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• Cockroaches, mould, heat: Peel tenants decry rental conditions in survey

  1 in 3 Peel tenants report cockroaches and pests, as ACORN’s 2025 survey reveals rising rents, poor repairs, and urgent calls for landlord licensing.

  Consumer

  Aug 14, 2025
  
• ‘It’s horrible’: Apartment without heat for days during Calgary cold snap, tenant says

  Michelle Bradley, who lives in an apartment building owned by Mainstreet in northwest Calgary, says she first complained about not having enough heat in her home on Jan. 20.

  Weather

  Feb 5, 2025
  
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• ‘An epidemic in our city’: Licence requirement suggested to curb renovictions in London

  London city staff are hoping a $400 licence for renovations requiring tenant eviction helps curb bad-faith actors, or what's known as 'renoviction.'

  Canada

  Jun 10, 2024
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• Halifax protesters demand ban on fixed-term leases: ‘People are terrified’

  Protestors picketed outside the office of Brendan Maguire, Nova Scotia's Minister of Community Services, on Friday — calling for changes to the Residential Tenancies Act.

  Economy

  May 4, 2024
• New Brunswick sees lowest vacancy rate in over 30 years

  A Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation rental market survey shows New Brunswick's 2023 vacancy rate was the lowest it's been in over 30 years.

  Canada

  Feb 5, 2024
• B.C. residents rally over landlord’s appeal to make them pay for $1M elevator costs

  Residents at an apartment building in New Westminster are outraged that their landlord and management companies are trying to get them to foot a $1 million bill for repairs.

  Canada

  Nov 3, 2023
• Housing advocates rally over what they call ‘fraudulent landlord-use eviction’ claims in New Westminster

  Members of ACORN allege long-term tenants evictions were made in “bad faith” at properties owned by Sangha and Harron Investments.

  Canada

  Jul 29, 2023
• Rally to ‘keep Dartmouth affordable’ raises concerns about proposed housing development

  Protestors rallied outside the Mic Mac Mall in Dartmouth on Saturday to demand that a proposed 2,200-unit development in the area comes with affordable housing for residents.

  Canada

  Jun 24, 2023
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• Hamilton councillors support maximum heat bylaw to better protect vulnerable

  City councillors voted unanimously to seek out an adequate temperature bylaw in efforts to require landlords to provide suitable cooling for low-income residents.

  Canada

  May 15, 2023
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• New Brunswick to start drafting provincial housing strategy

  After hosting a housing summit on Tuesday, the New Brunswick government will now start preparing a strategy to address the housing crisis.

  Canada

  May 2, 2023