General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[ijmorlan]

Highest Ontario court dismisses case of haunted Kitchener building -
https://www.thespec.com/news-story/44665...-building/

This is good news, although it sounds like this particular case was far from succeeding. If I understand correctly, the plaintiff couldn’t even really substantiate the rumour as being more than a rumour. More generally, though, the seller should have no duty to inform prospective buyers of past stigmatic events like murders that don’t actually have an objectively measurable effect on the property. If we require that, then eventually we end up with such events being recorded on title and all such properties permanently stigmatized for no good reason. If some particular buyer does research, finds out there was a murder, and decides not to buy, fine. But to require everybody to play along with that sort of superstition is not justifiable.