A contractor left this Scarborough man without a roof. His insurance company is denying his claim - CBC

What began as a simple knock on the front door last spring has resulted in an elderly Scarborough man living out of a suitcase, his home roofless and in ruins. Police are now investigating a possible fraud, while the man's home insurance company has denied most of his claim. Lawrence Huang was approached in late May by representatives of a company called Super Dry Roofing and Masonry, who told him his roof was infested with rodents, seriously damaged, and in need of replacement. The 76-year-old, whom his niece Katie Semple describes as “on the spectrum,” signed a roof replacement contract and gave a salesman for the company a $25,000 advance on the $50,000 job. The contractor went to work, completely removing the roof of Huang’s two-storey Guildwood Parkway home, leaving the contents open to the elements. The kitchen of Lawrence Huang's home, four months after contractors left the job site, with the home's roof removed. TD Insurance has said it will cover the cost of the home's ruined contents, but not the structural damage. (Mike Smee/CBC)And the price began to rise. Semple says her uncle then handed over $1,800.

Patricia Dutchak was devastated when she first saw the wide swaths of crushed grass and upturned soil at Winnipeg’s Rotary Prairie Nature Park, a municipal heritage site. “This is a very rare ecosystem, a remnant of tallgrass prairie, there’s barely any left in the world, and to come here and see all this damage was heartbreaking,” Dutchak, chair of the Transcona Rotary Club’s parks committee, says.

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