Residential Tenancies Act of 1997, was rewritten in 2007, to accept the concept that low-income tenants deserve relocation money if being asked to leave based on desire of owner or buyer to build condos on their rental or lease home (or business).
The 2007 Act however stipulated the home must have a minimum of 6 low income renters to qualify for relocation money. The home in question has 4. So, we had to go to City Council, on behalf of our neighbour, to ask for the exemption of 6 only, to be exempted to 4 units allowed.
The City Council meeting was a meeting called & publicized to see if neighbours approved the proposed condo development. You get a pile of paper delivered to where you live notifying you of time, date, location of meeting. 
If you go, know this , you only have 5 minutes to speak, so prepare & time your speech. Also, if what you have to say is long & you cannot attend the meeting, though it is better if you do, then you can submit by email 2 weeks before the meeting to an email address they give you in the pile of paper- usually a city clerk who works for a city planner.
Once City Council agrees that you are entitled to relocation money publicly, then you can go to the developer (your new landlord who just bought your home), & negotiate how much money you deserve, need, want. 15 thousand dollars is on the record in Canada so far, relocation money.
You will then sign form to say you will move out, say in 3 or 4 months, & they will send a cheque to your lawyer or to you directly or to a notary public you know who might be cheaper.
Find out who the developer is by paying for a title search of your own property. We use Documental Search House. They are great. You can pay & receive the whole kit and kaboodle online. They will search public records for you. Or you can go yourself & search for free. You can also find out things like why your landlord sold, like do they owe taxes & were locked out? etcetera...

February 7, 2010 7:46 AM

Swallowtail Butterfly on Fern
24 x 36 x 1-3/4" oils on linen canvas by Sari Grove 2009-2010 Pick-up in person at http://www.theupsstore.ca/storeinfo.aspx?store_id=311 The UPS 
store on Cumberland street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada...Price Sun. Jan. 24, 2010 includes packaging, shipping, taxes- this will change once the
Ontario tax system is harmonised to the HST...Artist prefers in person pick-up not shipping...(saves cardboard & bubble wrap)...This notice was put up
 in the interim while Water Lily was locked out. I am hedging my bets, meaning, if Water Lily does indeed close its business, then I am preparing for
direct sale without the use of a gallery. At the moment the painting & 3 others are still locked in a gallery & I have no receipt from them of sale. So I must
the 4 paintings, 3 water taffetta bags, zeolite rocks for odour control & c.vprice list business card promo material are being held hostage in hopes of
ransom.
$
900.00    
 
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How to get the common cold...Drop some aluminum powder into the air, breathe it in, your lungs will fill up with fluid...Or, just drive your car, fly in an airplane, go for a motorboat ride - the heavy metals in the exhaust will give you a cold too...

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Cicada 36x24x1 inch oils on linen 2009 by Sari Grove $1,200.00cd

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Cicadas live 17 years , people stir fry them & eat them , Cicadas sing really loud, & a Chinese saying goes ' shedding the golden skin of the Cicada to fool your enemies...' Note: Cicada has been changed, Sari added a gold powder over the orange bits, using Schmincke Horadam gold powder for oils mixed with Eco-House dammar to make a gold glaze- so the orange parts are softened- see pic. at www.grovecanada.biz Works page for updated painting...

"Grove" 24x36x1-3/4inches kama walnut oils on linen 2009©GC on holiday special at water-lily supplement resource centre $900 brand new painting, can be eco-dammared later if desired...

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  This summer Sari & Joseph got to pat VisCount & Commodore the RCMP horses...(& a big hello to the RCMP horse Tecumseh who was off duty that day...) This painting is from that memory...Painted with a knife only...Kama walnut oil paints from Montreal Quebec Canada...Art Spectrum Oil primer from Australia NO rabbit skin glue at all...Painted from memory NO tracing from photographs...Sketch done first in french oil pastels sennelier...will take 3 months to dry then a coat of Eco-House dammar varnish NO turpentines used there nor in the painting process...(NO I don't frame, but I am just showing this in a fake online digital frame from pictureframes.com online service for fun...I like to hang my paintings unframed because they are lighter & less likely to fall on my cats & hurt them if they fall...)

Salix Discolour , Pussywillows, or Elegant Loneliness ...Now $900.00 (Holiday Special) at <http://www.water-lily.ca>

These pussywillows were organic from the Whole Foods Market...When I added ginseng to their water, the roots grew like crazy...Like nerve cells, maybe ginseng helps nerve cells, like from spinal cord injury (Christopher Reeve), regrow...maybe...


I hear the trees speak in colour...gone to a gorgeous master hair colourist who lets me walk with her & her dogs...

My grandma was a pianist , my grandpa was a sports photographer... I hear the trees speak in colour, synesthesia , just before they die in the fall the leaves are at their brightest...& I hear them speak , visually...(some people see numbers...)


Promised Rose Garden, went to a lovely collector, L.L.L.

Sometimes husband's do give you that rose garden ...


Flow...Flow went to Dora...(you could make her an offer though)

Dora is a gardener ... Her vine of antique roses look like daisies... apparently roses looked alot more like daisies thirty years ago... Dora's front garden blooms in cascades, when one varietal goes out of bloom , another springs to life...Dora also has five gorgeous cats who self-confidently prance outside , with the luxury of " flow " philosophy Dora ascribes to...


Bloomin' Lilies at Water Lily 1984 Yonge street in Toronto, $1,200.00 canadian, now back in the artist's collection after being in a show at Water Lily Supplement Resource centre

Shakespeare would say that painting a Lily is ridiculous...Like gilding gold...or perfuming a violet...In fact, he did... Too bad I missed that quote in my McGill Shakespeare class...These Lilies were a gift from my mother on Valentine's Day this 2008...


Pigeon & Baker...also Special price for holiday $900 Canadian at <http://www.water-lily.ca>

Inspired by ' People of the Book' by Geraldine Brooks, The burnt hands of the black midnight lady baker at Tim Horton's, & the pigeons (rock doves) who have been displaced by the destruction of their park across the street, replaced by a pink condominium building...


Windy Sea Cove, curled up with cat...24x36x1.5inch oils on linen $1,200.00 Canadian currency (children appropriate painting)



Barbaro the Horse...sold

Well, Barbaro is gone...the painting & the horse...but we all remember the Kentucky Derby that he won & the Preakness where he broke his ankle...Barbaro fought bravely for his life & though after a year he was not able to make it, his offspring did, through the wonders of assisted breeding...If there is a lesson in prevention, would it be that athletes should not be forced to run major races with less than a month in between ? Would Barbaro be still alive if winning the Kentucky Derby was enough ? Should rules state that competitors must wait one month between races ? A major law change did happen as a result of Barbaro's fame which was to ban the sale & export of horses from the United States to countries who eat horsemeat for dinner...& all horses on deathrow were rescued & rehabilitated by law...