Archive 1997-2016
With photos of rotting teeth and cancerous lungs, the new graphic warnings on cigarette packs are causing headaches for some local smoke shop owners and translating into profits for others.
An old, wry adage advises that we should never attribute to malice what can be explained by carelessness. Applying that wisdom to Ontario’s Tenant Protection Act suggests its designers were very careless indeed.
People always win when they talk out their problems, says Ontario Rental Housing Tribunal mediator Walter Williams. And he wishes more cases seen by the tribunal would go to mediation.
Scott Foster reports on what happens when all attempts to settle a rental dispute fail.