Six plaintiffs from Toronto's Chinese community are accusing the same broker of mortgage fraud.
Tina Li is accusing her former friend Po Yuk (Peggy) Chan of defrauding her out of hundreds of thousands of dollars and she's not alone. Ontario Superior Court documents show five other suits have been filed against Chan. Li is accusing Chan of defrauding her out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, by forging or arranging for the forging of documents to put a second, and later, a third mortgage on Li's property. Li claims the mortgages were registered without her knowledge. Through her lawyer, Chan denies the allegations and says the alleged victims were willing participants in a plan to collectively invest in real estate by obtaining high-interest loans through private lenders. The allegations come as title insurance companies say they're seeing a rise in mortgage fraud cases, and lawyers are cautioning homeowners to protect
People who make deliveries for Instacart, the $10-billion app that collects online orders and drops them off at customers' homes, say big pay decreases that started in July 2021 are as inexplicable as ever — but the company says they're just confused. Go Public has again heard from several delivery workers across Canada who suspect they've been shorted on their pay, and offered screenshots from their chats with support agents as examples. The same pattern held: the mileage pay was short. If they subtracted the expected 40 cents per kilometre from their pay they sometimes got less than the minimum $7 per batch they are promised. Instacart told CBC's Go Public its "payment structure" hasn't changed since February 2019 and said the problem is that the workers are confused about how their pay works. Go Public asked where that information is communicated to shoppers, and the company pointed to the workers' contract, which doesn't clearly spell out how mileage and batch pay are related. Labour and employment lawyer Sheilagh Turkington isn't surprised so many shoppers are confused. "You shouldn't have to be a lawyer to figure out what the terms of the agreement are," she said, after reviewing the contract and the workers' pay information. Read more here.
An Ontario couple has filed a $2.2-million lawsuit over a beach house being swallowed by Lake Huron. Michael Bousfield and Leah Stumpf, both from the Guelph area, say they've never been able to set foot in the house, alleging the vendor disclosed just three days before their deal closed that the building with "breathtaking million-dollar views" was unsafe for human habitation. The couple bought the four-season lakeside house perched atop a bluff, north of Bayfield in the municipality of Central Huron, for $330,000 on May 21, 2021. The statement of claim alleges that once they discovered the house was unsafe, they felt they couldn't back out of the deal