How do I fight an eviction?

Your route depends on the notice. For a 14-day notice over a breach other than rent, give your landlord a written objection with your reasons before the termination date. The notice then has no effect unless the landlord applies to the Residential Tenancy Dispute Resolution Service (RTDRS) or the Alberta Court of Justice and gets an order, and you can stay until then. A 14-day notice for unpaid rent has no objection route, but paying all the rent owing before the termination date cancels it. After a 24-hour notice (assault, threats or significant damage), the landlord must apply within 10 days after the termination date or the notice is ineffective.

A no-fault notice is valid only for a reason the rules allow. RTDRS hearings are by telephone. If you missed the hearing because of an accident, a mistake or insufficient notice, you can apply within 20 days to have the order set aside, and you can appeal to the Court of King's Bench on law or jurisdiction within 30 days after the order is filed.

Apply to the Residential Tenancy Branch for dispute resolution within the deadline for your notice: 5 days for a 10 Day Notice for unpaid rent (or pay the full overdue rent in those 5 days), 10 days for a One Month Notice for cause or a notice at the end of employment, 15 days for a two-month notice when you no longer qualify for subsidized housing, 21 days for a Three Month Notice for the landlord's or a buyer's use, and 30 days for a Four Month Notice for demolition or conversion. Staying put is not a dispute. Once you apply in time, the notice is on hold and the landlord must prove it is lawful.

If you miss the deadline, you are presumed to accept the notice. The deadline can be extended only in exceptional circumstances, and never past the notice's effective date. The filing fee is $100, and you can ask for a fee waiver. If you lose, you have only 2 days to ask for a review of an order of possession.

Manitoba has no form or deadline for disputing a notice. You dispute it at the hearing when the landlord applies to the Residential Tenancies Branch for an order of possession, and the notice itself must tell you that you can dispute it. The landlord must serve the hearing notice at least 5 days before the hearing, and the hearing goes ahead even if you are not there. An order of possession is not granted on an invalid notice, and you can also apply to the Branch yourself.

A decision usually comes within 2 working days, and the move date is usually 7 days after the order. You can appeal an order of possession to the Residential Tenancies Commission within 7 days, which puts the order on hold. If you missed a hearing about unpaid rent, you need permission to appeal.

For a notice for cause, a caretaker notice or a notice for the landlord's own use, dispute it by giving your landlord written notice within 15 days. The landlord must then apply to the Office of Residential Tenancies and prove the case. If you stay silent, you are treated as accepting the notice. For unpaid rent there is no written dispute step: you answer at the hearing and can ask for relief, including where the eviction is retaliation for a good-faith health or safety complaint.

A notice is not effective unless it is in writing, dated and on the approved form, with the address, the effective date and the grounds. Hearings can be by telephone or other electronic means. You can appeal to the Court of King's Bench on law or jurisdiction within 30 days, and filing the appeal stops enforcement; appealing an eviction for unpaid rent requires a deposit of one month's rent.

You do not have to move out because you got a notice, and there is no form to file to dispute it. A notice ends the tenancy only if you leave, you and the landlord agree, or the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) orders it. The landlord must apply to the LTB (within 30 days after the termination date, except for unpaid rent), and you dispute the application at the hearing. The landlord must prove the case, and the Board must consider whether to refuse or delay the eviction. It must refuse in some cases, such as a serious breach by the landlord or an application that is retaliation.

For an N4 notice for unpaid rent given on or after September 21, 2026, the notice period is 7 days, and paying all the arrears plus any new rent due before the landlord files cancels it. For L1 applications made on or after that date, a tenant who wants to raise their own issues at the hearing must give advance written notice and pay half the claimed arrears first. You can request a review within 15 days ($58) or appeal to the Divisional Court on a point of law within 30 days.

If your notice of termination gives a listed reason (the landlord's own use, a change to non-residential use, the end of your employment or a renovation), apply in writing to a residential tenancies officer at the Tenant and Landlord Relations Office within 15 days. The officer sets the notice aside unless the landlord proves the reason. If you do nothing, you are deemed to accept it. A notice served within a year after you complained can be contested in writing within 15 days, and the landlord must then show the complaint was not the reason.

For a notice to vacate for unpaid rent, paying all the rent due within 7 days cancels it, unless it is a Final Notice to Vacate. Otherwise you give your side when the landlord applies and the officer investigates. Only a sheriff acting on an officer's or judge's order can remove you. A notice or eviction order can also go to the Court of King's Bench within 7 days, on jurisdiction or an error of law only.

For a notice for unpaid rent (Form D), you have 10 days to either pay the arrears, which voids the notice, or apply to the Director of Residential Tenancies to set it aside. If you do neither, you are conclusively deemed to accept it, and the landlord can get an order without a hearing. For a breach notice or other grounds, you can apply to set the notice aside (the Act sets no deadline for this application) or contest it at the landlord's hearing. A notice given in retaliation can be set aside.

Applications use Form J, online or at an Access Nova Scotia centre, with a $31.15 fee that can be waived for people on income assistance or the Guaranteed Income Supplement. Mediation is tried first, then a telephone hearing, with the order due within 14 days. You can appeal to Small Claims Court within 10 days, where the case is heard again.

The only valid eviction notices are Form 4A and Form 4B. To dispute one, file Form 2(A), the Tenant Application to Determine Dispute, with the Rental Office. You have 10 days for a Form 4A notice (unpaid rent, cause or the end of employment), and paying the rent in full within those 10 days voids a notice for unpaid rent. You have one month for a Form 4B notice (the landlord's own use, a sale, demolition, conversion or renovation, or public housing). If you do not dispute in time, you are treated as accepting the notice.

If your landlord accepts rent after giving the notice, that does not cancel it unless you both agree in writing. Hearings are by telephone. You can appeal to the Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission (IRAC) within 7 days for an order to vacate for unpaid rent or cause, or 20 days for other orders, and serving the appeal puts the order on hold.

There is no fixed deadline to dispute an ordinary termination notice. The notice does not enforce itself: the landlord must apply to the Residential Tenancies Office for an order of possession, and that hearing happens only after the termination date. If you think the notice is invalid, you can apply ($20) to have its validity decided, attaching the notice, and that can be heard before the termination date. If the notice is retaliation for a complaint, apply within one month.

The landlord must serve the application and hearing notice at least 10 clear days before the teleconference hearing. Orders usually say to move immediately, and the landlord files a certified order with the Office of the High Sheriff. There is no internal review, but you can appeal to the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador on jurisdiction or law within 30 days after you receive the order.