TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN/INTEREST
August 01 of 2024: past midnight I went outdoors, used my monthly pass on OC Transpo route 46 to determine if there were any issues with it. At the end of July bought a presto card from a shoppers drug Mart at Bank Street and loaded a monthly pass at a shoppers drug Mart at Montreal Rd, card shows a expiry date of 2023, according to Presto company fare cards do not expire and it was actually manufacturing or perhaps issuing date when the cards were sold to the retail outlets. I documented this matters many years ago as well when I lived in Hamilton. Transit pass expiry, fare expiry and Presto fare card expiry dates are different expiry dates. Public Transit users who use a monthly pass pay lump sump amount for the entire month at the beginning of the month, which results in zero dollar payment for each ride. Zero dollar payment can not be interpreted as not paying fare, because of the upfront advance payment for the entire month.
On July 31 visited Liberty tax at Montreal Rd, to discuss few issues regarding missing and wrong information in my tax files. Also received a call from BDO Dunwoody (while I was passing through the St. Laurent Mall) BDO Dunwoody was my first tax filing firm in Ottawa in 1996. BDO at Moodie drive rebranded to Collins Barrow and later on to something else. I still have some documents from 1995 related to CRA and Unemployment records etc which I submitted to Liberty tax.
August 01 of 2024: stepped out of my apt 307 around 08h30, came back around 10h00, found a letter from OCH regarding my request to review. I was required to resubmit it. I have sent an email to OCH to review the decision. I will further look into this matter on August 02 of 2024. I want to remain in my apartment for the remainder of the day of August 01. To avoid a knock on my door in my absence, which may result in wrong interpretations.
around 10h00, As soon as I entered my floor to get to my apartment 307 from ‘B’ side of the stairs, a woman was seen walking ahead of me in the corridor as if she was reading something, she turned around her head to look at me as I was approaching my apartment #307.
August 01 of 2024: OCH is informing me of a drastic change/increase of my monthly rent payment. I appealed the decision and want community legal clinic to mediate with OCH in this rent increase amount. Rent increase should be within certain percentage of the previous amount. OCH should be fair to the rent paying tenants. I accepted this apartment in old building because this was offered to me by the Housing worker of the Ottawa mission and my Social worker Brook Lynn Davies at a certain amount of monthly payments. Therefore increase in monthly rent payment amount should be in acceptable range.
This is unfair and not acceptable to show amount owing in rent file, like CRA was showing carbon tax amount owing, which I have paid. I need legal protection and moral support of tenants council from such drastic financial actions, because I have NO business or employment income yet.
I have made an extra payment at BMO across the building to make a total payment of the rent amount that OCH calculated, I disagree with the calculations, but to avoid complications around the long week end I have paid according to their demands. This apartment was offered to me at a certain monthly rent by the housing workers in 2023.
All such efforts are to deplete me of my limited resources, For what reason and why ?. Unauthorized transactions by a merchant in May of 2024 on my bank account not yet reversed/not yet refunded to my account, that also resulted in depleting me of my money at the end of month of May 2024.
When I checked the OCH website, rent payment was seen applied and instead of owing it was showing positive balance, same was in 2023.
August 02 of 2025: remaind indoors most the times, to avoid any possible knocks on the door in my absence.
August 03 of 2024: Went to Heron gate area to eat breakfast, went to LaFontaine area Freshco for some quick groceries. When I arrived back at the building 1909 Russell Rd. around 09h15, two uniformed Security guys were seen entering the building through the front door. There were many people waiting around the front door. I used B side entrance door to enter the building. Around the same time a security vehicle with two uniforms left from the back side of the building. I decided to check out what was happening in the lobby, I saw some people entering the lobby through the front door with heavy furniture, perhaps moving in the building. Elevator #2 was still on service around 13h15 when I came back to my apartment after a short trip from outside.
August 03 of 2024: A loud thunder ( recurring) was heard around 19h45, no rain yet. Followed by some lightening. Rain started around 20h00.
August 04 of 2024: tonight twice washroom running water sounds were heard around 01h00 and 01h35, never heard before during the past one year. Perhaps there was a new tenant in my vicinity or above my apartment.A
August 04 of 2024: around noon time, some activity was seen in apartment 309, a man was seen pushing something the door, a panel looked like a door of something was seen resting the wall etc. An oldan was seen exiting through the front door as I was entering, he whispered something like you are good etc.
August 05 of 2024: Visited one of my past neighbourhoods, 99 fifth Ave, I used to get my letters at MBE at this address in 2006 and also once my bags were shipped to this address from USA. There was a restaurant at the corner of 99 fifth Ave and Bank St, where I used to go to eat wings or a drink, at some point the restaurant got closed and also the MBE was closed.
August 06 of 2024: I am still in Ottawa,on my way to see a lawyer to discuss and seek legal resolution to some important matters
Buses were missing schedule this morning around Westboro area, on the side of the road where I was waiting. Was it sone kind of synchronization to delay the buses to bring some people out or something else. I wish I was back in my own car as before to be mobile and not depend on transit.
Several police vehicles were seen around the buildings ng when I arrived at 1909 Russell Rd around 15h00, one vehicle was black color unmarked. Some construction work and cones were seen at the traffic light at Smyth and Russell.
August 06 of 2024: I was referred to housing help business in ottawa, but since I have paid my rent for the current month at my current ID address, I decided not to visit their office because I need a mediator at this time to discuss the >5x rent increase matter with OCH instead of filing the matter with LTB. I have a SOT with LTB from the past which can be transferred to Ottawa, perhaps. I am not looking for another apartment to move to. Rent increase should be within allowable limits, more than five times of 2023 lease amount was not acceptable. Also visited ncf and saw ncf staff shelly in person.
August 07 of 2024: This morning I called revenue Canada to give them information about my residence address in 2013, this address was available on T5007 of 2013.
August 07 of 2024: two men were seen working on the lobby entrance glass door on the inside around 11h30 perhaps fixing the handicap push button or something else. Another one man was seen working with tools on the same door around 16h05, few women were seen in the lobby around the elevators, one woman was seen in the gardening/garden area. A big black truck was seen sparked in front of the building facing the garden area.
August 08, one person paused at by my seat where I was sitting before proceeding to the back of the bus with another person in vehicle number 4651 route number 40 around 10h20 to st. Laurent mall. Perhaps to show false association and negative interpretation because I don’t know them but some how they know me. They boarded the bus from the stop across from McDonald’s.
August 08 of 2024: attended a brief meeting with my tax representative Liberty Tax located at 253 Montreal Rd in Ottawa (Vanier) around 11h30.
August 08 of 2024: Fare Tap machine was standby on this OC Transpo vehicle # 6612 route 7 around 13h00.
August 08 of 2024: how many different ways were there to load an OC Transpo ‘s seniors pass on the presto card. This after noon I passed by the Rideau centre OC Transpo retail outlet customer service to get my pass checked/authenticated, the person was not able to understand what wanted him to do. I explained to him that I purchased my senior pass from a shoppers drug mart outlet. But when I used on the bus it had some glitches, I wanted to make sure that it was a legitimate pass loaded on my presto card. I wonder how many other methods were there to load a pass. Around 18h30 I called Ottawa 311 to talk to OC Transpo about it. But when my call was transferred by the switch board to OC transpo it got disconnected, now I will pursue this matter in few days to find out what was the best and reliable method to load pass on presto.
August 08 of 2024: after discussing the matter about the 2013 tax return with Liberty tax, submitted the same to the area MP with my suggestion that the records of the returns from the past should retain and show the address where it was filed, that previous address can be found on tax slip of that year. Also received a letter from service Canada about OAS for the flooding year 2024/2025.
August 08 of 2024: Hammering and objects dropping sounds were heard somewhere above or in the vicinity of my apartment 307 in this building 1909 Russell Rd., around 19h50.A
August 09 of 2024: a rainy start of the day in Ottawa Ontario Canada K1G 3P2, was rainy most of the day, I went out for a walk in rain to find out about hearing aids.
August 09 of 2024: I received a call today from ncf, this was after I visited ncf office on the day after col. By day on August 06, and saw ncf staff Shelly in person for a brief meeting, there was no ticket issues at that time, today a volunteer called around 14h55 and mentioned about a ticket, renewal etc. there was no trouble, ncf (national capital freenet) membership was and is free of any fees, members are required to make donations instead of fees, but not making donation does not cancel membership. I use only email services of ncf since 2006, I do not use the DSL or any other equipment from ncf. ncf was located in the same building where Community Legal Clinic was located. I visited community legal clinic as well on the same day when I visited the ncf on the upper floor.
August 10 of 2024: around 20h20 heavy rain started with wind. Windy and rainy. Lights were seen fluctuating during the rain first ever in this apartment since I live here i.e. August 2023.
August 11 of 2024: today I called roku contents provider to find out if there was any subscription under my name. I bought a Philips Roku set from a Walmart nearby about 10 months ago. Since I am not using any contents provided by Roku or another contents provider, there was no subscription information. I just use Digital antenna with it.
August 12 of 2024: this afternoon I went to Catherine St. to find the housing registry to find out if there were any issues. Apartment 307 was offered to me at a certain price in 2023 after Ottawa mission housing workers processed my registry. I need to know what was the reason to increase my monthly rent payments to more than 5x. This much increase was not acceptable. There was a rent ref /account issued to me on the lease documents, which can not be used by no one else.
August 12 of 2024: Today I visited the Scotia Bank branch at Campus, but branch was completely inaccessible due to fences and barricades due to construction work.
August 12 of 2024: Today I learned something new which I never learned before that amount owing can be positive or negative. When I was reading my rent account with OCH on the internet it was showing amount owing with a positive sign, meaning it was a credit (or surplus, unused amount of money) in my account. But if the amount owing was negative, will mean debt to be paid. This may not be a standard accounting practice, perhaps just the software department of OCH decided to program the system like this. One method to show amount owing or deficit in account is to put parenthesis around the numbers like (9999) etc. surplus in account is not amount owing, absolutely not and should not be labelled as owing.
Such flawed information or wording in a tenants account can be misinterpreted by people and they can start taking wrong action without due process on such flawed information. Even high school kids know these differences, so obviously this was done deliberately by the programmers of a reputable and well known housing company OCH. There was a simple solution to fix it. My understanding after thinking about it was that this is what OCH owes to the tenants, shown in the total owing field, which remains to be applied towards rent.
This “total owing” was similar to “created overpayment”. Tenants usually do not owe rent so why expect this total owing. What that means was that at some point in time their rent changes, payments go up and they owe money without knowing etc. so in my mind it was like created “total owing”.
August 13 of 2024: a man was seen sitting in the buffer zone on the bench around 07h00 talking on the phone in a non- English, non-french language. One woman was seen coming out of the elevator number 2 and woman was seen going up in the elevator, few more people were seen in the lobby after the above, while I was keying-in this posting.
August 13 of 2024:a Scotia Bank branch at Bank st Glebe area asked me to sign a document electronically by sending it to my email. I hope they don’t use it for anything else. I asked for printed documented, I was told that is how they do it. this was to replace my previously used debit card.
Came out of my apartment around 14h50, walked, decided to access the elevators through the second floor, but was very slow, so I took A side stairs, walked to Elmvale for OC transit route 40.
August 14 of 2024: my undesirable experience with A&W fast food Merivale location order#21616.
When I asked the cashier to get the clarification for this discrepancy, she offered to refund me, which I declined to avoid any further unpleasant situation, because they mostly come across some unknown hurdle and fail to complete the transaction, delays etc.
August 15 of 2024: received a message from my contact at ncf regarding renewal of my membership which is donation based. I will send my donation in about two weeks.
August 15 of 2024: People were seen working on the call box/intercom at the entrance of 1909 Russell Rd. around 14h00 when I went outdoors. There was another man checking the side doors, sone people were seen in AIP office on floor 1. A dog was heard barking apartment 103 bear side B of the building.
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{(male) Khalid Mahmood}
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1909 Russell Rd, apt 307,
Ottawa Ontario Canada K1G 3P2
