Toronto Renters Forum
Common Tenant Problems => Pests => Topic started by: anonymoustenant on October 20, 2022, 12:37:33 pm
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Ottawa tenant wins landmark ruling on bed bug treatments
The owner of a Heron Gate high-rise has had its knuckles rapped by Ontario’s Landlord and Tenant Board and has been ordered to pay expenses to a former tenant for failing to properly respond to the tenant’s complaints of a bed bug infestation.
(in the Ottawa Citizen, hopefully you all can read it...)
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/ottawa-tenant-wins-landmark-ruling-on-bed-bug-treatments (https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/ottawa-tenant-wins-landmark-ruling-on-bed-bug-treatments)
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Does anyone know the file or case name used in this decision?
https://www.canlii.org/en/on/
https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onltb/
If you know of the names or a link please post a link to the actual decision here.
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I was able to look at the Ottawa Citizen item and yes, it was was a good one.
Notice how (at the bottom of the newspaper piece) a landlord suggests "dirty tenants are the problem" - a bit overstated, but you can bring in "visitors" via something as innocuous as a library book. (The librarian freaked when I showed her this picture.)
(https://25problems.com/images/deadbug.jpg)
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Those "canlii dot org" pages are strange - or perhaps I'm missing something here.
Typing in "xyz" as your search string can return literally hundreds of hits; in this case "bedbugs" delivered about 400 from the first link and 300 from the second one. Worse, the first field returned is an alphanumeric file labelling designation, not a "newspaper headline" or other, more recognizable, piece of information.
NB. One of the linked... pages in the thread takes you in a different, but still rather extreme direction in terms of the presentation (http://www.ontariotenants.ca/energy-articles.phtml) of the contents of a list.