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Walter’s Falls paralegal practices law under several names !

Catherine April Stewart, a resident of Walter’s falls Ontario is a phoney self proclaimed advocator of Landlord ONLY rights and is known to practice law under several names and businesses.Stewart is also known to call herself the “terminator” when she attacks tenants in the LTB Hearings.
Stewart owns and operates a phoney property management company from 117 Bayfield Street, Barrie, Ontario under the name Landlord legal.

The phoney property management company Catherine Stewart runs is from a small cubicle office surrounded by numerous accountants in a firm there, and the building is owned by Wendy Kara of Sophia development Corporation.
These accountants have been known to receive confidential and private legal documents that were intended for her legal firms eyes only but has on numerous occasions received unprotected legal documents on her behalf when she operates her legal firm from her Walters Falls residence.
Stewart had closed her failing Meaford legal office last year after she neglected to inform the Civil courts and the Human Rights of the closure of her office that was on record to receive the legal files from Human Rights allegations brought up against Stewart, her husband Paul Smith and her landlord clients Dykstra Bros Electric.



YOU CAN’T TRUST A DYKSTRA !!
This phoney self proclaimed advocator for landlord only rights has had many complaints filed with the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) for her sharp practice methods of advocating including practicing law under several names.
The Law Society has so far protected the illegal actions of Stewart and has neglected to register ANY of the many complaints that have been filed with their office over many breaches of their own rules and rules of conduct with the courts Stewart has been accused and involved with directly.
Catherine April Stewart is the legal name registered at the LSUC for Stewart to practice law under, and the name of the business registered at the LSUC for her shady legal firm is Landlord legal inc.
Catherine Stewart has been practicing law at the LTB Board in Barrie, Meaford and numerous other cities across Ontario and using the name April Stewart under landlord legal, when she represents her landlord only clients.

Stewart has been known to make many deals under this name and is now very well known not to honor any agreements she makes with tenants only to have them take the matter into civil courts wasting their money and valuable court time for her purposes.
Stewart has also been known to harass Human Rights applicants when she complained to the Barrie police the tenant was showing up at the LTB hearings which is an open forum to anybody thatwishes to go. The police or this lowlife paralegal do not have the right to harass the tenants that wish to go to ANY LTB hearing for ANY REASON !
The corrupt Barrie police have harassed many tenants fore this ex OPP officer and his paralegal girlfriend but would not charge her for Break & enter, entering false statements, entering false documents or for harassing a human Rights applicant several times. Please read the many posts concerning this phoney Landlord Rights advocate.
Stewart has also been known to break into tenants units while being present at the crime with the Barrie police witnessing the act and telling her she did not have the legal right to enter the unit to begin with.
Another disgraced paralegal Diane Smith, has also been known for practicing law under different names and businesses and is also well known to have worked for Catherine Stewart on numerous past hearings.
Between the conflict of interests businesses Stewart owns and runs with her husband, ex OPP officer Paul Smith there has been numerous complaints to the LSUC over her legal practice and her submitting false testimony, statements and evidence from Paul Smith. Stewart has been known to use her Commissioner stamp to sign and authorize documents she submits from her husband when they pertain to her landlord only clients and Ontario LTB hearings.
Under the LTB Act 2006 Stewart does NOT FIT the definition of a landlord and should not be practicing law representing her slum lord clients.Paul Smith has also been known to work illegally as a Private Investigator for this paralegal when he was not licensed to do so in Ontario. Many statements Paul Smith gave to the Privacy Commissioner, Civil Courts, LTB hearings and the Human Rights allegations has statements coming from him as a private investigator working for Stewart.

Stewart has been known to break many rules of the Law Society and Rules and regulations for paralegals and many Rules of Conduct courts and has gone as far as entering false evidence into the Human Rights allegations brought up against Catherine April Stewart, her husband Paul Smith, William Dykstra, Ralph Dykstra and Donald Dykstra of Dykstra Bros Electric of Barrie Ontario.
Stewart is also known for not paying court orders that have been given to her to pay when she failed to show or notify the courts on several occasions.
Stewart had another paralegal lied at the LTB hearing she was accused of breaking & entering into a tenants unit while witnesses and the Barrie police watched. Paul Smith admitted to cowering behind a car when the tenant tried serving him legal documents to appear in LTB court for photographing his unit against the LTB Act 2006.Another crooked ex OPP cop that abuses the system for his paralegal girlfriend.
New complaints have been filed again against Catherine Stewart with the Law Society of Upper Canada who has been known to protect lawyers and paralegals when they break the law or even the rules set out by the society to govern the conduct of these one year graduates who receive a law degree from shady colleges in Ontario.
Privacy Violators will have the actual complaints posted live with all the responses from the governing body for lawyers and paralegals and will post all the comments and results from the many, many complaints.
Privacy Violators has received many emails and evidence that many other complaints have previously been filed against Catherine Stewart with the LSUC but there are no records of any of the complaints filed against her.
The writer had filed Break and Enter complaints against Stewart that were dismissed when David Cass, LSUC intake officer dismissed without reason or evidence in September 2013. David Cass is accused of protecting paralegals even though they violate the rules set out governing the conduct of paralegals and lawyers by the LSUC.
Catherine Stewart is another disgrace to the LSUC when she practices law under numerous names and knowingly and willingly signs and submits false statements and false evidence, in her own Human Rights allegations filed in 2014. Entering false evidence is a criminal offense as is break and enter. No paralegal is allowed to be present during an illegal act for any reason let alone be a party to it.
Read the many posts of the illegal activity done by this paralegal who practices under different names and businesses in and around Barrie, Ontario.
Complaints to the fraud department of the Canada Revenue Agency have been launched against alleged ex OPP officer Paul Smith and Catherine Stewart.
Is retired OPP officer, Paul T Smith doing illegal searches for Landlord Legal?
Ex OPP and illegal searches
Paul Smith is an alleged 30 year retired Ontario Provincial Police officer from the Meaford area. For a person serving 30 years for the OPP, you would think he would know ALL the laws concerning the Medical Marihuana Access Program from 2013, as well as a person’s Constitutional Rights, Privacy Rights,the criminal code and what constitutes an illegal search by someone such as Paul Smith.
Retired OPP officer Smith allegedly misuses his past OPP status,and Private Investigator status when he worked as a process server for over 10 years for his paralegal girlfriend Catherine April Stewart, also of the Meaford area.Stewart who had recently closed her Meaford office, June 2014 after one year and now works out of a small cubicle office in Barrie, Ontario and her Walter’s Falls home.
Paul Smith has done pretty much whatever Catherine Stewart needed done, such as moving her office, process server, 24 Hour Intent to enters with complete unit photos, signing for legal documents, given any statements or affidavits needed and then signed by her with her commissioner stamp, under her legal status as a paralegal, any construction and fixing, has been known to attend and assist in seminars taught by his girlfriend, attend and testify in court for her firm or her clients purposes.
Catherine April Stewart is also known to be a licensed paralegal who is a LANDLORD ONLY ! rights advocate.
April Stewart is also known to own and operate a Landlord only small property management company from 117 Bayfield Street, Barrie,Ontario,cubicle located in the section connecting the two buildings.
A lot of questions has come up as to how the Law Society of Upper Canada can let a paralegal own and operate as both a paralegal and a property manager. The Law Society is suppose to protect the public from paralegals and lawyers who break the law or rules and knowingly abuse the system.
Working as a paralegal, her clients rights come first and the tenant or opposing party has no rights whatsoever! No privacy policy for tenant information she receives from her management company. Can find out a lot about the tenant and use it against them. Can initiate unit searches conducted by her boyfriend, and alleged ex OPP officer and use RTA s20 ROUTINE MAINTENANCE as the reason, as she teaches in her seminars that are discussed in upcoming posts. There is NO part of the RTA act that gives one party an advantage over another but Stewart has been known several times over the past to use the RTA s20 rule to do her dirty search work disguised as a property manager, and have Paul Smith attend court with his unrelated maintenance photos he had taken for her or her clients benefit. Again NO RIGHTS for the tenant for the illegal searches they perform for their Landlord clients benefit.
A publicly known LANDLORD RIGHTS advocate WHO VIOLATES other PEOPLES RIGHTS and breaks any law or rules to do whatever it takes for her clients to win.She gets away with this because of her switching from property manager to paralegal whenever dealing with the Law Society, Landlord and Tenant Board and or any court she attends.
Working as a property management company, the owner must follow the rules of the Business Act, Residential and Tenancies Act, 2006 as well as the Human Rights Code, PIPEDA and the Criminal Code.
Paul Smith as a retired OPP officer should know all of the regulations you would think. Read the Human Rights allegations against Paul smith and his girlfriend Catherine Stewart Here.
Landlord Legal as a property manager ordered Central Lock and Key to enter the Dykstra Bros Electric owned unit illegally as the Barrie Police told her she was not legal and then watched and did nothing when she has the locksmiths cut security chain and pick the door lock and enter Read the Barrie Police harassment concerns here.
How does a paralegal and ex OPP cop get away with these actions for so long?
How does the Law Society of Upper Canada let paralegals get away with abusing the system when they operate under the radar and switch roles and rules that govern each business?
The Law Society refused to investigate the legitimate complaint filed against Landlord legal in September 2013 when Catherine Stewart filed a vexatious lawsuit against the tenant that filed the Human Rights allegations against Catherine Stewart and her boyfriend, Paul T Smith.
Catherine Stewart also filed a vexatious lawsuit against Privacy Violators owner on October 2013 to delay the LSUC complaints filed from Catherine April Stewart not showing in the LTB allegations and the break and enter she committed in front of the Barrie police on August 15th 2013 for her Dykstra Bros Electric clients, Ralph Dykstra, William Dykstra and Donald Dykstra who also have Human Rights allegations filed against them.Read the Dykstra Bros Electric Human Rights allegations filed in 2013 from their ex tenant HERE.
There will be many follow up posts with Freedom of Information documents released as well as ALL the transcripts from the vexatious lawsuits Stewart filed on October 22nd 2013. Stewart’s personal claim has been delayed, and ignored and is still pending in Small Claims Court after the tenant asked for his right to a speedy trial be exercised in March of 2014.
Our court system is a joke and future posts will point out methods used to delay, interfere and blog down our already messed up legal system.
This paralegal and the complaints filed in 2013 will be heard when the Human rights allegations are dealt with. the public needs to be aware of the actions this paralegal is capable of.
The many Paul Smith and Catherine Stewart owner of Landlord Legal, harassment allegations, and the public threat to have the ex tenant arrested for criminal charges is discussed at length in upcoming posts.
New Upper Law Society of Canada complaints against Landlord Legal inc.

Privacy Violators has learned that owner of Landlord Legal, Catherine April Stewart, a private paralegal from Meaford, Ontario, has continued to allegedly harass a Barrie ex tenant of her clients Ralph Dykstra, Bill Dykstra and Don Dykstra of Dykstra Bros Electric Barrie to whom she has been representing through Landlord Tenant Tribunal and Civil court proceedings.
There are several pending court cases and Law Society of Upper Canada complaints already involving Catherine A Stewart and 2 new complaints are being filed with the ULSC of her persistent alleged harassment against this ex tenant of Dykstra Bros Electric with regards to letters sent to the Community Legal Clinic in Orillia.
Catherine Stewart of Landlord Legal states in letters sent to the Legal Clinic that she feels that the Barrie ex tenant should not be represented by the Community Legal Clinic for the civil suit that was filed to retrieve money owed from a BAD LTB MEDIATION deal that was set up on July 15th 2013. There are many follow up posts with the letters, filed documents and complaints to be published soon here on Privacy Violators website.
There has been no new information from the Upper Law Society of Canada on the progress of the previous complaints lodged against Catherine April Stewart, though many phone calls have been made to find out more information from the ULSC .
The Dykstra brothers own numerous residential and commercial properties around Ellen Street and Victoria Street in Barrie Ontario.
Other tenants of Dykstra Bros Electric have been warned of the problems that had been caused by the harassment and privacy violations and a newsletter updating the court news is being sent out to update the tenants on the status of ALL the court cases.
William Dykstra is set to appear in a Barrie courtroom in March 2014 to answer and explain why the 2 previous court orders to pay the ex tenant from a deliberate bad mediation deal that was set in Landlord Tenant Tribunal last year, were not complied with.
Dykstra bros electric and Catherine Stewart had signed a mediated agreement from a joint submission agreement July 15th 2013 that was set up with the ex tenant to resolve issues that had arisen from the privacy violations and harassment of the Dykstras which led to Human Rights complaints being filed against them.
The Dykstra brothers have until March 6th 2014 to respond to the serious Human Rights complaints that were filed by the Barrie ex tenant concerning medical marihuana,privacy violations and severe interference and harassment by Ralph Dykstra,Bill Dykstra and William Dykstra.
A court date was set for March 7th 2014 for mediation with Catherine A Stewart,Ralph Dykstra,Bill Dykstra and Don Dykstra for the $25,000 lawsuits they each had filed against the tenant and the Privacy Violators website.
Privacy Violators will be posting ALL the Stewart/Dykstra/Groves applications,responses,documents,emails,photos and the newest videos as soon as all the material has been organized from the beginning, March 26th 2013,start of the first privacy violation complaints that were filed against Dykstra Electric of Barrie,Ontario in the Landlord & Tenant Board Tribunal.
Other complaints that were filed by the ex tenant against Coin Hoarders Treasury, Barrie Ontario with the Privacy Commissioner of Canada concerning cameras used to monitor him for the Dykstras have yet to be addressed properly.Recent phone calls to find out more information on the complaints that were filed against owner, Mike Harris has not produced anymore information on the privacy violation complaints.
Read these interesting posts :* some posts might still be in draft mode until further material gathered or the court cases finalized.
How to file Upper Law Society complaints
How the Upper Law Society of Canada handles your complaints
How to file Privacy Commissioner of Canada complaints
How the Privacy Commissioner of Canada handles your complaints.

Paralegals and Lawyers should not or should know NOT TO THREATEN parties they are involved in proceedings against with CRIMINAL ARREST, FURTHER LEGAL THREATS or any kind of threat meant to harm the other party or to delay, coerce or influence the proceedings they are involved in.
Landlord Legal has openly threatened an ex tenant with criminal charges on her Landlord legal website while Human Rights/Civil allegations pending ( http://landlordlegal.ca DEC 2015 to Jan 22nd 2016) of her paralegal firm, alleged boyfriend and Dykstra Bros electric owners allegedly have been defending alleged discrimination against the Human Rights of the tenant.
Images showing the serious threats to the ex tenant, Tenant Rights Applicant and the Human Rights Applicant made from the owner, Catherine April Stewart,for Landlord Legal inc publicly advertised paralegal services website threatening CRIMINAL CHARGES after numerous unsubstantiated and FALSE ALLEGATIONS made to the Barrie Police..
Paralegals and Lawyers should know or aught to know not to create “CONFLICT of INTEREST” and if so, to remove themselves from ALL legal proceedings they are directly involved in.
Paralegals and Lawyers should know or aught to know they are to advise clients and not act illegally for the clients they represent.
Paralegals and Lawyers should know or aught to know they are not allowed to be present at or participate in illegal acts like break ins or illegal lock changes.
If you have had any complaints filed against Catherine Stewart of Landlord Legal inc. or Dykstra Bros Electric from your past experiences,we would like to hear from you with the details.
Contact us anytime and we might be able to help you further with your complaints.
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Landlords “Intent to Enter” & Your Privacy
What privacy rights do you have when a paralegal or landlord serves you with an “intent to enter” order” ?
The truth is you have NO RIGHTS at all.
This is the first hand story of a paralegal doing what her clients wants – GET THE TENANT OUT !. Read what Catherine Stewart and her acting agent do after posting of this notice on the tenants door.
Read the post and learn what they are capable of doing without any consequences for their actions. This might shock some of the readers.
On May 24th, 2013 Catherine Stewart of Landlord Legal then at a location at 117 Bayfield Street, Barrie, Ontario had an agent acting on their behalf do their “intent to enter”
- Taped an “intent to enter notice” openly ( no envelope) on prominent door
- Tenant responded within 1 hr back in writing of birthday party on that day
- Landlord Legal ignores tenant request for another day
- Landlord Legal interrupts birthday party – some guests left
- Landlords Legal agent photographs every inch of every room
- Agent photographs sensitive office notes,licence & more off office walls
- Agent photographs other MMAR Participants licence off desk area
- Landlord Legal aware tenant is Legal MMAR Participant
- Landlord Legals agent photographs Legal grow rooms (2 small rooms)
- Landlord Legal takes photographs to Barrie police with false claims
- Landlord Legal files “Notice of early termination” to tenant
- Landlord Legal mediates in BAD faith to get tenant out. Read More
Many complaints and additional court cases were spawned from the bad mediation from the Dykstras and Catherine Stewart of Landlord Legal.Follow the posts related to this in the Dykstra/Stewart – All Related Posts category.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia defines Landlord Harassment as :“Landlord harassment is the willing creation, by a landlord or his agents, of conditions that are uncomfortable for one or more tenants in order to induce willing abandonment of a rental contract. Such a strategy is often sought because it avoids costly legal expenses and potential problems with eviction. This kind of activity is common in regions where rent control laws exist, but which do not allow the direct extension of rent-controlled prices from one tenancy to the subsequent tenancy, thus allowing landlords to set higher prices. Landlord harassment carries specific legal penalties in some jurisdictions, but enforcement can be very difficult or even impossible in many circumstances. However, when a crime is committed in the process and motives similar to those described above are subsequently proven in court, then those motives may be considered an aggravating factor in many jurisdictions, thus subjecting the offender(s) to a stiffer sentence.” ~ Wikipedia
Barrie Dykstra Bros Electric vs Tenant Privacy

The Spirit Catcher (shown at left)at Lakeshores and Bayfield Street by the Government Dock in downtown Barrie,Ontario,Canada
This interesting Medical Marihuana post to watch concerns a MMAR licenced tenant, his RIGHTS and his landlords Ralph Dykstra, Don Dykstra and William (Bill) Dykstra, the owners of Dykstra Bros Electric of Barrie,Ontario. The Dykstra brothers own numerous residential and commercial property in the downtown area of Barrie,Ontario and the tenant in question rented 40 Ellen Street, Barrie.The Dykstra brothers were found guilty MAY 7th 2013 in LTB Tribunal court of discussing private and confidential information with to another tenant.
This Tenant of over 4 years with Dykstra Bros Electric had a legal Medical Marihuana possession and production licence which was accepted and acknowledged by Ralph Dykstra, Don Dykstra & Bill Dykstra all signing a letter which was not needed for the MMAR program being the rented unit was the primary residence of the person licenced.
The ordeal started when the Dykstras were caught discussing private information with Nancy Groves, their very long time family friend and neighbor to the licenced MMAR participant.This neighbor is not only the Dykstra brothers long time family friend but an ex-girlfriend of the person that filed the complaint.It gets even better…she has been under the care of a doctor at RVH for years and not on good terms with the next door neighbor filing the complaints.Groves had been a tenant at the Dykstras residential property they owned for 8 years or so, moved out and back in again to the Ellen Street apartment last year when the problems started. Complaints to the landlords about Nancy Groves actions had led up to them revealing private health & legal information which she was not authorized to have. Barrie police left this to Land Tenant Board.freedom of information requests for the incident reports have been received.
This caused a few complaints to be lodged against the Dykstra brothers.
- Barrie Police complaint
- Landlord &Tenant Board complaint
- Privacy Commissioner of Canada complaint
Involved neighbor in the Dykstra LTB privacy/harassment complaint Involved neighbor in the Dykstra LTB privacy/harassment complaint, Groves admitted in LTB Tribunal to being an illegal pot smoker and had no permission, authority or reason to receive the private and confidential information from Ralph Dykstras,Bill Dykstra or Don Dykstra .Many conversations with the Barrie Drug Enforcement,Sgt Pat Broulard brought up many details and concerns of Groves illegal drug activities as well as investigations into details of known aassociates.
Nancy Groves friend yelling obscenities at neighbor
Barrie police called to harassment complaint
The Landlord and Tenant Board heard the complaint May 7th, 2013 in Barrie, Ontario and found Ralph Dykstra, Don Dykstra and Bill Dykstra guilty under the Residential Tenancies Act,2006 of discussing private information with Nancy Groves.
It was heard by Landlord & Tenant Board member Sean Henry.The final ruling of the complaint against the Dykstra brothers from Sean Henry is shown below:
So what was to be gained from this LTB complaint ?
Only a finding of guilty of discussing PRIVATE and legal information with another tenant without permission and a police investigation into further details brought up from the complaints.
Most landlords in Ontario have NO idea that PIPEDA laws exist nor do the Ontario courts try to get the landlords educated with the current PIPEDA laws.
Landlords are suppose to be REQUIRED to have PRIVACY POLICIES in place to protect TENANT RIGHTS.
Think about the information a landlord can obtain about you.
- your full name
- spouses name
- kids names
- your address
- past addresses
- your SIN number for some
- bank info if direct withdrawal
- job information
- reference names you give
- reference phone numbers
- addresses of references
- criminal record information
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia defines Landlord Harassment as :
“Landlord harassment is the willing creation, by a landlord or his agents, of conditions that are uncomfortable for one or more tenants in order to induce willing abandonment of a rental contract. Such a strategy is often sought because it avoids costly legal expenses and potential problems with eviction. This kind of activity is common in regions where rent control laws exist, but which do not allow the direct extension of rent-controlled prices from one tenancy to the subsequent tenancy, thus allowing landlords to set higher prices. Landlord harassment carries specific legal penalties in some jurisdictions, but enforcement can be very difficult or even impossible in many circumstances. However, when a crime is committed in the process and motives similar to those described above are subsequently proven in court, then those motives may be considered an aggravating factor in many jurisdictions, thus subjecting the offender(s) to a stiffer sentence.” ~ Wikipedia
Somebody needs to get around to pushing for the enforcing of the PIPEDA laws and further educating the Ontario Landlords to have Privacy Policies in place to protect the tenant rights. If it is a law, how is it not promoted, enforced and educated through the courts in Ontario ?
We will follow up on the Privacy Commissioner of Canada complaints when they are received back.
Read the posts on ” A first Landlord and Tenant Board experience ” in front of LTB member Sean Henry