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'They don't respect owners' rights': TUPOC supporters refuse to evict old church site

Property owners owed the group $10,000 in rent, failed to provide proof of liability insurance, He said he was doing construction.

Members of The United People of Canada (TUPOC) are involved in a dispute with the landlord of a former church they were renting out in Lowertown.
Members of the Canadian People's Union (TUPOC) said they A dispute with a former church landlord who was renting in. Photo by Errol McGihon /Postmedia

A man who lived on the site of the former St Brigid Church He said he had no intention of leaving, despite staying at the property on Friday and attempting to evict it over allegations of non-payment of rent.

Hiring Cease Bailiff Services to evict supporters from the property, the group said it owed $10,000 in rent, failed to provide proof of liability insurance, and was building without a permit on a historic building. a church.

Cease Bailiff Services said in a text to the newspaper that the landlord has secured an art parsonage and garage building adjacent to the church but owned by the same landlord. TUPOC can no longer access them.

"Our main concern today is the comfort and non-intrusiveness of artists and local residents," the company said. "TUPOC still refuses to move out. They don't respect the rights of the owners."

One of his supporters of TUPOC tactical what looks like his best and showed optimism on Friday. They sat on the steps of the church, occasionally exchanging insults with passing Lower Town residents who seemed to revel in the group's rental plight.

"The problem isn't the building," said her Diane Nolan, one of TUPOC's directors. "It's about buildings, but it's really about people, because I have an idea. Everyone has a life, but we're crazy about that bureaucracy, aren't we?"

Another TUPOC director, William Comer, is considering legal action against the property's landlord and is "considering his options," Nolan said.

``Don't believe anything he says. He said he returned and posted a notice on a car parked there to notify the owner that the car needed to be moved or towed. , said there had been a break-in in the parsonage garage next to the church building. He said he called the police.

The bylaws had Nolan's car ticketed. This car had been parked in front of the church for over an hour, which is the maximum allowed time.

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