Story in Toronto Life – The Good Liar
We have been assisting tenants from 500 Dawes Road and this past summer we worked with our community partners to do more outreach. Karly Wilson, Staff Lawyer from our Housing Law Team, has been working tirelessly to assist tenants facing eviction. She spoke with Toronto Life and is featured in their article on the building and the landlord. Here is an excerpt and below is the link to the full article by Rachel Browne.
“Colvin still worries about what Krebs could do next, but she’s determined to hold her landlord to account. She’s been referring new clients to Wilson and her colleagues at Don Valley Community Legal Services, who are urging tenants to fight back. As part of that process, the legal clinic has started outreach at 500 Dawes and at a local community centre. Wilson and her colleagues want tenants to know that they should contact the clinic as soon as they receive any paperwork from Krebs—it could be fake. “I don’t think I’ve had a single case where what Krebs is claiming is accurate,” Wilson told me. “We want to make sure that the people of 500 Dawes know they can’t trust their landlord.” As of November 2023, Wilson had more than 10 active files involving tenants from 500 Dawes, most of which centred around eviction notices and allegations of missed payments. As with Colvin’s case, the numbers never add up.”
THE GOOD LIAR
Carolyn Krebs (alias Carolyn Goodman, alias Marian Linton) may be the city’s most hated landlord. She ignores work orders, falsifies documents and evicts tenants without cause. How one woman is making a killing off a system that’s too broken to stop her