“I don't understand how one human being could do this to another human being. This could actually kill me at this stage in my illness,” Abra Shiner, a longtime residential tenant and owner of a popular Toronto bar, told CTV News Toronto.
“It’s just a matter of time before it hits an organ we can’t cut out,” Shiner said about the illness spreading through her lymphatic system. Her ovaries are scheduled to be removed next week.For months she said she was managing, balancing doctors’ appointments, treatment, surgery and running, her beloved bar of seven years at Dundas Street West and Brock Avenue. Consistent with her more than two decade rapport, she said she has continued to pay her rent early or on time.
“I don’t want to have my entire life uprooted and destroyed. Displacing me from my home, I wouldn't be able to survive the stress of moving 23 years of life.” who will “consider the circumstances of both parties” when an eviction hearing takes place, the LTB told CTV News Toronto.
The same people complaining about housing costs are seemingly unable or unwilling to address one of the main contributing factors. This makes them dangerous.
See ya!
If it wasn’t sold to new owners then she would’ve been good. They can get you out of your rent/lease by just listing the house for sale, because it’s a private owner renting/leasing, not a company building like an apartment building.
Where is the mayor here !! And the bunch of talkers, there at the city hall. She need to recover. That’s all.
It’s always “one of the children” or “family member” It’s a game scum landlords play. Allows them to legally evict, wait the necessary period of time, renovate and raise the rent astronomically for new tenants. Greedy landlords finding loopholes and screwing over good people.
fordnation JohnTory This is what happens when you don’t care about people renting appts. But hey, as long as the developers can take our clean air and erase the Greenbelt, your buddies will love you. Karma is a bit.. whatever you put out there is what you get back. Shame on you
We need better government than we're getting. Life is becoming far too stressful for so many of us & when our healthcare system is being privatized by politicians w/out mandates to do so. This is no way to be treated. This person's been paying taxes for yrs, runs a business ffs.
Maybe live in your bar?
Because she has terminal breast cancer the owner of the building she lives in can't sell it? I feel sorry for her, but this touchy feely bullshit it is misplaced. This is just yet another part of her life The media is turning it into a sob sorry pity party
Sounds like they are kicking out someone who pays the lowest rent because they’ve been there the longest so they can slap a coat of paint on and triple the rent. Fact the tenant has cancer appears coincidental. Need more protections and fines for “LL wants to move in” lies.
Renovictions are leaving Ontario in ruin.
Slums lords will be slumming
Can we drop the building/Apartement owners in here?
❤️ Move. People will help. You dont need this BS. elimiate your streso. Never understand ppl sometimes.
Business never personal
Unreal.
Get educated, get a job, work hard and buy yourself a properly!! Take responsibility for your self!!! Oohh but T.O. is so expensive 😥😥 then move!!
losinghopein Amazing how it's always one of the landlords family that 'plans to use the unit' It never happens. He'll boot her and rent to someone else for twice the price. There should be severe penalties for this.
losinghopein The unfettered financialization of housing (a basic human need!) is causing so much suffering. It's pathetic that Ford and Tory are not only not doing anything about it, they're making it worse
If she simply refuses to leave, it will take 2 years for InfoLtb to get around to a hearing.
consider this a signed petition
Reposting the same article? Why? If you need better writers, let me know :)
An immediate family member of the new owner plans to live in the unit. Legally, that’s a slam dunk.
The Title should say “government does nothing for our citizens in need”. It’s Not the landlords fault he has bills to pay too. All thought if she ask the government they probably would just offer her assist death.
Don’t understand this headline!? 23 years or 100 years. She doesn’t own it she has to go. Not her property!!! I hope she gets better and that her cancer is a curable type!
Why is this news? BadJournalism
Omg torrent of landlord bile. Have you no shame
Place has sold, new owners can do whatever they like unfortunately. Cancer or not. It just so happens she has cancer. That's the only difference. It's a shit world we live in with shit people, get use to it.
Also post the other side of story
This is sad news. I hope she finds and gets the help she needs.
No worries - trudeau is giving families 7500 dollars to renovate their homes now to move those family members in. :) That will surely fix it.
Unfortunate that she has cancer, but the new owners are just that - owners. I'm sure this lady would place her family over someone elses in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, life isn't fair.
This is not news.. we don't care
If you owned a bar in TO surely you must have a rainy day fund?
Put that as your Kijiji add, then people will come to you with an offer that suits the both of you.
WouldStaley93 something is missing from this story
These things are not related. Stop trying to make them related. This is capitalism. It doesn’t care if you’re dying.
Landlord (the new owners of the property) will lose this if they take it to LTB. Ownership aside, you must serve your tenant proper notice. I hope she knows that.
That is not the new owners problem.
Hope her family or patrons step up and find her a place. Landlord has no fault here
Most landlords aren’t charities. Sucks that she has cancer.
Sad news but the reality is what it is. Very sorry that it happens this way sometimes.
That’s very sad news to hear the super don’t have any Remorse about anyone 🤬😡
Landlords aren't known for their generosity.
So I guess she’d better move
The landlord is a cockroach!
Unfortunate, but that's the life of a renter - house was sold to new owners. Rental housing is not social housing, thus the new owners have no obligation to house her.
Its doesnt matter how long she has lived there, what she does for a living, nor what her health complications are. This is not a charity or npo.
I know they left me for 15 years they don't care I will not stop exposing this company Wich is run by gov wsib bunch of thiff s period.investigate them.
This when you work not when you stay at home no rights at all ill and homles is a new thing long time a go caurds I can call the human at all but you will see when it hapen to you samthing you get what you do to others poor lady.
It is unfortunate timing due to her cancer but the house was sold to new owners. They are under no obligation to keep a renter if they do not want one. She has to move.
It's unfortunate but she doesn't own the place! Owners have to have rights too. Their property and finances can't be held hostage because the tenant has fallen ill.
Doctors are going to convince her to MAID herself so they can collect organs to sell.
No offense what does cancer have to do with rent?
Typical entitlement of white women
So? What part of renting do people not understand that you can’t live there forever?