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A property management company in Fergus is still cleaning up after they say a tenant trashed one of their units and refused to pay rent.
E-Van Management looks after properties for what it calls “mom and pop landlords.” Jennifer Kamphuis with E-Van Management said in this case, it was a tenant who had lived in the building for years.
“They stopped paying rent last summer,” he said.
In total, it took almost eight months from the time the eviction order was filed for the tenant to leave.
Tim Hortons is facing backlash after hundreds of Canadians thought they had won a $60,000 boat in the Roll Up To Win contest only to find out it was a “technical error.”
Sandra O’Connell of Waterloo said she couldn’t contain her excitement Wednesday morning when she got an email from Tim Hortons saying she had won big.
“I called my mom, I called my husband, my kids and friends and I thought, ‘I won a boat, I won a boat,'” she told CTV News.
Hours later she got another email from the company saying she didn’t actually win.
Bernard Wall, who works in Elmira, is part of a Facebook group dedicated to this year’s Tim Hortons glitch. He said people in the group were considering taking legal action and he was prepared to join them.
As warm weather arrives, there are renewed warnings about sidewalk scammers around Waterloo Region.
Cambridge resident Samantha Falkiner said she experienced a scammer firsthand Friday afternoon. It was around 1:30pm when there was a knock on her front door.
“He said, ‘Are you looking to do your driveway?’ And I said, ‘No, I’m not.’ He said, ‘But it’s a special deal today if you wanted to register. We’re doing a great job,’” he explained.
“I said, ‘Not at all. No thank you.'”
The man left a business card with her and did some digging.
“I looked at all the information online and none of it was legitimate,” Falkiner said.
“The address was a ramp on the 401, the company didn’t exist. He didn’t have a website. It was not registered with the Better Business Bureau.”
Cambridge resident Samantha Falkiner says something was “off” about the man who approached her and offered to pave her driveway, pictured here, on Friday. (Stefanie Davis/CTV Kitchener)
Don’t be alarmed if you see strange new creatures in Waterloo Park. They are plastic, completely harmless and the wild beasts are there to scare geese, not you.
The City of Waterloo placed about eight decoy coyotes around the park earlier this month to test if they will keep geese – and the mess they create – away from popular areas.
City staff say they received a number of complaints about the birds last season.
The decoys are not meant to make the geese go away completely, but mainly to keep them off the main routes.
Spencer Turcotte tries to interview a goose on April 18, 2024.
Pizza and coffee weren’t what Jeet Shergill expected to order on his lunch break, but he saw posters of the new menu item at Tim Hortons and decided to give it a shot.
“It tastes good,” he said, after taking his first bite.
According to the fast food company, with the new ovens in Tim Hortons locations across the country, the flatbread pizza can be ready in around 65 seconds.
The flatbread base is taken to the store but the rest of the pizza is ordered.
Some are skeptical and think Tim Hortons is straying too far from the staples we’re used to.
A Tim Hortons pizza box sits open on a table at the Tim Hortons location on King St. in Kitchener on April 17, 2024. (Heather Senoran / CTV News)
