There is an interesting little skirmish happening in Kingston between a tenant and land hold company in the area.  Sarah Dawe has been blogging about her negative experiences with Homestead Holdings and is now facing eviction hearings.

The woman has been getting a fair amount of press both in the Whig Standard, national media and the blogosphere. 

The latest article in the Whig explains that she was before the housing tribunal to defend the eviction notice.  Now to me, Homestead is completely out of line bringing a libel case to the housing tribunal.  If it is libel, then serve her with criminal charges, don’t cloak it in an eviction notice.  (Evicting her totally doesn’t deal with the problem, it’s just a big stick.)

 They have already managed to take down a blog that was hosted in Canada.  (It must have been libelous if they managed this.)  Dawe then moved to a blogspot blog, and thus the company really couldn’t do much take it down.

From a PR perspective, I think Homestead have done a truely miserable job. 

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