Rent Hike
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Massive rent hike could force Surrey gymnastics club to close after 46 yearsThe Surrey Gymnastics Society provides instructions for roughly 200 kids from recreational tumblers and school programs to high-level competitors.EconomyMay 12, 2025
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B.C. to let Vancouver limit SRO rent hikes between tenants in Downtown EastsideThe move comes at the request of the city, which saw its own attempt to implement so-called "vacancy control" blocked by the courts.PoliticsMay 13, 2024
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Vancouver fine-dining institution Bishop’s closes for good, citing rent hike"I just couldn't see giving them what amounted to $200,000 this year in rent at a time in a business that's very vulnerable, fragile at best," said John Bishop.EconomyJan 6, 2022
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Montreal-based group creates website to help protect tenants from illegal rent hikesLa Base, a not-for-profit group, says it has found a way to help stop 'skyrocketing' residential rent increases.CanadaJun 9, 2021
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Montreal’s S.W. Welch Mile End bookstore to stay open after landlord, tenant renegotiate rent hikeCommerical building owner Shiller Lavy Realties said last week that the increase was long overdue as the book store has been locked into a long term lease with minimal increases.NewsMar 8, 2021
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Nova Scotia says it’s looking at options to prevent evictions, but short on specificsHousing Minister Chuck Porter says his department intends to consult non-profit housing groups and landlords to solve the issue, but didn't give any timelines.PoliticsOct 29, 2020
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B.C. tenants could be on the hook for 4-per-cent rent hike next yearAt current rents, that could translate to $955 per year for a median one bedroom suite in Vancouver.CanadaAug 23, 2017
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Downtown Edmonton building manager backtracks on $263 rent hikeTenants of a downtown Edmonton apartment building who were worried a $263 rent hike would force them out of their homes will not see the spike in rent after all.ConsumerAug 19, 2016
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Tenants will not become homeless after $263 rent hike: Edmonton building managerThe manager of a downtown Edmonton apartment building near Rogers Place is adamant that a massive rent hike won't force tenants out on the street.EconomyAug 11, 2016
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