Thousands of Ottawa parking tickets given to wrong people

OTTAWA — When Mark Craig received an Ottawa parking ticket in the mail, he said his first thought was that it had to be fake.

Craig, who lives in Burlington, Ont., near Hamilton, said he hadn’t been to the capital in five years when he got the ticket in October. And he said his 1967 Pontiac Grande Parisienne, the vehicle supposedly ticketed, hadn’t been in Ottawa for several years either, since the previous owner sold it.

“I Googled the address and the letterhead and everything looked legit,” said Craig, a 52-year-old steelworker. “It just seemed really weird.”

Toronto flooding: Parking ticket adds insult to injury after rising water disables car

Tim Rivers was shocked to return to his abandoned car Tuesday and find a parking ticket slapped on it — after pushing it out of a flooded lot during Monday’s storm.

The $105 ticket was all the more shocking because, he says, police told him to leave his car overnight after learning that it broke down.

Hospital parking fees in GTA spark grassroots campaign

You could call it an urban humanitarian mission, of sorts.

A grassroots campaign that John Hazelwood and Alan Powell believe will help make the lives of the most vulnerable in the province a little easier, and perhaps a little less painful — especially on the wallet.

The object of their offence couldn’t be any more loathed, or any more complex: hospital parking fees.

Hospital Parking Tickets Incense Dad Of Dying Child

A father who has been enduring the dread of watching his child die of cancer has lashed back at what he calls an insensitive bureaucracy that continues to leave parking tickets on his car outside a St. John's hospital.

"Having a child in this situation is a mix of sadness, of anger, of just frustration," said Robert Thornhill, whose three-year-old daughter, Erica, suffers from acute myeloid leukemia, and is being treated at the Janeway children's hospital.

Parking-meter Robin Hoods are being sued for harassment

A group of parking meter “bandits” who put money in expired meters is being sued by the city of Keene, New Hampshire, for “harassment” of its enforcement officers.

The city has filed a lawsuit against six citizens, part of a group dubbed Robin Hood of Keene, that patrols downtown armed with video cameras and pockets full of change (video below).

Hospital parking rates a 'tax' on sick Canadians

Rising hospital parking rates amount to a tax on ailing Canadians, says one medical specialist.

A CBC Marketplace report found many Canadians are missing hospital appointments and experiencing added stress due to the costs of parking at their local health centre.