Hamilton Mayor Andrea Horwath is suing her city and her ex in effort to demolish her dilapidated home

As if navigating landlord-tenant relationships isn’t tricky enough, the mayor of Hamilton, Ont., is suing her own city and her former common-law partner in an attempt to empty the dilapidated home where her ex now lives that she owns and aims to demolish.

Mayor Andrea Horwath is facing an order from the City of Hamilton to repair her property at 76 West Avenue North by May 1.

“But the workers will need, I’m going to assume, at least a month to do stuff,” her lawyer James A....