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Rents easing across most major markets but many tenants not feeling relief: CMHC

Canada’s housing agency says advertised rents in some major cities are easing due to factors such as increased supply and…

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Nova Scotia

Tenants of Halifax mobile home park set water meter precedent across Nova Scotia

Residents living in mobile home parks across Nova Scotia may soon be eligible for significant retroactive water bill payments after…

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Canada

2 cities, 2 buildings and 1 fugitive landlord leaves tenants in unlivable conditions

A notorious fugitive accused of orchestrating a grandparent scam has left tenants in two southwestern Ontario cities in a state…

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Canada

A year later, N.L. still working on plan to deal with rule-breaking landlords and tenants

Last spring, Caio De Naday Hornhardt found himself in a frustrating situation when he believed his former landlord had wronged…

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Canada

Tenants fight eviction from Halifax apartment building

Floyd Poulain’s battle with his landlord over an eviction notice has shed light on the controversial practice of renovictions in…

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Canada

Windsor landlord says tenants who haven’t paid 16 months of rent have now paused eviction order

After more than 16 months of his tenants not paying rent, Michael Portman was hopeful that the eviction process was…

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Business

Is it a tenant’s right to charge an EV at their rental?

An Ottawa man feels it’s his right to charge his car overnight at his apartment building since electricity is included…

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Halifax

“I don’t feel secure, I feel scammed”: Rent-in-advance scheme is troubling tenants in Halifax

Property management company Olympus Properties has been accused by Dalhousie Legal Aid Service of requiring money from potential tenants in…

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Business

Landlords’ latest tactic in public battles with tenants: sue them for libel

Outside a southwest Toronto cheese business last November, 69-year-old Mohamed Nizam and a dozen of his neighbours stood chanting: “Fix…

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Nova Scotia

Q&A: Bylaws can protect tenants from some renovictions. Can Halifax enact its own?

A bylaw introduced this year in Hamilton has made it more difficult for landlords to order so-called renovictions — the act of evicting tenants to renovate…

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