CITY OFFICIALS, CONTINUE, TO ALLOW THE OWNER, TO BREACH THE LAW.
FIVE MONTHS ON, TENANTS OF THIS ILLEGAL ROOMING HOUSE, SAYS
THAT LANDLORD, HAS NOT GIVEN THEM ANY NOTICE, TO MOVE OUT.
DESPITE THE OWNER, BEING GIVEN A NOTICE, TO BRING THE BUILDING
UNDER COMPLIANCE, BY MARCH 18, 2019.
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| Illegal Rooming House, located at 8 Medford Avenue, in scarborough. There is overcrowding, no fire separation doors and a faulty electrical system. And on top of that, is the fact that the tenants are exposed, to further danger from a fire, by the tenant living in the boiler room. |
It looks like a typical single family dwelling, on a residential street. The difference though is that this house has at least nine tenants, a faulty electrical system, no fire separation doors and other numerous fire code violations. With four tenants on each floor and another tenant on the third floor, who shares the apartment with the owner. Tenants, also complained of drug use and trafficking, by one or more of the tenants, of the building. Making it unsafe in many ways for the tenants.
The owner of the illegal rooming house, Angela Sterling, brags of owning three such houses and of also owning a jaguar car, which is parked at the back of the building, besides her two other mini vans. She also charges on average, between $550-650, for each rooms, bringing the total average monthly rent, to about $5,000.00- $6,000.00. We can also assume, that Canada Revenue Agency, hardly knows of all of that income, since the entire business is also illegal.
What stands out above all of these, however, is the reaction from Toronto city officials, towards this particular landlord. To say that it is unusual, or out of the ordinary, would be an understatement, when it is compared to how other homeowners, has fared under those same investigations. This one has never been charged, for operating an illegal rooming house. Nor has city officials taken into consideration, the fact that this greedy landlord, is also exposing her tenants to further danger, such as from a fire, by not having the building properly installed, with fire protection installations, and the major one being, fire separation doors for each floor of the rooming house. Previously, the owner also had not installed, any carbon monoxide, or smoke alarm detectors, especially in the basement units, which also contains four of the tenants, illegally. One tenant complained and got those devices installed. But no further actions were taken to protect the tenant's safety, by the Toronto Fire Services.
The biggest problem that exist, from Toronto city officials, is allowing the owner to continue to exposed the tenants to danger from a fire, by allowing her to continue to rent out her furnace room and another room, which is considered as part of the kitchen, to two of her tenants. None of these areas are to be used for sleeping purposes, but the owner and the corrupt city officials, allow it anyway. This dangerous situation and an obvious fire hazard, is also part of the Toronto Fire Services corruption, under its current chief, Matt Pegg. Other officials involved in the conspiracy, included those in the Municipal Licensing Standards and the Building Divisions, who has not not even bothered, to enforced the by-laws, as far as this landlord.
If you think that these are minor concerns, you need to think again. Major fire code violations are
the cause for immediate charges, by the Toronto Fire Services, in other cases. So why not this one?. What is the relationship between this landlord and those city officials, that they would go to such length, to protect her actions. Even over that of their public careers. Because they should also know that, once the public gets a hold of what they are up to, they would also not stand for it.
Since this landlord, has not issued any notices to the tenants, to find other accommodations, due to the fact that she has also been ordered, to shut down the illegal rooming house, one can fairly assumed, that is is because of the corruption of the city officials involved, in that investigation. Five months after investigating the property, there have been no compliance made by the owner. She continues to operate her illegal rooming house, without any fear of facing prosecution, over her actions. And she also continues to endanger, the safety of the tenants as well.
Below is a list of the names of the Toronto City Officials, who has helped this property owner to continue to break the law, over her illegal rooming house.
Toronto Fire Services: Fire Chief, Matt pegg
Deputy fire Chief, Jim Jessop
District Chief, Jim silverthorn
Fire Inspector, Ashleigh Brown
Fire Inspector, Brian Lam
Municipal Licensing Standards: James Slocum, Manager
Muhammad Qumar, Inspector
Building Division: karim Gillani
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| Angela Sterling, owner of the illegal rooming house located at 8 Medford Avenue, in Scarborough. She is alleged to have made death threats, to one of her tenants, to have the tenant shot. Here, she is holding a glass vase, in a video of an assault by her, upon the same tenant. She is due in Provincial Court, at 1911 Eglington Ave. East, on June 24th, as her first appearance. The prosecutor has held back the charge, of assault with a weapon against her, though it is also obvious from this picture, that she is holding a weapon in her hand, in her attack against the tenant. |
