[getsmart-l] Paving the way for Pickering Airport: Feds evict man from home of 34 yrs

[Gloria Boxen]

http://www.thestar.com/article/298271

Tenant turfed from airport site                  TheStar.com - GTA - Tenant turfed from airport site             
                                                                                                                   Government evicts man from home of 34 years in north Pickering
                  
                                                                                                                January 29, 2008      
                                                                Carola Vyhnak
                                                                              Staff reporter
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The last item on the moving truck outside Mike Puterbough's dilapidated old home was the wood stove he bought 12 years ago when his landlord refused to replace the broken furnace.
Now his landlord – the federal government – is evicting him, the latest resident to be turfed out of houses on 7,500 hectares of farmland expropriated in 1972 for a proposed airport in north Pickering. 
"I've been very angry but today I just feel complete sadness," Puterbough said as movers emptied his home of 34 years in tiny Brougham. 
Yesterday's move was the conclusion of a three-year court battle against eviction orders by Public Works and Transport Canada, which manages the properties. Puterbough, 59, says they've told him his house will be torn down because it's not worth fixing. 
In an ironic twist, the government installed a new high-efficiency furnace last year and finally hooked it up to the gas line this winter. 
"How can a landlord neglect the property then use that as an excuse for evicting a tenant?" asks Puterbough, who's done countless repairs and built a two-bedroom second-storey addition on the house where his three daughters grew up.
http://spacing.ca/wire/?p=2325  Pickering Airport Background
 
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