{"id":5798,"date":"2021-12-29T05:58:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T10:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/cbc-news-montreal-tenants-protest-lack-heating-2\/"},"modified":"2021-12-29T06:00:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T11:00:18","slug":"cbc-news-montreal-tenants-protest-lack-heating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/cbc-news-montreal-tenants-protest-lack-heating\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal tenants protest lack of heating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kjf88yax-d8cda2b5a6e45432ce18447fe520af76\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-kjf88yax-d8cda2b5a6e45432ce18447fe520af76{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-kjf88yax-d8cda2b5a6e45432ce18447fe520af76 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-kjf88yax-d8cda2b5a6e45432ce18447fe520af76 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-kjf88yax-d8cda2b5a6e45432ce18447fe520af76 av-special-heading-h5 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first '><h5 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >CBC News &#8211; October 25, 2012<\/h5><div class='av-subheading av-subheading_below'><p>(en anglais)<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-3vphkm-0d30578fbc833f69aeb2aa47767259c9\">\n.flex_column.av-3vphkm-0d30578fbc833f69aeb2aa47767259c9{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-3vphkm-0d30578fbc833f69aeb2aa47767259c9 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_heading  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-325j3q-9c7a5bf5e3a28f8aef71e3d2102f030f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/montreal-tenants-protest-lack-of-heating-1.1291307\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7162 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2012-1025-cbc-news-montreal-tenants-protest-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"CBC News - Montreal tenants protest lack of heating\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2012-1025-cbc-news-montreal-tenants-protest-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2012-1025-cbc-news-montreal-tenants-protest-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2012-1025-cbc-news-montreal-tenants-protest-600x598.jpg 600w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2012-1025-cbc-news-montreal-tenants-protest-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2012-1025-cbc-news-montreal-tenants-protest-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2012-1025-cbc-news-montreal-tenants-protest-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2012-1025-cbc-news-montreal-tenants-protest-450x449.jpg 450w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2012-1025-cbc-news-montreal-tenants-protest.jpg 649w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>One resident fights for three years to have her apartment heat turned up<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some Montreal tenants who say their landlords have left them in the cold demonstrated today in an attempt to get the attention of Quebec&rsquo;s rental board.<\/p>\n<p>They staged a protest outside the board&rsquo;s offices in downtown Montreal, out of frustration over \u00ab\u00a0excessive\u00a0\u00bb waits for hearings on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Community organizer Sheetal Pathak said that many landlords try to save money by not turning on the heat until December.<\/p>\n<p>Pathak says she&rsquo;s heard a wide range of excuses from landlords, including \u00ab\u00a0I don&rsquo;t have to put the heat on until there is snow on the ground.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>The city and the rental board recommend that landlords keep temperatures at 21C year round. But in cases where apartments temperatures dip below that level, tenants must wait for the rental board to address the situation, said Pathak.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6863\" style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6863\" class=\"wp-image-6863\" src=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2012-1025-cbc-montreal-tenants.jpg\" alt=\"A man dressed in tinfoil demonstrates outside the Quebec rental board office to draw attentoin to tenant complaints surrounding heating issues. (Morgan Dunlop\/CBC )\" width=\"495\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2012-1025-cbc-montreal-tenants.jpg 620w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2012-1025-cbc-montreal-tenants-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2012-1025-cbc-montreal-tenants-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2012-1025-cbc-montreal-tenants-450x253.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man dressed in tinfoil demonstrates outside the Quebec rental board office to draw attentoin to tenant complaints surrounding heating issues. (Morgan Dunlop\/CBC )<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Margaret Prince has been fighting for a wamer apartment for three years. She says her cold apartment has compounded her bladder problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0My apartment was so cold, when I&rsquo;d come in from outside I couldn&rsquo;t get warm,\u00a0\u00bb she said.<\/p>\n<p>Once a tenant sends a complaint to the rental board, they could be stuck waiting for months, or even years, said Pathak.<\/p>\n<p>The rental board has no way to deal quickly with cases like Prince&rsquo;s, she said, where the health and security of the resident could be at risk.<\/p>\n<p>She added tenants can sometimes wait up to 20 months for a hearing and even if the case is marked as urgent, it can take up to two months.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0We think it&rsquo;s completly unfair,\u00a0\u00bb Pathak said. \u00ab\u00a0Tenants who are stuck in this situation cannot get justice at the rental board.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0People end up waiting many months in the winter in badly-heated apartment.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Pathak hopes today&rsquo;s demonstration will raise awareness about the living conditions of many Montrealers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0The point is to show how ridiculous it is that people have to take measures to fend for themselves,\u00a0\u00bb she said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2012-1025-CBC-News-Montreal-tenants-protest-lack-of-heating.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBC News &#8211; October 25, 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[281,59],"tags":[242,161,245],"class_list":["post-5798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dans-les-medias","category-nouvelles","tag-delais-a-la-regie-du-logement","tag-droit-au-logement","tag-regie-du-logement"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 02:55:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5798"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17454,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798\/revisions\/17454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}