If you have been following the latest infill controversy in the Glenora neighbourhood, you are aware that the developer, Glenora Homes, has been attempting to intimidate residents who oppose their multiplex project. The developer printed the names of opponents on a large sign placed on the building lot, included those same residents' names in a flyer distributed in mailboxes across the area, and threatened to convert the project into a halfway house for criminals and addicts.
Such tactics are outrageous and unprecedented in their level of threat directed at identifiable individuals. This behaviour should prompt the city to revoke Glenora Homes' building permit.
The Sign and Its Removal
The sign has since been taken down after the city ordered its removal because Glenora Homes did not have a permit to erect it. However, the damage has already been done, and the threat has been clearly communicated.
Consider what would happen if you and your neighbours opposed a multi-unit development in your quiet residential neighbourhood and erected a sign naming the executives of the development company. You would likely receive a visit from police and certainly from bylaw enforcement.
Doxxing and Its Consequences
This practice is known as doxxing, and it has led to violence against those named so often that its use now automatically carries an implicit threat. The developer's actions cannot be characterized as anything less than intimidation.
Blackmail Through Halfway House Threat
How else can one interpret the threat to turn the project into a halfway house if residents do not stop opposing it? This is blackmail. Glenora Homes has not sought city approval for a halfway house, but in an anonymous flyer dropped in nearby mailboxes, residents were asked: “Did you know, thanks to the efforts of (names withheld), an application to replace a permit for multi-unit housing with a halfway housing permit is being considered in your area?”
This statement is deliberately threatening and dishonest. The project is already disruptive enough in the elegant Glenora neighbourhood, which the city is deliberately trying to destroy with its LRT construction and infill. Yet Glenora Homes is implying that if residents do not back off, they will make it even worse.
Could It Get Worse?
It is hard to imagine how the developers could make the situation worse, but an apartment building crammed full of drug addicts and parolees would certainly accomplish that. It is unclear whether the developer has the unilateral ability to switch the development from a rooming house to a halfway house, but it would not be difficult to get our council and administration, both of whom are obsessed with super-densification and social housing, to grant permission.
Glenora Homes originally wanted to build five row houses on a single lot, each with a secondary or garden suite in the back, totaling ten homes where only one had existed before. The city approved this in June 2025. Residents appealed the overcrowded project, and the development appeal board sided with the residents, ruling that the city had erred and rescinding the permit.
The developer's tactics of doxxing and threats are unacceptable and should result in the loss of their building permit. The city must take a stand against such behaviour to protect residents and maintain the integrity of the community.
