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August 17, 2016
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Provincewide

Belleville

1/2012 Living Centre going smoke free The Intelligencer After a cigarette sparked a fire resulting heavy damages to resident Brenda Cherry's apartment at the downtown Belleville facility last month, officials at the retirement complex said they will no longer lease to smokers.

Espanola

1/29/14 DSB moves towards smoke free rental units Manitoulin Expositor Director of Integrated Social Services Donna Moroso delivered a report reviewing the issues in moving toward a smoke free social housing policy to the Manitoulin-Sudbury District Services Board (DSB).

Grey County

2/4/14 Grey County Social Housing Adopts Smoke-Free Policy Meaford Independent As of January 1, Grey County Social Housing implemented a smoke-free policy in their residential units.

Guelph

12/1/15

Guelph-area health unit recommends smoke-free public housing GuelphMercury.com And there is really no way to prevent the smoke from seeping in, other than banning smoking inside the buildings, it states.

Kitchner

4/22/12 Smoke-free apartment will be first for Kitchener TheRecord.com Renters, have you longed to live in a nice, modern apartment building free of stinky, poisonous second-hand smoke?

Muskoka County

10/9/14

Smoke-free housing — healthy, legal and in demand

MuskokaRegion.com While provincial laws provide Ontario residents with extensive protection from secondhand smoke in enclosed public and work places, too many people living in multi-residential buildings are still being involuntarily exposed to secondhand smoke where they live.
9/30/14

Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit pushes for smoke-free apartment buildings

Simcoe.com The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit has a new target in its campaign against smoking: multi-unit dwellings such as apartment buildings, townhomes and condominiums.
1/4/12 Residents want smoke-free housing, says survey Innisfil Scope Exposure to second hand tobacco smoke in apartments, condominiums and co-op housing is a serious public health threat for residents in Simcoe County and the District of Muskoka.

Northumberland County

1/15/13 Improving fire safety at senior residences NothumberlandToday.com "We will be introducing a 'no-smoking' policy in all our social housing units, hopefully by April of this year," says Northumberland County's social services and housing director Mark Darroch.
1/7/13 Local News: Change Is In The Air - Health Unit Promotes Importance of Smoke-Free Rental Units and Apartment Buildings for Tenants and Landlords Northumberland View When it comes to multi-unit dwellings, the provincial Smoke-Free Ontario Act only bans smoking in indoor ‘common’ areas such as hallways, lobbies, stairwells and elevators. The smoking ban does not apply to individual units.

Ottawa

12/25/13 When the privacy of your own home gets trumped Ottawa Citizen Community housing smoking ban raises interesting issues
12/13/13 Ottawa Community Housing to ban smoking in May CBC News Ottawa Community Housing will ban smoking on its property in the spring of 2014.
12/9/13 Ottawa poised to ban smoking in social housing Ottawa Citizen Smoking will be banned from the city’s social housing units starting in the new year, according to the latest plan from Ottawa’s Community Housing Corp.
6/14/13 Smoking ban considered for city’s social housing Ottawa Citizen Residents in city-owned social housing could be banned from smoking in their homes as early as next year, according to the group that operates 14,800 units.
7/24/12 Downtown Co-op first in Canada to butt out Ottawa Sun Their downtown co-op is the first in Canada to go 100% smoke-free after Conservation Co-op residents voted 73% in favour of the bylaw last week.
             Sandy Hill co-op votes to go smoke free CBC News
6/10/12 OCH Eyes Smoking Ban at New Development 580 CFRA Radio News Ottawa Community Housing wants to ban smoking at its new community on Carson's Road.
1/26/12 Ottawa Public Health honours smoke-free condo Ottawa West AMC The first condo development in the city to prohibit smoking in its units has been honoured for its efforts in keeping smoke-free spaces for Ottawa residents.
1/14/12   Smokefreehousingon.ca With National Non-Smoking Week just around the corner (Jan. 15 to 21), we commend Ottawa Community Housing (OCH) for its recent decision to adopt a no-smoking policy for one of its new buildings.Six lucky families will be moving into a 100-per-cent smoke-free building on Crichton Street when it is completed in 2013. This is a win win situation: Tenants win knowing they won't have to deal with the stress and health implications of involuntary exposure to second-hand smoke (SHS) from neighbouring units, and OCH wins too - less risk of fire, lower cleaning and maintenance costs, and happier tenants.
1/4/12 Social Housing may go Smoke Free CFRA 580 RADIO    A study will report back to the Board of Directors before the end of 2012 on a non-smoking policy for buildings run by Ottawa Community Housing, including units.

Perth County, Stratford

10/8/15 Perth County, Stratford Ont. officials push for smoke-free rental housing cbc.ca "We're encouraging landlords to implement policies within their building to have all of their units smoke free," public health promoter Adrienne Adas told CBC Radio Kitchener-Waterloo's The Morning Edition.

Peterborough

1/5/14 Condo complex bans smoking in all units, on grounds MyKawartha.com Auburn Village Gardens, a 52-unit condominium complex in Peterborough, voted to make its building and grounds 100 per cent smoke-free.
Condo complex first to go smoke-free The Peterborough Examiner The condo board began discussing the idea of becoming a completely smoke-free building about a year ago, said Cuthill, the board’s vice-chairman.

Provincewide

5/5/15

Can condos prohibit smoking on balconies?

Lexology.com What has not changed in January is that the Smoke-Free Ontario Act continues to specifically prohibit smoking in the common areas of condominiums, which includes elevators, hallways, parking garages, party or entertainment rooms, laundry facilities, lobbies and exercise areas.
7/4/14 The Smoker Next Door: Responding To Smoke Complaints Mondaq.com However, the recent treatment of this issue by the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal and the courts means that condominium corporations must now act with far greater sensitivity and responsiveness to smoking complaints.
6/2014 Ontario Community/Non-Profit Housing Providers with No-Smoking Policies Smoke-Free Housing Ontario

Quinte

3/27/16

Quinte landlords group declares war on smokers CountyLive.ca Quinte region Landlords are seeking help to butt out problems caused by some tenants who smoke.

Renfrew County

10/29/15 Renfrew County Housing Corporation adopts smoke-free policy InsideOttawaCounty.com The smoke-free policy will be adopted through attrition, except for at 41 Vimy Blvd. in Renfrew, the site of a January fire caused by careless smoking that dislodged residents from their home.

Simcoe County

12/29/11 Smoke-free housing in demand Simcoe.com Exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke in apartments, condos and co-op housing is a serious public health threat for residents in Simcoe County and the vast majority wants smoke-free housing, the local health unit says.

Sudbury

11/21/15 Discourage smoking in apartments: Sudbury board Sudbury Star Members of the Sudbury & District Board of Health said it wasn't an easy issue, but, in the end, they endorsed a motion supporting the Northwestern Health Unit's position on smoke-free, multi-unit housing.
11/12/15 Marjorie Richards defies apartment smoking rules, despite eviction risk CBC News Members of the co-operative home in which 70-year-old Marjorie Richards lives voted on Wednesday to allow her to stay — even though she continues to disobey the housing bylaw by smoking on her patio.

Toronto

9/15/14 Growing movement to ban smoking in Toronto apartment buildings Global News Toronto lags behind other Canadian cities when it comes to smoke-free housing, according to non-smoking advocates who say there is a growing movement to change that.
5/12/14 Sharon MacKay v. Metropolitan Toronto Condominium Corp., 2014 ONSC 2863 (CanLII) Superior Court of Justice On the evening of 24 June 2013, Sharon MacKay and Tom Cheney (the “owners”) became aware of a strong smell of cigar smoke in their Toronto condominium unit.
10/4/13 Pot smoker has licence to light up at condo TheStar.com I am a disabled, licensed marijuana smoker.

Yorkville

5/30/14 Court rules against condo with smoking cigar thestar.com We have experienced an overwhelming smell of cigar smoke coming from the condominium unit above ours. What can we do?

Yukona

1/6/12 Smoking ban leaves some residents fuming Whitehorse Daily Star
Residents in a Whitehorse seniors’ complex fear eviction after the Yukon Housing Corp.’s (YHC’s) new smoke-free rules recently took effect.

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