The owner of a Toronto restaurant that's a neighbourhood favourite is facing eviction from her home after devoting her money to keeping the business afloat., could not have anticipated the challenges that were about to arise when she signed the five-year lease on her restaurant in the first week of March, 2020.
The determination that has, against all odds, kept the business afloat, though, has also led to Sinead pouring all of her money into the business, and becoming unable to pay rent on her apartment where she lives with two of her four children. "My mom has been paying rent in Toronto for over 35 years, often working 2 and 3 jobs to make ends meet, and she has never been in this position," Clive writes. "She has always been a good tenant and has never been evicted for non-payment of rent."
"Her greatest fear is that if she is forced to leave her rent-controlled apartment, she won’t find anything else she can afford in Toronto, and that she will actually end up homeless," Clive writes. "It’s a terrifying reality that my family may soon face."