded to several dozen tenants, who chanted back with gusto. What looked like a summer …

Editor’s note: This article originally provided an inaccurate name for one of the former Birchwood Terrace residents. It has since been updated with the correct name Judy Stanley. We regret the error. It’s been about two and a half months since Birchwood Terrace tenants were vacated from their homes due to …

A Brampton, Ont. woman and her husband say they’re out more than $22,000 in unpaid rent and can’t occupy their only home because a tenant has refused to leave since he was asked to move. “We need to occupy the house,” said Yvonne Folkes, describing months of frustration attempting to …

The province’s police watchdog has cleared an officer who shot dead a landlord who killed two tenants during a dispute at an east Hamilton, Ont. residence last May. Director Joseph Martino with the Special Investigations Unit cited section 34 of the criminal code in his decision saying there was “reasonable …