Fraudsters are infamous for winning — taking people's money, spending it and leaving a slew of victims in their wake. But Steven Morrison wasn't prepared to be a victim. In spring, he wanted a deck built in his backyard and it didn't take long to find a handyman service advertised on Kijiji. When he was visited by a man the next day, Morrison said he was immediately confronted with a request for a $2,500 deposit so the carpenters could get to work. Morrison paid $500, withholding the other $2,000 until post holes were dug the following day. He says that was the last time he saw the Vaughan handyman at his home. Have you ever had to go after a contractor for money or services owed?
Canadian political commentator Ezra Levant is turning to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for help after a United Nations department barred his online news outlet from attending next month’s Conference of the Parties (COP 22) in Morocco.
The three-story house is a shade of vanilla. Its blighted windows and dirt marks show signs of age. It's just another house on the block. Nothing to see. Nothing to witness, except for the neo-Nazis who sometimes visit. Adolf Hitler was born there in 1889. After years of legal wrangling, the Austrian government will have the empty house demolished, Andreas Großschartner, an Interior Ministry spokesperson, said Monday.
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