A good way to solve the AGI challenge.

3 Things that I have always wanted to know...

OMG why didn't I contact ClikFIX FIRST?!

           

      DURAND VILLAGE TENANT ASSOCIATION       

      Not-for-profit & Unincorporated    

   dvtassociation@gmail.com

    dvtassociation.blogspot.ca 

Protocol for Requesting any Service Needs

Respectfully…Please do not contact the on-site office or maintenance personnel with verbal requests.  Use the service request information below ensuring the proper documenting & scheduling of your service request.  Thank you  

If you have a computer:

Best Option: email -  service@ClikFIXresident.com

Because you can cc dvtassociation@gmail.com (for DVTA Members)

Or

online form:  ClikFIXresident.com

If you do not have a computer:

Just call 1-855-254-5349

1-855-ClikFIX

Tips for Placing Requests:

To ensure prompt processing of any service request please be sure to include the following information in your email:

Location:                      Resident address and suite number

Contact Details:            Phone # and name of resident requiring service

Service Required: Please describe the problem you are experiencing in as much detail as possible

Permission to Enter:  Indicate if the property management team can enter your suite to complete the service requested or if you need 24 hours’ notice to enter the suite.

PLEASE NOTE:  In accordance with laws governing residential tenancies across Canada, Property Management will enter your suite if delaying the repair may cause excessive physical damage to the property or puts the health and safety of you or your neighbours at risk. They will make every effort to contact you prior to entering your suite.

 

PLEASE NOTE EMERGENCIES ARE

FIRE,  FLOOD  OR  ELECTRICAL

EMERGENCY MAINTENANCE SERVICE

AFTER OFFICE HOURS PHONE LINE

call 1-855-254-5349

1-855-ClikFIX

Your cooperation and particpation will improve response and resolution time.

Thank you

Your DVTA ...Taking Action to Take Care of Our Community

Meetings for Executive and Membership

      DURAND VILLAGE TENANT ASSOCIATION       

                  Not-for-profit & Unincorporated    

                      dvtassociation@gmail.com

                       dvtassociation.blogspot.ca

                    Your Association with a Heart. 

Because of COVID 19, Executive meetings and Membership meetings have been on hold.

This is a brief update...

A lot goes on behind the scenes with your Executive.  The DVTA Vice President and President have been in close communication...pretty much on a daily basis.  We have addressed members' concerns and following up and following through with Members and BGO personnel.

Today the VP and the President are meeting to create an agenda for and to schedule a live video meeting with the full Executive Committee.  This will be a first!

We will also be outlining an agenda and discussing the possibilities of a live video meeting for members who have the electronics.

The month of May is the DVTA's scheduled AGM.  During this month there are four (4) important items.

1. Membership Dues & Collection
2. Election of Officers
3.  URGENT:  experienced Blogspot tech person for Executive position
4. AGI members for
1. 90 Duke 
2. 75 Bold 
3. 93 Bold has a full AGI team

The Executive will be discussing how to successfully accomplish all of this.  Do you have any viable suggestions?  The Executive Committee seeks your workable suggestions and participation.  Please respectfully submit your ideas via email for any of these categories.

As the wrinkles get ironed out, we will continue with business as usual so that members continue to feel safe and confident that their Executive is helping to prevent and resolve issues.

Please watch for updates!

Safety and good health for everyone.

Warmly,

DVTA President 

This is a dirty subject...

      DURAND VILLAGE TENANT ASSOCIATION       

                  Not-for-profit & Unincorporated    

                      dvtassociation@gmail.com

                       dvtassociation.blogspot.ca

                    Your Association with a Heart. 

YEARS OF DIRTY WINDOWS

To the best of my awareness, the windows in our complex were last cleaned about 3-4 years ago.

The windows that overlook your balcony, are the tenants' responsibility to clean.  If you find yourself in a physical state that challenges your ability to do so, please ask an able body family member or friend to assist.

The other windows are the responsibility of the property management to keep clean.  

Request your window cleaning by filing a ClikFIX email request:

service@ClikFIXresident.com

Include your:

• name
• unit #
• address
• email address 
• phone number
•  
• Members copy in dvtassociation@gmail.com
•  

 If you do not have a computer, you may:

•  call 1-855-254-5349
• go to the main office and request a hard copy form to complete and ask for a copy of the completed form.

Warmly,
DVTA President

The Secret of Success...

      DURAND VILLAGE TENANT ASSOCIATION       

                  Not-for-profit & Unincorporated    

                      dvtassociation@gmail.com

                       dvtassociation.blogspot.ca

                    Your Association with a Heart. 

The Durand Village Tenant Association Executives 

acknowledge and thank all the tenants 

who have reached out to help their neighbours.  

Durand Village is a community of kind and thoughtful people 

who care to share a helping hand.  

Your thoughtfulness is a reflection of your gracious generosity.

Please continue to feel 

the courage to reach out and help your neighbour.

Drifting Second-Hand Smoke in Multi-unit Dwellings

      DURAND VILLAGE TENANT ASSOCIATION       

                  Not-for-profit & Unincorporated    

                      dvtassociation@gmail.com

                       dvtassociation.blogspot.ca

                    Your Association with a Heart. 

WITHOUT PREJUDICE

 

The DVTA continues to receive emails expressing genuine concern about second-hand smoke filtering into non-smokers' units.  These emails express health risks caused by drifting second-hand smoke.

 

The DVTA respectfully advises tenants to check their lease for the non-smoking clause Section 10 in all leases 2018 forward.  In leases, prior to 2018, there are clauses that prohibit 'noxious fumes'.  Second-hand smoke may be classified as noxious fumes.

 

Further, be advised that there are a number of laws regarding the prohibition of smoking in multi-unit dwellings. 

 

Further, be aware that a tenant that smokes may be in violation of a number of laws.

Further, be advised that with COVID 19 conditions, medical professionals recommend not smoking.

Please consider the health risks to non-smoking neighbours and possible consequences for noncompliance with leases and laws.

 

This document is intended to clarify the often confusing debate about smokers' versus non-smokers' rights related to drifting second-hand smoke in multi-unit dwellings (MUDs). On this issue, some would argue that tobacco control advocates who talk about smoking bans inMUDs cross the line by infringing on the rights of smokers in their own homes. We often hear that a person's home is their castle, and what they choose to do behind closed doors is no one's business but their own.  

The case law included in this document should clarify the rights of smokers and those of non-smokers as interpreted by the courts. However, before turning to it, it is important to review which pieces of legislation have a bearing on this issue. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is a bill of rights entrenched in the Constitution of Canada. It forms the first part of the Constitution Act, 1982, and is intended to protect certain political and civil rights of people in Canada from the policies and actions of all levels of government. 

The Charter only applies to government laws and actions (including the laws and actions of federal, provincial, and municipal governments and public school boards), not to private activity such as what is contained in a landlord's lease. Contrary to the claims of various smokers' rights groups, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not provide protection against discrimination as a smoker. The Charter does not recognize smokers as a group suffering social, political, or legal disadvantage in our society. 

Under this legislation, smoking is not considered a physical disability, and this has been demonstrated in a small handful of cases. Every province and territory in Canada has a piece of legislation governing human rights, and in most jurisdictions, it is called the Human Rights Code or Act. Each Code or Act overrides all other pieces of legislation in that jurisdiction unless a specific exemption is given. 

Pertaining to specific things including housing and employment, these provincial and territorial laws protect people from discrimination on the basis of disability, race, ancestry, sexual orientation, age, gender, family status, income, etc. 

Smoking is not identified anywhere as grounds for protection in these Acts, and the NSRA is not currently aware of any Canadian human rights case law where smoking was found to be so. Just because someone exercises their freedom to smoke does not mean they have an absolute right to smoke. 

To sum up: 

• There is no right to smoke enshrined in Canadian law 
• Personal autonomy is not synonymous with unconstrained freedom 
• Smokers are not a protected class nor recognized as having a disability under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
•  Non-smokers have a right to breathe clean air and children have a right to be raised in a smoke-free environment  
• In a small handful of cases, Canadian courts have been sympathetic to the plight of non-smokers unwillingly exposed to drifting SHS in their own homes. Cases have been won on the premise of nuisance, as well as a breach of the covenant of quiet or peaceful enjoyment

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DriftingSHS: 

• BreachoftheCovenant of Quiet or Peaceful Enjoyment 1.Cartwright v. Gray, 1866 (O.J. No. 268), Upper Canada Court of Chancery A nuisance smoke case involving a neighbour erecting a carpenter's shop and running a circular saw, and burning the pine shavings and other refuse. The plaintiff complained about the smoke, noise and sparks produced by the engine. The judge said: “A man may not use his own property so as to injure his neighbour. When he sends on the property of his neighbour noxious smells, smokes, &c. [sic], then he is not doing an act on his own property only, but he is doing an act on his neighbours property also; because every man, by common law, has a right to the pure air, and to have no noxious smells or smoke sent on his land, unless, by a period of time, a man has, by what is called a prescriptive right, obtained the power of throwing a burden on his neighbour's property... Everything must be looked at from a reasonable point of view; therefore the law does not regard trifling and small inconveniences – injuries which sensibly diminish the comfort, enjoyment or value of the property which is affected.”

 

WITHOUT PREJUDICE

DVTA President, Doreen