LANDLORD LOOKS TO EVICT DRIVEWAY SQUATTER

A southern Alberta landlord is hoping the courts will help him with a squatter living in a small shack sitting on a trailer in the driveway of the man’s rental property. “What can you do? Our hands are tied and nobody’s prepared to help,” said Ivan Negrych, who is attempting to remove Bob Cox from the property in the town of Cardston, about 235 kilometres southeast of Calgary. “It’s kind of turning into a nightmare.” Negrych said he had been renting the fivebedroom home to Cox’s former common-law wife. She moved out Sept. 30 and Negrych rented out the property to another person within days. “He moved in and now he’s refusing to move out,” said Negrych. Cox says he has squatter’s rights. The problem, said Negrych, is Alberta’s Residential Tenancies Act. “Once (tenants are) in, you can’t get them out...