In Metro Vancouver, more and more families are choosing heat pumps instead lahoo.ca of air conditioners. Heat pump is a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment strongly recommended by the Canadian government in recent years, in addition to the cooling function of air conditioning, it can also provide heating, save energy and money, and run quieter and other characteristics that air conditioning does not have. About 254,000 households in B.C. have heat pumps installed, according to data released last month by the B.C. government.
In the summer, if you are also planning to install a heat pump, pay attention to the regulations of your property, otherwise you may be fined severely!
Richmond homeowner S was fined $11,600 for installing a heat pump on his house.
According to the latest ruling issued by the Civil Disputes Tribunal (CRT), S lives in a building with 130 households and managed by a property company. In 2021, he illegally installed a heat pump on his terrace.
A heat pump system installed outside the apartment. (Picture from: CBC)
Although the homeowners bought the house, each homeowner in the building was bound by bylaws and regulations and acted through the owners' committee to make decisions about the building, including whether the owners could make various private renovations and install air conditioning. S is the vice-chairman of the seven-member owners' committee.
Coincidentally, S was the only owner in the building to install a heat pump or air conditioner.
In September 2022, S was already complained by the property management company that his heat pump had damaged the façade of the building.
The property stressed that he had violated the by-laws requiring the owner to obtain property approval before changing the common property (building), as well as "prohibiting the use of air conditioning equipment" by installing the heat pump.
S was asked to remove the pump within a week or face a $200 fine. If the violation continues, you face more fines every seven days.
Records show that the property fined him in November 2022 and fined him weekly for more than a year until December 2023. At that time, the total amount of fines had accumulated to 11,600!
Although S alleges that he was given permission to install a heat pump under an agreement signed by the former chairman of the owners' committee and the former property manager.
However, the duo said that S did request the installation of a heat pump at a meeting, but that the four members of the owners' committee did not attend that meeting and never received a letter about the heat pump and did not vote on it.
According to the regulations, the seven-member owners' committee must have at least four members to handle the business.
Therefore, the owners' committee cannot vote on the matter of installing the pump for S. S should have known this, because he himself was the vice chairman of the owners' committee.
After a round of legal battles, the court finally ruled that S only had to pay $2,600 of the tens of thousands of fines imposed on him.
The court ultimately found that the $200 per week fine was fair, but only before the start of the CRT process. At one point, S demanded that the property pay him $15,000 for damages, plus that he was not allowed to dismantle his heat pump, both of which were rejected by the court.
Since S was caught up in a CRT dispute in February 2023, the court has slashed his fine by $9,000.
was racially discriminated against by neighbors + threw eggs, and the whole network was angry!
Being harassed by white neighbors throwing eggs and noise, the cause is still "racial discrimination", and the disgusting incident in a newly developed community in Barrhaven, Ottawa, Canada's capital, continues to ferment.
Right now, a video taken by the front door camera of victim A is going viral on the Internet. In the video, a couple is furious with racist remarks. The two were also filmed throwing eggs at the victim's door.
Victim A's home was smashed with eggs (Picture: CBC June 2024)
Mathew Galipeau throws eggs at A's house late at night (Picture: IG June 2024)
During the day, the couple went to the door of someone's house and imitated Asian languages in a garbish of words. One of them even shouted that he "hates Asians" because "they are so ugly and don't speak English".
According to the Ottawa Police update, they have filed hate-motivated charges against Jaime Quigley, 46, and Mathew Galipeau, 36, who vandalized in the incident.
Victim A said that her family was of Korean descent. Over the past two years, they have been subjected to "unimaginable suffering" by the noise and harassment of their wicked neighbors.
In response to the matter, B.C. MP Yonah Martin bluntly said: "This family may have been harassed in this way for two years and has not been exposed until now. It is very important that we, as a society, as a nation, realize that these incidents cannot be tolerated. ”
An IG account with a large number of followers also recently posted a related clip, which attracted tens of thousands of views. Some Canadian netizens said that "there is no place for hate in our community", and comments related to "racist behavior is ugly" also appeared frequently.
Ottawa Police held a press conference at the latest press conference and said that both Jaime Quigley and Mathew Galipeau were charged with vandalism and criminal harassment, particularly threatening behaviour against others.
The charges are related to racial hatred, which means that if the two are convicted, they are likely to be punished more harshly!