Tami Noweta Cogan was a cop for 19 years as part of the Ontario Provincial Police.

She was first appointed to the LTB as an adjudicator on July 23, 2020, a week before the first eviction moratorium was lifted in preparation for the LTB’s online eviction “blitz.”

In 2011, she got her paralegal licence and founded Phoenix Paralegal & Advocacy Services. This business has a paid listing on Bisring, a site where real-estate investors find service providers.

In 2014, Phoenix Paralegal & Advocacy Services gave a donation to Small Claims Court Deputy Judge Lyon Gilbert for his fundraiser nine days before he presided over one of Cogan’s cases. The case was appealed to Divisional Court, where it was found Gilbert should have recused himself because he was biased due to his “relationship with Phoenix Paralegal & Advocacy and the Respondent’s representative, Tami Cogan.”

Tami Cogan’s claims to innocence:

For three years, Cogan was the President of the Board of Directors for an Ottawa organization that provides legal services to homeless people. In 2018, she submitted her thesis for a Master’s degree in “Conflict Studies.” She wrote about the social injustices of laws that target homeless people. She even discusses the discriminatory nature of credit checks by landlords on tenants. Now she is complicit in the eviction machine threatening to put thousands of Ontario tenants on the streets.

On her website and elsewhere, Cogan claims to be an advocate for people with disabilities. And yet as an LTB adjudicator since July, she has participated in the pandemic eviction blitz that we know to be systemically ableist, forcing disabled tenants from their homes.

Tami Cogan has given post-secondary lectures on “ethics and professional conduct.” What system of ethics condones the LTB eviction factory?