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UPDATE: What You Need to Know About the NEW BAN on Residential Purchases for NON-Residents
March 6th, 2024 by Simon Reimer
In June 2022, the Canadian Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadians Act received royal assent. The Act effectively bans the purchase of residential real estate for non-Canadians and imposes a fine to anyone who breaches it as a non-Canadian purchaser or as a person who assists a non-Canadian in purchasing residential real estate. This ban is set to take effect on January… Read More »
Rent Guidelines for 2024
November 23rd, 2023 by SNJ
Rent Guidelines The rent increase guideline is the amount by which landlords can increase the rent of units without applying to the Residential Tenancies Board. The Manitoba Government will increase the rent guideline by 3% starting January 1, 2024. This means that rent cannot be raised more than 3% in the year of 2024 with the exception of an application to the Residential Tenancies Board.… Read More »
Congratulations Grant Driedger!
September 18th, 2023
Congratulations to Grant Driedger for receiving the designation of King’s Counsel (K.C.) from the Government of Manitoba. This is an honorary title given to lawyers by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council based on recommendations made by the Attorney General, pursuant to The King’s Counsel Act. The Attorney General makes the recommendations after receiving the advice from an advisory council that includes representatives from the judiciary, the… Read More »
Congratulations Simon A. Reimer
July 12th, 2023
Simon received his Call to the Manitoba Bar on June 15, 2023 after graduating with his Juris Doctor and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Manitoba. In 2017/18, Simon studied German and Politics at the Universitat Greifswald in Germany under a scholarship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. He was also recognized as a Pitblado Scholar and received the Frank Billinkoff Prize for the highest… Read More »
Congratulations Cassandra J. Bueckert
May 29th, 2023
Cassandra received her Call to the Manitoba Bar on May 15, 2023 after graduating with her Juris Doctor and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Manitoba. While in Law School, she served as the Vice-President of the Environmental Law Group and VP of Communications for the Business Law Group. She also worked as a student intern with the Public Interest Law Centre (Legal Aid… Read More »
Welcome Lindsay M. Mulholland
January 18th, 2023
We are pleased to have Lindsay Mulholland join SNJ as an Associate Lawyer. Lindsay received her Call to the Bar in 2011, after achieving her Master of Laws (with merit) through the University of Edinburgh where she studied the impact of European regulation of Canadian organizations. Prior to that, she received her law degree from the University of Manitoba, and a Bachelor of Arts (Business… Read More »
