Halifax is threatening to evict people living in tents from municipal parks, signalling a return to the crackdown on the city’s unhoused population that was abandoned last month. On Monday, the municipality posted notices on tents and delivered them to residents telling them to remove their tents and belongings from parks. “Failure to act in […]
Halifax landlords ‘skirt the law’ by making month-to-month leases more expensive
With plans to move to Ontario on the horizon, Sarah Frame decided earlier this year that she wanted to switch to a month-to-month lease. It’s a tenant’s right to do so at the end of their annual lease under the provincial Residential Tenancies Act, so Frame notified her landlord, Andrew Metlege’s Templeton Properties, of her […]