karl28 said:
Glad to here that this had a happy ending .
So much for the happy ending...
He's being threatened again with eviction.
Here is the story in the Brockville Recorder and times.
http://www.recorder.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1233355
Vet who fought to display flag told he could face eviction
By Nick Gardiner, Staff Writer
A man at the centre of a dispute with the United Counties over flying a Canadian flag at his community housing property has been warned to change his behaviour within a week or face eviction.
Mark Murray went from being joyful last Friday when community housing installed a new flagpole to a sense of bewilderment Thursday when officials presented him with a warning letter citing incidents last month investigated by police.
The raising of a flagpole at the Helen Street housing complex satisfied a compromise reached between community housing officials and Murray after the armed forces veteran refused to remove a Canadian flag from his property as ordered last June.
"The flagpole went up Friday and they put the flag on it Saturday ... and I took mine down and put in the closet," Murray told The Recorder and Times during a phone interview.
But Thursday's letter of warning left him wondering if community housing is looking for excuses to finger him for eviction.
"I really don't know whether it is or not. But some of my friends and neighbours think so."
That's certainly the impression left with Linda McCoy, vice-president of the Cardinal legion, who feels Murray is being unfairly targeted.
"It just seems to me to be too convenient that they put the flagpole up and the flag up late last week and now this week he's served with an eviction notice," McCoy said.
"It's like they let the dust settle over the flag issue and now they're coming after him. It's just too, too coincidental."
A spokesman from community housing wouldn't comment on any specific client case in a phone message left with a reporter Friday morning.
But Debra Gill, manager of program planning, said in voicemail messages any correspondence to tenants "explains the process and possible solutions and the remedies."
Moreover, the office does an investigation as part of the process and often refers the matter to mediation before taking further action.
"That's all I feel comfortable with stating at this time," she said, adding concerned residents are welcomed to call her directly.
Murray acknowledged his involvement in a dispute with a neighbour in August, which brought police to the complex as indicated in the letter from community housing.
But he said he had nothing to do with incidents in September that brought police to the complex as cited by the housing officials in the letter.
One incident occurred Sept. 26 when he was away from home celebrating his brother's birthday, he said.
Another on the previous day didn't involve him and he didn't speak with police, he insisted.
"I asked them, 'Did you do any investigation at all?' and they said they spoke to the police."
At no time did housing officials contact him to discuss mediation over the incidents listed in the letter, he said.
Meanwhile, Murray said he asked Grenville OPP to examine their reports but was refused and directed instead to file a freedom of information request.
He said police were called to the apartment building because of disputes between other neighbours that didn't involve him. The counties should check the facts, he said.
"I'll do what I have to do to make them aware it isn't me and if they did some research they'd find out it was for someone else."
Murray said he is particularly concerned over an allegation in the letter accusing him of looking in a window from his balcony.
He said his ground-floor unit doesn't have a balcony while a separating wall between units prevents him from seeing into any windows when he's on his patio.
"I was pretty upset when I read it. To me that kind of insinuates I'm a peeping Tom.
"People can say I looked in a window and housing picks it up and puts it in their letter with no witnesses whatsoever and they believe it."
Murray said he has contacted a lawyer who will send housing a letter asking to see the evidence that led to the warning.