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  • Human Rights in BC Rentals: Who a Landlord Cannot RefuseRights & Legal
    BCArticle

    Human Rights in BC Rentals: Who a Landlord Cannot Refuse

    Section 10 of BC's Human Rights Code bars a landlord from refusing a tenant, or setting worse terms, because of 14 personal characteristics, including family status and lawful source of income. Here are the grounds, the narrow exceptions, and how complaints work.

    7 min read
  • The Human Rights Code and Rental Advertising: What Ontario Landlords Can't SayRights & Legal
    ONArticle

    The Human Rights Code and Rental Advertising: What Ontario Landlords Can't Say

    Rental ad discrimination rarely looks like discrimination — it looks like friendliness: "perfect for young professionals," "ideal for a quiet couple," "great family neighbourhood." Under Ontario's Human Rights Code, the ad is where compliance starts, and warmly-phrased tenant preferences are the same violation as blunt

    14 min read
  • House Hacking in Ontario: Living in One Unit, Renting the OtherRights & Legal
    ONArticle

    House Hacking in Ontario: Living in One Unit, Renting the Other

    House hacking sounds like a financing strategy. In Ontario it's a legal one. Whether your tenant shares a kitchen or bathroom with you decides whether the Residential Tenancies Act applies at all — and whether the Human Rights Code does either. Same house, same rent, same person. One fact, two statutes, and most of the

    30 min read
  • Tenant Screening in Ontario: What the Human Rights Code Actually Lets You AskRights & Legal
    ONArticle

    Tenant Screening in Ontario: What the Human Rights Code Actually Lets You Ask

    Most Ontario landlords screen on income first — three times the rent, or a 30% cut-off. The Human Rights Commission says that rule is illegal, and the regulation makes income the one tool you can't use on its own. Credit and rental history can stand alone. Income can't. Here's what you may actually ask.

    24 min read