Tenants

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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Nova Scotia

Halifax developer ordered to fix safety issues as tenants move belongings in to construction site

Tenants have begun to move their belongings in to a new 124-unit apartment building in Halifax while it is still under…

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Nova Scotia

Dartmouth landlord switched lease to fixed term without tenant’s knowledge, court rules

The small claims court of Nova Scotia has ruled in favour of a tenant after the landlord changed their lease…

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Nova Scotia

Changes coming for tenants paying fixed rent in Nova Scotia’s public housing units

Nova Scotia is changing the rules for those who pay a fixed amount of rent for public housing, a move…

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Nova Scotia

Tenants of 29-unit Halifax rooming house told to vacate by September

The tenants of a 29-unit rooming house on North Street in Halifax will have to pack their belongings and look for…

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Nova Scotia

New Glasgow tenants left without running water for days after landlord failed to pay bills

Tenants of seven buildings in New Glasgow, N.S., were left without running water for four days because their landlord hadn’t paid…

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Lifestyle

Thorncliffe Park tenants on rent strike in Toronto for a year

Dozens of Dozens of tenants of Toronto’s Thorncliffe Park area have now been withholding their rent for one year, and it’s…

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Canada

Displaced tenants call for work to stop at UBC construction site

Displaced residents of a subsidized housing complex in Kelowna, B.C, are calling on the city to issue a stop-work order on the University…

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