A homeowner in Etobicoke pays a contractor an $18,000 deposit to finish a basement in March. Framing goes up, the electrician comes once, and then the crew stops showing up. By June the texts go unanswered, the contractor’s website is down, and the basement looks exactly the way it did in April, except with some…
Eight months into waiting for trial, a man out on bail with a 10 p.m. curfew takes a late shift to cover for a coworker. He gets home at 10:40, and as it happens, that’s the night police do a compliance check at his door. By the end of the week he’s facing a new…
It’s a Friday in December and there’s a RIDE check set up near an on-ramp to the Gardiner, cones across two lanes and officers with flashlights walking up to each car. You had two glasses of wine with dinner three hours ago and you feel completely fine. The officer asks you to blow into a…
It’s Sunday morning and the paperwork from Saturday night is sitting on the kitchen table. There’s a release document with a list of conditions on it, a court date at the Ontario Court of Justice on Armoury Street about five weeks away, and a phone with a dozen messages from family asking what happened. Most…
