Firefighters manage to keep Richmond fire from spreading beyond two homes

As if navigating landlord-tenant relationships isn’t tricky enough, the mayor of Hamilton, Ont., is suing her own city and her former common-law partner in an attempt to empty the dilapidated home where her ex now lives that she owns and aims to demolish. Mayor Andrea Horwath is facing an order from the City of Hamilton to repair her property at 76 West Avenue North by May 1. “But the workers will need, I’m going to assume, at least a month to do stuff,” her lawyer James A. Brown said Tuesday in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. Horwath isn’t taking her case to the Landlord...